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MS Office integration - blinking...

wit

Hi everybody!

I've tried to use Alfresco integration with MS Office, but…

I have installed Integration sowtware ( http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=143373&package_id=237030&release_id=524564 ), configured Web Client URL - but then I press Alfresco Icon in MS Word (2003) - window with Alfresco login blinks (refreshing?) - and there no possibility to enter password or press Enter.

Someone have experience with such kind of problem?

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mikeh

Hi

Please try the latest client add-in, available here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=143373&package_id=237030&release_id=560429

Thanks,
Mike

wit

Hi

Please try the latest client add-in, available here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=143373&package_id=237030&release_id=560429

Thanks,
Mike

Thank you, now I can login. But… On any click on any space:

HTTP Status 404 - /alfresco/jsp/login.jsp/wcservice/office/documentDetails

——————————————————————————–

type Status report

message /alfresco/jsp/login.jsp/wcservice/office/documentDetails

description The requested resource (/alfresco/jsp/login.jsp/wcservice/office/documentDetails) is not available.

——————————————————————————–

Apache Tomcat/5.5.23

——————————————
There is some Alfresco version problem?

mikeh

What did you configure the add-in URLs as?

Web Client URL should look like:

http://<server>:8080/alfresco/‍

Mike

sacco

Hi

Please try the latest client add-in, available here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=143373&package_id=237030&release_id=560429

Thanks,
Mike

Hi Mike,

Does this mean that the latest plugins for 2.9 will still work with 2.1 or 2.2.0dev?

mikeh

Does this mean that the latest plugins for 2.9 will still work with 2.1 or 2.2.0dev?

Yes - they're all compatible.

Thanks,
Mike

sacco

Good! Thanks for the speedy reply!

wit

What did you configure the add-in URLs as?

Web Client URL should look like:
http://<server>:8080/alfresco/‍
Mike

Thank you! Now it works!

I have entered

http://<server>:8080/alfresco/faces/jsp/browse/browse.jsp‍

before…

wit

New problem - i can't open Word document

[img]http://photos.fotki.lv/photos/4/W0001974/000197346/000019734501_%23_3_%23_WitLV.jpg[/img]

That file is not corrupted - i can open it in Alfresco in browser.

sacco

Hello again Mike,

Yes - they're all compatible.

The latest modules management also tool seems to be backward compatible
with everything.

Would you happen to know if this also applies to the other stuff (some of
which tends to appear without a version number) like the PHP integration /
PHP client library / Web service client / blog integration?

The Records Management hasn't actually changed since the middle of last
year, but I haven't seen in import properly into anything since the official 2.1
Community release: (the bug is listed on the JIRA).

mikeh

New problem - i can't open Word document

That file is not corrupted - i can open it in Alfresco in browser.

Possibly an Office bug involving CIFS authentication - are you using WebDAV or CIFS (i.e. did you populate the CIFS text box?)

Thanks,
Mike

mikeh

Hello again Mike,

Yes - they're all compatible.

The latest modules management also tool seems to be backward compatible
with everything.

Would you happen to know if this also applies to the other stuff (some of
which tends to appear without a version number) like the PHP integration /
PHP client library / Web service client / blog integration?

The Records Management hasn't actually changed since the middle of last
year, but I haven't seen in import properly into anything since the official 2.1
Community release: (the bug is listed on the JIRA).

In general it's best to assume they're not.

Mike

P.S. Also, please try not to hijack threads 😉

sacco

In general it's best to assume they're not.

Thanks, that was more or less my guess, although with the client libraries there's less at stake in the sense that they're likely either to work or else to break obviously without any collateral damage.

wit

New problem - i can't open Word document

That file is not corrupted - i can open it in Alfresco in browser.
Possibly an Office bug involving CIFS authentication - are you using WebDAV or CIFS (i.e. did you populate the CIFS text box?)

Thanks,
Mike

No, I haven't entered there some values.
Should I install some client/server parts of CIFS? Is there some description of that installation/configuration?

mikeh

No - you should be fine using WebDAV.

Have you tried loading an Office document using WebDAV via Windows Explorer? Do you happen to have a proxy server between you and the Alfresco server?

Mike

wit

No - you should be fine using WebDAV.

Have you tried loading an Office document using WebDAV via Windows Explorer? Do you happen to have a proxy server between you and the Alfresco server?

Mike

ops: I think "loading an Office document using WebDAV via Windows Explorer" is not the same with read/write files from/to some network place, isn't it? Is that Web Folder some special organized folder? How can check that possibility?

There is no proxy between me and Alfresco.

sacco

Yes - they're all compatible.

As far as I can tell, the tasks pane in the latest nightly build of the Office
2003 plugin can see nothing at all when run against either the 2.1 Community
release, or the last public nightly build of 2.2.0dev .

I start an advanced workflow in one instance, but the assignee never sees
anything in his instance, although the task does show up in the Web client.

mikeh

ops: I think "loading an Office document using WebDAV via Windows Explorer" is not the same with read/write files from/to some network place, isn't it? Is that Web Folder some special organized folder? How can check that possibility?

There is no proxy between me and Alfresco.

In Windows Explorer, create a new Network Place and browse to

http://<server>:8080/alfresco/webdav‍

Explorer knows how to speak WebDAV, so it should appear like a normal network drive.

