On Thursday, 23. June 2011 22:26:34 David Nelson wrote: > On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:00 PM, Nino Novak <nn.l...@kflog.org> wrote: > > BTW: What we are looking for is a collaborative editing tool. Does > > Alfresco provide such a tool? > > Well, if you count the ability for a document to be checked out by a > team member and marked as such until checked in, then yes. Plus, > workflows can be developed to extend this kind of collaboration.
no, what I meant was the second: > But, if you're thinking of a tool that lets several people work on a > doc - within LibreOffice Writer, for example - and have edits > incorporated into a document from several contributors working in > parallel, then Alfresco does not go that far for the moment. Yep, that was the question. > There is a dormant plugin project on Alfresco Forge for OOo that > allows/allowed something somewhat akin to this, although it is still > at an early stage of development. I've been in contact with Jeff > Potts of the Alfresco project to see if we can't revive development > of this plugin, and a phone meeting is planned to take place > sometime next week. One of the LibreOffice devs should be attending > the meeting, as will the original project admin, as will I, and the > idea is to see where the code base is at, and what can be done about > getting things rolling again so that we get it functional for > LibreOffice. So maybe we'll have some news about that soon? It would > be interesting functionality. > > Does this answer your query? Thanks, that was exactly my impression after speed-scanning the Alfresco Homepage. So for the moment, we will continue to work with the wiki. Nino -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@global.libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
