Feature Proposal: Provide an Office Connector like in Confluence

Motivation

• Integrate employees that find Foswiki and wikis in general too technical.
• Help to free all existing documents in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

Description and Documentation

• Edit with Word, Excel, or PowerPoint
• Embed content from these pages in wiki pages
• Import documents into the wiki
• Support for Open Office

Examples

See the Office Connector for Confluence from Atlassian, that works with Microsoft Office and Open Office to understand, what I am envisioning.

Impact

Implementation

-- