On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 08:23:17AM -0700, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > It might be good to stick to very specific, simple use cases. > > If Google Docs will export a spreadsheet to the desktop in ODF, > clearly that can be used as a source of data for incorporation in > another ODF spreadsheet using AOO Calc. > > I think that may be good enough to satisfy the case raised by the OP, > assuming there are sufficient Google Docs privileges to download the > document [;<).
[...] > It's not the key point if _we_ support a roundtrip but if the other > application supports the feature set of AOO in case someone depends on > a roundtrip and if an extension supports both APIs. In case of MS > Office > 365 does an API exist that can be used by opensource applications like > AOO? Joost makes a good point, concerning Google Docs, they have an API that allows developing a database driver so that Google Doc Spreadsheets can be used as data sources inside AOO. Think of this as something similar to the current solution where you can create a data source connected to an AOO Spreadsheet document. Also, Google's API allows developing another extension implementing what is called a UCP (a content provider for the UCB), in (my bad) English: an extension that allows to browse Google Drive from the file dialog, select a file, open it for editing, save it back. These two extensions can be developed without learning a single line of AOO source code, nor compiling AOO by yourself. Nice projects for next year's GSOC. Regards -- Ariel Constenla-Haile La Plata, Argentina
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