Integrate Alfresco with MS Office 2002

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fromvenky

Hi,

We would like to integrate Alfresco with a desktop environment running MSOffice 2002. We have had a look to the new Office 2003 Plugin Alfresco provides. Is Alfresco support Office 2002? we are ready to rewrite the code looking at the logic written for MS Office 2003

We are using VS.NET 2005 , MS Office 2002

mikeh

Hi

Alfresco currently has no plans to provide add-ins for MSOffice 2002.

If you want to undertake this, I suggest you grab the Office 2003 add-in source code to become familiar with it, also read up on Visual Studio Tools for Office. A good resource for the latter is the MSDN forum here:
http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/showforum.aspx?forumid=16&siteid=1

You should only need to change the Office application-specific code in a couple of classes in the add-in client (do a diff on Word and Excel to help see these). The web scripts are completely reusable, as are most of the configuration and authentication parts.

Good luck!
Mike