27 Jan
2009
27 Jan
'09
11:36 a.m.
Hi,
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Asiri Rathnayake <
asiri.rathnayake(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Guillaume,
Another thing I've been wondering about: should we keep a copy of the
Exactly :-) But as I stated it, this might make more sense for presentations
and spreadsheets than for text since the WYSIWYG editor is meant to let the
user edit text in the wiki.
original office document attached to the wiki
page it has been converted
to?
It could be useful in some cases, when using a wiki page as a displayer
for
a document that can be edited through webdav in
its original format and
displayed on a wiki page for quick view... But maybe that makes more
sense
for presentations than for Word documents. [I
know this is akin to thread
hijacking - please move this part in another thread if planning a lengthy
answer ;-)]
Ok, only now I realized what you meant.... yes this would be great! For an
example on a wiki page someone would put:
$officeimporter.importDocument($doc.fullName, "test.doc", true)
and the return string would be xwiki 2.0 code for test.doc. (the final
boolean flag is used to differentiate between html and xwiki2.0) This coupled with webdav would make page editing
really easy. There are
several issues we need to be concerned about:
1. Requires a live oo server running all the time. (ok)
2. Officeimporter will be invoked each time the page is loaded (not good)
I could see 2 solutions:
1. Caching + a "force refresh" button included in the macro that calls
the document (I don't know how hard this is to do)
2. Use the non-filtered xhmtl output to soften the server load a bit
User will hit the button repeatedly only in near real-time situations, when
they want to see their work online right away. Thus heavy load happens only
for a short period of time. When they're done working, the document is
cached and it renders as a classic wiki page.
3. Requires webdav ui integration. (ok)
My concern is point 2, which is too much of an overhead.
WDYT?
In any case, that's not a priority. I've got a couple other ideas regarding
improvements we could bring to the Office Importer, I'll start a new thread
to discuss them.
Guillaume
Thanks.
- Asiri
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