On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Dale Amon <amon(a)vnl.com> wrote:
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 11:42:15PM -0400, Sergiu
Dumitriu wrote:
A few comments on human factors. Although this looks like it
might be exactly what I want, for a person unfamiliar with
the terminology it is not at all clear how to proceed.
In Administer Wiki, I see Applications, but the only
thing which
seems to pop out is 'Extension Manager' which claims to not really
be safe to use yet. And it is not clear where an extension is
synonymous with a plugin, which is what the OfficeImporter is
documented as being.
You missed the "OpenOffice Server" administration section? From there
you can start the OpenOffice server, which is used by the office
importer module to import/convert office documents. Of course, you
need to configure the OpenOffice server connection first, and this is
described on
http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Office+Importer+Applic…
(there is a link to this page from
http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/Features/OfficeImporter ).
A search on my Wiki comes up with a blank on 'Plugin'.
On the XWiki document URL, there is no link that tells
you
how to download and install the plug in on your own XWiki,
at least not that I have seen.
Office importer is listed as one of the platform features which means
it is available by default. You don't have to install anything. Also,
on
http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Office+Importer+Applic…
, in the information box on the top right corner, it is written that
this application is bundled with XWiki Enterprise so you don't have to
install it either.
I imagine this is the way a lot of new users will hit the
issue of plugins; while I may find out how by doing some
hours of RTFM, it just seems there should be something
simple and obvious on my xwiki for installing a plug in
as an administrator. Maybe there is and it is just a matter
of unfamiliar terminology.
The steps you should take are:
1. Install (if you don't have it already) OpenOffice or LibreOffice on
the machine where XWiki Enterprise runs. Note that there was an issue
with the latest versions of both office servers,
http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-6832 , which was fixed
recently in our code. So you either install on older version of
OpenOffice/LibreOffice (e.g. 3.2) or use the latest XWiki Enterprise
3.2 snapshot (becuse 3.2M3 wasn't released yet).
2. Configure the connection to the office server as described on
http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Office+Importer+Applic…
(you have to edit xwiki.properties and restart the XWiki Enterprise
server).
3. Connect/start to the office server from the "OpenOffice Server"
administration section.
4. Use the Import menu from the WYSIWYG editor.
Hope this helps,
Marius
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