Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel have the ability to open documents by URI (for instance pointing to a web server) and to save them back after they got edited. This functionality can also be invoked by a browser. This, for instance, is done in products like Atlassian Confluence and Microsoft Sharepoint.
Is it possible to open an Adobe InDesign (while InDesign is installed on the computer, ofc) document in a (similar) way like described above?
This means:
Invoke InDesign (embedded in browser or as separate application), but by the browser.
Open a document by specifying an URI (for instance on a web server), also by the browser.
After close or when the user presses save, InDesign will PUT or POST the document back to the URI. (Or use an alike way.)
The short answer is no.
You can build a system with web front-end and InDesign Server as a back-end. This will achieve the functionality you describe and user will not need a local copy of InDesign.
Another, simpler(and cheaper) option is to use one of the cloud services, like dropbox, or Adobe Creative Cloud with a shared folder and share the files for collaboration.
May be, there is a plugin capable of doing something similar, but I did not come across anything like this. So, another option is to build a plugin, although it will have to be distributed to every end-user and you will need your web service to server the files.
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I have multiple files available on HTTP server which users can download and I want to provide a single download link which will allow the user to one click download multiple files (using just web browser or download manager). The files are very big so packing them into archives on the fly and providing zip download is not an option.
Is there any combination of internet standard plus download manager which will allow for such batch HTTP downloads?
I know there is metalink(wiki) standard, but it doesn't seem to be very popular and there are almost no client application supporting it:
DownThemAll - soon can be discontinued because Mozilla is going to deprecate their XUL extension API
aria2c - although works great is a command line only client which is not really user friendly
Torrent I would guess can't be used with simple HTTP download, they require torrent protocol, right?
Do you know any other alternative, except inventing own standard and/or writing own download manager?
I am working on a project where we have implemented content management with word.
We have some word files, that are being processed using OpenXML.
Users can open those files in two ways - download a copy or edit online. Online editing is implemented using Office Online Server and custom Wopi server, built based on this example.
Editing online works fine, but Word Online has limited features compared to desktop Word.
I am trying to build a functionality similar to Sharepoint, where user has 2 options - Edit in Word, Edit in Browser:
In Office Online Server I don't have such options, I can only edit in browser:
Even in edit mode Sharepoint provides a link for Edit in Word:
whereas Office Online Server does not have it:
My question is how it is implemented in Sharepoint?
In other words, am I missing something in Wopi server to enable it or Microsoft has built this functionality into Sharepoint, without the need of Wopi and/or OWA?
Any ideas would be appreciated!
To enable "Edit in Word" in Office Online Server when using a WOPI handler, you need to set the ClientUrl property in CheckFileInfo (and CheckFolderInfo if you implement that). ClientUrl should be set to a direct editable link for the document file, either WebDAV or FSHTTP, but you could even use a file:// link for testing.
When you set the ClientUrl property, Office Online behavior becomes very similar to OneDrive/SharePoint Online. The current WOPI documentation is a bit outdated, it lists this property under Unused and future properties, but there is nothing secret about it. I asked dochelp#microsoft.com, that is Microsoft's "Open Specifications Support" mailbox, mentioned in many of their presentations and publications about WOPI and Office Online.
Word Online Reading View:
Word Online Editing View after clicking OPEN IN WORD:
I'm pretty sure that the functionality (Edit in Word) is not part of the Office Online Server and that it doesn't utilize the WOPI protocol. In the previous versions of SharePoint, it was implemented using WebDAV and I guess this hasn't changed. If you want to support opening/editing/saving you should implement your own WebDAV server. You can save a lot of time if you use a pre-built server like one from ITHit. They also have a JS framework to support opening files from browser.
If you want a cheap, cross-browser alternative that will just invoke the editing apps I suggest you have a look at Office URIs.
If i write an desktop app in tidesdk or tide kit will it be possible for users to read my source code, just like from ordinary web page or not ?
Yes, if the user knows where to look. It's not viewable by right clicking the window and selecting source, but if they browse to the install directory, all the HTML / related files are there in broad daylight.
You could come up with some strategies to protect them, either using encryption or just providing a bootstrapper application which downloads the rest of the source from a server on startup or something like that...but if it's a huge concern of yours you're probably better off using a different platform.
I am new to windows azure. I've created simple HelloWorld ASP.NET azure application and published it. I know I can republish whole application in Visual Studio by clicking right button on project and then publish it. But is it possible to update only one file (aspx page, picture etc.)
Thanks!
Regards, Alexander.
I think if you're just learning Windows Azure, the most helpful answer is "You can't." The way Windows Azure works is that to update an application, you create the full package and deploy it again.
This isn't to say that David's answer isn't also correct. I just wanted to directly answer the question of "How do I change just one file after I deploy?"
If you want to update individual files such as images, one thing you can do is store all images (and css, javascript, and any other static content) in Blob storage. This has several advantages:
Easy to upload new files individually, with both free tools and paid tools. For instance: Cloudberry Explorer is a free app, and Cerebrata Cloud Storage Studio is a paid app, both which let you manage containers and blobs individually.
Smaller deployment package, because you've removed images and other large files
Less load on IIS, since image requests go directly to blob storage, not to your role instances
You can't store your aspx files in blobs, though you can store static content like html in blobs. To update aspx, you're basically updating the deployment. You can now do this as an "upgrade" which doesn't disrupt your IP address and, if you have multiple instances, doesn't take down your service during upgrade.
You can either use webdeploy (which should do a selective update of all files) or connect via remote desktop and update certain files yourself.
Like the comment and MSDN says: neither of these two ways are recommended/usable for production deployments. They are only meant as a shortcut for certain development scenarios.
I have an asp.net site which is essentially a repository of documents uploaded by users.
I would like visitors to the site to be able to view any of these documents in some sort of "document viewer" without ever being able to download the file to their local system.
Documents are all Office files and PDFs.
Please advise if there are open source or commercial "document viewer" controls that you have used and would recommend.
EDIT: I own the server and can load any server components. Unfortunately i can't use flash based viewers as it must be compatible accross all browsers and devices.
We had a similar requirement and we converted all office docs and PDF files to SWF files using Print2Flash (http://print2flash.com/) and display them in the browser. There are both free and commercial editions of print2flash.
Just answering for anyone else looking up this info.
I ended up going with Adeptol's Ajax Document Viewer which works really well.