Thanks,
Mike

mikeh

As far as I can tell, the tasks pane in the latest nightly build of the Office
2003 plugin can see nothing at all when run against either the 2.1 Community
release, or the last public nightly build of 2.2.0dev .

I start an advanced workflow in one instance, but the assignee never sees
anything in his instance, although the task does show up in the Web client.

Well the web scripts won't have changed and are completely independent of the actual add-in client, so I suspect there's something else going on there. Updating the client software has no effect on workflow, tasks, etc.

You can prove this for yourself by browsing to

http://<server>:8080/alfresco/wcservice/office/myAlfresco?p=‍

…although loading and saving of documents will throw Javascript errors due to the client code not being hooked into the browser, the basic information will be there as this is effectively the UI for the Office add-ins.

I've noticed you mention this before: you say you're running 2.2.0dev - presumably that was grabbed from our nightly build server before Christmas? If so, you're actually running a (very!) early version of 2.9 Labs before we updated version numbers. You might want to consider updating to 2.9B if you're in a position to do so. It's certainly not an early version of 2.2 Enterprise that's about to be released, so I wouldn't want you to confuse it like that.

Thanks,
Mike

sacco

I've noticed you mention this before: you say you're running 2.2.0dev -
presumably that was grabbed from our nightly build server before
Christmas? If so, you're actually running a (very!) early version of 2.9
Labs before we updated version numbers. You might want to consider
updating to 2.9B if you're in a position to do so. It's certainly not an early
version of 2.2 Enterprise that's about to be released, so I wouldn't want
you to confuse it like that.

It was the last nightly labelled 2.2.0dev (end of October), although there
was also a 2.9 nightly build available concurrently, but that was probably
just some confusion during the switch over.

The only reason I changed to that was that there were some bugs
blocking me in the 2.1 release that it fixed, but I was aiming to fix a build
and work from that rather than having a constantly moving target.
However, given your comment, I'd probably better migrate that system to
2.9B or a recent nightly within the next week or two. A pity I'm so busy
today…

Thanks, that information about the relationship between this build and the
recent developments is the most useful tip yet!

wit

ops: I think "loading an Office document using WebDAV via Windows Explorer" is not the same with read/write files from/to some network place, isn't it? Is that Web Folder some special organized folder? How can check that possibility?

There is no proxy between me and Alfresco.
In Windows Explorer, create a new Network Place and browse to
http://<server>:8080/alfresco/webdav‍
Explorer knows how to speak WebDAV, so it should appear like a normal network drive.

Thanks,
Mike

Thank you! I'm so stupid! I haven't correctly filled WebDAV field. Now it works! Thank you!

As I understood, I also can use than Network Place (

http://<server>:8080/alfresco/webdav‍

) to migrate big count of files?

mikeh

Thank you! I'm so stupid! I haven't correctly filled WebDAV field. Now it works! Thank you!

Glad it's working! Don't blame yourself - that configuration page needs a overhaul to make it far less error-prone.

As I understood, I also can use than Network Place (
http://<server>:8080/alfresco/webdav‍
) to migrate big count of files?

Yes, either the webdav or ftp interfaces are great for bulk uploads.

Thanks,
Mike

sacco

Well the web scripts won't have changed and are completely independent of
the actual add-in client, so I suspect there's something else going on there.
Updating the client software has no effect on workflow, tasks, etc.

Yes, and I can sometimes see it by (e., by browsing direct in the way
you suggested. I think I'll put this to one side until I've upgraded the
server to a more recent build: that way it will either vanish painlessly, or I
will have strong suspicions about the kind of weird problems that
Windows authentication can sometimes throw up.

A final question: is there any way to persuade the Add-In to prefer
WebDAV to CIFS?

And a final, comment to follow: if I had matching builds I'd put it in the JIRA, but it may help in any case.

sacco

On the subject of Windows authentication…

We have been seeing an issue where a user becomes completely unable to
login through the Office 2003 Add-In. Typically the user is on a Windows
client which is part of a domain, but the Alfresco server in question is
simply using Alfreco's standalone internal authentication for the time being.
We are not trying to authenticate against the domain, and the usernames
are different.

The symptoms are that instead of seeing the Add-In's small pop-up
prompt for credentials, the user receives a minature version of the
Web Client login page. However, the user is completely unable to login;
in fact, it is impossible to login with any credentials.

Further investigation reveals that the problem can usually be solved only
by logging out of the Windows machine entirely! Furthermore, a login
of sorts can be forced through the Add-In by deleting the CIFS server
configuration.

My guess here is that Windows is doing its usual over-stubborn cacheing
of login credentials for CIFS, but for some reason these credentials are
also being used for the Add-In's HTTP login and failing. My first guess
would by that Windows is pre-pending the Windows Computer Name of
the Alfresco CIFS server to the username as a login domain, which works
fine for a the CIFS server, but then fails for the HTTP. Trouble is, the
Add-In is often unhappy unless the user is pre-authenticated against a
network location on the CIFS server…

For what it's worth, I've removed all sites from the Local intranet security
zone under Windows' Internet Options, and set all zones to 'Prompt for
Username and Password' for Logon Authentication, but this hasn't helped.

igor2

hello everyone
I have a similar problem to me, can not open a document can you give me some help

lukasm

I am having a similar issue with MS Office, but let me try your advice - will see if the issue goes away.
Thanks.