adf-aos-editonline-action

• Description
• Prerequisites
• Office client requisites
• Install
• Basic usage
• Screenshots
  • Execute "Edit on MS Office" action upon a ms file, for example a .pptx
  • Give your Alfresco credentials
  • Work with Alfresco content from within your Ms Office
• Build from sources
• History
• Contributors

Description

This module provides the Edit on Ms Office action present in Alfresco Share to be used on ADF (Alfresco Development Framework) 2.0.0 applications.

The module was developed during the Adding a new feature to Alfresco Content Application (ACA) project of the Alfresco Global Hackathon 2018. I did a previous similar project that works for ADF 1.8.0 and 1.9.0. The idea of this projects is to create angular reusable components holding functionalities present on Alfresco Share and often used by our clients.

Prerequisites

Before you start using this module, make sure you have properly installed and configured Alfresco Office Services (AOS) on your Alfresco Content Services installation, documentation.

For illustrating the use of the module I'll be using the alfresco-content-app

Office client requisites

Alfresco Office Services documentation

NOTE: Alfresco server and the ADF application must be accessible by a qualified hostname from within your Office client.

Example configuration

To configure a hostname for your ADF application with webpack-dev-server, just edit package.json and add --public parameter to the start script.

 "start": "npm run server-versions && npm run webpack-dev-server -- --config config/webpack.prod.js --progress --public app.example.com:3000 --content-base app/",

Next specify the externally accessible hostname for Alfresco on app.config.json

"ecmHost": "https://acs.example.com",

Make sure you can access both services from the Office client.

Install

• Npm

Install the ng2-alfresco-aos-editonline module into your ADF application

npm install adf-aos-editonline-action --save

Compatibility Matrix

| package version | ADF version | | --- | --- | | 2.0.0 | 2.0.0 | | 2.0.1 | 2.0.0 |

Basic usage

1. Clone the Alfresco ADF content application and install the module

$ git clone https://github.com/Alfresco/alfresco-content-app.git
$ cd alfresco-content-app
$ npm install
$ npm install adf-aos-editonline-action --save

1. Import the module into the application

Edit the root module on your application to add the AosModule

app.module.ts

    ...
    import { AosModule } from 'adf-aos-editonline-action';
    ...
    @NgModule({
        imports: [
            ...
            AosModule
        ],
        ...        

2. Extend FilesComponent HTML template

For this example we are going to use the FilesComponent that comes with the application generated with yeoman. This component showcases the use of the ng2-alfresco-documentlist component which fits perfect to test the AOS action.

NOTE: Read the ContentAction component documentation for understanding the extension point here

src/app/components/files/files.component.html

   <adf-document-list>
        ...        
         <content-actions>
            <content-action
                icon="build"
                target="document"
                permission="update"
                [disableWithNoPermission]="true"
                (permissionEvent)="handlePermissionError($event)"
                title="{{'AOS.ACTION.TITLE' | translate}}"
                (success)="onAosEditonlineActionSuccess($event)"
                (execute)="aosEditonline($event)">
            </content-action>
        </content-actions>
    </adf-document-list>

3. Extend FilesComponent ts file

On the FileComponent controller we need to implement the aosEditonline(event) function, the name of the method is just and example and could be any other name, it only need to match the one defined in the HTML template.

src/app/components/files/files.component.ts

    import { AosEditOnlineService } from 'adf-aos-editonline-action';
    ...
    constructor(
                ...
                private aosEditOnlineService: AosEditOnlineService) {
    }
    ...
    aosEditonline(event) {
        this.aosEditOnlineService.onActionEditOnlineAos(event.value.entry);
    }

4. Start the application

$ npm start

5. Test the action

Access your application on http:// (after successfully logged in), navigate to a Ms document and click on the actions menu

Screenshots

Execute "Edit on MS Office" action upon a ms file, for example a .pptx

Give your Alfresco credentials

Work with Alfresco content from within your Ms Office

Build from sources

Alternatively you can build component from sources with the following commands:

npm install
npm run build

History

For detailed changelog, check Releases.

Contributors

Contributors