Opening Excel and PPT via WebDAV using add-in

[tonytony]

I think I have a windows or IE configuration issue.

Using XP SP2 and Office 2003 SP2 and a very recent office add-in downloaded via SVN and IE 6.0


When I open a document in Word everything works as expected, it opens read-write in word via the webDAV protocal , the file locks, and I can save a changed document with the file unlocking and versioning working.

When I open a file in excel using the plugin it downloads the file using Internet Explorer and the httprotocal and originally opened read-only in the browser. Using a few registry tweaks, i got it to open in excel but again read only, with the add-in not recognizing the file as "managed by alfresco". I can open the file R/W via webdav, but the add-in is a little flaky. It will crash if I try to do versioning and it shows the file as locked but dosen't recogonize that I have the check-out version in excel.

PowerPoint has similar issues with excel, only it downloads via IE and opens up in PPT but only as a slide show, I cannot edit it at all.

I think this is a IE configuration issue, but haven't figured out how to fix.

Thank for your time.

[invantix]

Good spot! Sorry, I'd forgotten those messages were new in V2.9.

You'll also need office-addin-context.xml from projects/web-client/config/alfresco (the parent folder to the .properties file) which will bootstrap the messages file into Spring.

Thanks,
Mike

That file did not load the message properties so I added a line to another file for now (I know it is a hack but it worked).
I added this line <value>alfresco.messages.office-addin</value>  to the file action-services-context.xml as shown below

   <bean id="actionResourceBundles" class="org.alfresco.i18n.ResourceBundleBootstrapComponent">
       <property name="resourceBundles">
          <list>
             <value>alfresco.messages.action-service</value>
             <value>alfresco.messages.action-config</value>
                <value>alfresco.messages.office-addin</value>
      </list>
       </property>
   </bean>
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I also had to copy of the missing images from /images/office and the new css files.  Now everything is working fine!