Office 2003-Plugin as Client not working

[mcdroemmel]

Hello,

i installed Alfresco server and accessing it with the web client works fine. now i installed the office 2003 plug in, but i've problems configure and using it.
The installer works fine and without erros. After that i start Excel, Powerpoint and Word.
First of all, it seems that the plugin is not installed in Word, because there is no alfresco button in the toolbar as it is in Powerpoint and Excel.
As mentioned in Excel und Powerpoint there is an alfresco-button in the toolbar. Clicking it for the first time, i supplied the URL for the Webclient (do i also have to supply values for web-dav and cf..?). I also entered my username and password for alfresco. But after saving the plugin seems to loop in the plugin. the popup is always refreshing and is not closing correctly or anything else. the only option is to close the popup with the 'x' in upper right. Clicking the alfresco button after that again, the popup window show directly the same behavior. It seems to loop inside because the screen inside the popup-window is always refreshing but nothing else happens.

I already tried deinstall, reinstall. No result.

I have Win XP SP2,
i used "alfresco-community-office2003-addins-2.1.0.zip" for installing the office-plug in and the alfreso-server is of "Alfresco-Labs-3a.r1032-Full-Setup.exe"

Any ideas?

regards
mcd

[mikeh]

It's a known bug, discussed previously on these forums. Grab a new version of the client from the nightly build server, or SVN.

Also see the wiki article on configuration: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Microsoft_Office

As you're using v3.0, you may also be interested in our SharePoint protocol integration. Please see the wiki for more information.

Thanks,
Mike

[mcdroemmel]

Many thanks,

works now better in Excel and Powerpoint. I can now access the Alfresco-Server. But in Word 2003 there is now an alfresco-Button, but the behavior is the same as  before in the office-plugin for alfresco 2.2 for Excel and Powerpoint. The popup refreshes and refreshes after opening, so i only can close the dialog.
additionaly i have a problem with the now better working plugin in Powerpoint and Excel. If i want to download a file from Alfresco or to upload a file to Alfresco an authentication popup appears, asking for login into the vti-server. Using user/password for alfresco-user doesn't work. I always get an authenticaion failure.
What can i do here?

regards
mcd

[mikeh]

It sounds like there's been a regression bug introduced on the 3.0 Beta.

Please raise the issue in JIRA giving as many details as possible.


Many thanks,
Mike