Edit with Libreoffice in Alfresco Share

Edit with Libreoffice addon provides a webdav link for online edition of both MS-Office and Libreoffice mimetypes

Using

Releases

Version 0.3

• For Libreoffice 5.1 and Alfresco 4.x and 5.x, based on vnd.sun.star.webdav(s) url schemes

Version 0.2

• For Libreoffice 4.x and Alfresco 4.x, based on dav:// and davs:// url schemes

https://github.com/zylklab/alfresco-share-online-edition-addon/releases

Packaging

You may pack it with maven. Go into the directory that you unzipped, or cloned via git:

$ git clone https://github.com/zylklab/alfresco-share-online-edition-addon
$ cd alfresco-share-online-edition-addon
$ mvn clean
$ mvn package -DskipTests=true

You will generate an Alfresco Share AMP package in target directory.

HINT: You also may download a JAR file from releases page to be deployed in $TOMCAT/shared/lib

Installation

• Just copy the corresponding AMP into $ALF_HOME/amps_share, stop Alfresco service, apply AMPs script ($ALF_HOME/bin/apply_amps.sh). Then start Alfresco service.

Registering the protocols

Finally you will need to register the protocol in Windows or Linux according instrucctions and scripts.

Windows

Wiki documentation:

• https://github.com/zylklab/alfresco-share-online-edition-addon/wiki#registering-the-dav-protocol-in-windows

NOTE: You can find a register script for Windows in release page.

Linux

Wiki documentation:

• https://github.com/zylklab/alfresco-share-online-edition-addon/wiki#registering-the-dav-protocol-in-linux

NOTE: You can register the protocols in Linux with the help of this article:

• http://www.zylk.net/es/web/guest/web-2-0/blog/-/blogs/online-edition-with-libreoffice-in-alfresco-5

MacOSX

Not working in MacOSX. More info at:

• https://github.com/zylklab/alfresco-share-online-edition-addon/issues/6

Authors

• Patricia Yague
• Cesar Capillas