/alfresco-repo-libreoffice-online-module

LibreOffice Online module for Alfresco repository

Primary LanguageJava

LibreOffice Edit Online Alfresco Repository AMP module (V1)

This is an Alfresco Repository AMP module that adds WOPI host capabilities to Alfresco.
It does not implement the full WOPI protocol, merely the following endpoint interfaces:

  • CheckFileInfo
  • GetFile and
  • PutFile

This module was developed against Alfresco version 5.0.d.

Webapplication Open Platform Interface protocols

For information on WOPI, see http://wopi.readthedocs.io/projects/wopirest/en/latest/endpoints.html for the list of WOPI endpoints.

Installing

First install LibreOfficeOnLine. (See https://github.com/LibreOffice/online for the latest installation instructions).
See http://docs.alfresco.com/5.0/tasks/dev-extensions-tutorials-simple-module-install-amp.html for how to install this module in your Alfresco repository installation.
Add the following properties to your alfresco-global.properties file:

JDK 8+

The page module evaluator requires JDK higher than or equal to version 8.
Go to http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html and click on button "Download JDK".
There are installation instructions on that page as well. To verify that your installation was successful, run "java -version" on the command line.
That should print the installed version of your JDK.

Contributing

Submit pull a pull request. You're also welcome to fork the code for your own purpose(s).

License

This code is released and distributed under the Mozilla Public License 2.0:

Reporting problems

Every self-respecting developer should have read link on how to ask smart questions: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html.

After you've done that you can create issues in https://github.com/magenta-aps/libreoffice-online-repo/issues.

Features to consider

  • Register edit action in audit log.
  • implement option to lock editing to one user at a time.