Hi, On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Asiri Rathnayake < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Guillaume, > > Another thing I've been wondering about: should we keep a copy of the > > 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) 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. > 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 > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > -- Guillaume Lerouge Product Manager - XWiki Skype ID : wikibc http://guillaumelerouge.com/ _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
