Problem with MS Word Add-In

[aouser]

After upgrading from Alfresco 2.0 to 2.1 (Windows XP Prof., Tomcat 5.5.20, MySQL 5.0), I installed the MS Word Add-In 2.1.0. Alfresco is working well but the Word Add-In not.
My configurations seems to be correct because they are working with the Firefox:
Web client URL: http://localhost:8080/alfresco/
WebDAV URL: http://localhost:8080/alfresco/webdav/

After clicking "Save Settings" in the Word Add-In, I get the error message 404 with the description
"The requested resource (/alfresco/wcservice/office/myAlfresco) is not available."

–> Where is the wcservice located? Can I check the physical existence of a file?
–> May be the problem is an incomplete Alfresco upgrade? I didn't make any database upgrades although it is described in the release notes: "There are changes to the database schema" (http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Release_2.1#Important_Notes)

[mikeh]

Hi,

Sounds like the upgrade didn't quite take for some reason - how exactly did you go about it?

To test the Office web scripts are installed correctly, browse to:

http://[server]:8080/alfresco/wcservice/office/myAlfresco‍

with any web browser you like. You should be directed through the normal login page and then see the Office UI.


Mike

[aouser]

Hi Mike,

the Office web scripts URL causes the same error message:
HTTP Status 404 - /alfresco/wcservice/office/myAlfresco
description The requested resource (/alfresco/wcservice/office/myAlfresco) is not available.

For the upgrade I downloaded alfresco-community-war-2.1.0.zip and did the following steps:
- replace the old *.war file from …\tomcat\webapps\alfresco.war
- backup of changed extension files from …\tomcat\shared\classes\alfresco\extension
- copy/replace new extension files
- delete temporary files from tomcat/temp and tomcat/work
- start Alfresco

Carmen

[mikeh]

Hi,

Sounds like you need to delete the webapps/alfresco folder too so Tomcat redeploys the .war correctly.

Thanks,
Mike

[aouser]

Hi Mike,

yes, Alfresco wasn't deployed correctly. Thanks!
But I've now a new problem:

…
14:10:19,115 INFO  [org.alfresco.repo.admin.ConfigurationChecker] The Alfresco root data directory ('dir.root') is: D:programmeAlfresco2.0alf_data
14:10:19,130 ERROR [org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader] Context initialization failed
org.alfresco.error.AlfrescoRuntimeException: The store 'archive://SpacesStore' has a duplicate root node entry.
   at org.alfresco.repo.admin.ConfigurationChecker.check(ConfigurationChecker.java:268)
   at org.alfresco.repo.admin.ConfigurationChecker.access$000(ConfigurationChecker.java:72)
   at org.alfresco.repo.admin.ConfigurationChecker$1.execute(ConfigurationChecker.java:178)
…
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Can you help me with this issue? Thanks!

Regards,
Carmen.

[mikeh]

Can you try rebuilding the Lucene indexes…

(taken from this topic)


Step 1: Stop Alfresco
Step 2: Delete everything under

<ALFRESCO_HOME>/alf_data/lucene-indexes‍

Step 3: Edit the following property file:

<ALRESCO_HOME>/tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/repository.properties‍

Set the property index.recovery.mode as follows:

# The index recovery mode (NONE, VALIDATE, AUTO, FULL)
index.recovery.mode=FULL
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Step 4: Start Alfresco

Watch the log file, alfresco will rebuild the lucene index. You may also want to set index.recovery.mode back to VALIDATE.

Thanks,
Mike

[aouser]

Hi,

yes, rebuilding the Lucene indexes fixed the problem. Thank you!

The Word Add-In is displayed but the login page loops (as described in http://forums.alfresco.com/viewtopic.php?t=7755&highlight=word+addin).
The loop can be stopped while right clicking on the login page to open the properties.

My next problem  :? is an error when saving the current Word document to Alfresco (Action "Save to Alfresco"): a small popup window tells me: "Unable to save the document to Alfresco. This is not a valid filename. Try the following options:
- check the path
- choose a file from the list"

The CIFS Server is configured as
\\<server>_a\alfresco\User Homes\cvo\
with user and password. (The CIFS access works within the IE correctly)

Thanks and regards,
Carmen.

[mikeh]

Unfortunately you've hit the authentication bug in the Microsoft Office API - see http://forums.alfresco.com/viewtopic.php?p=26869#26869 for details.


Mike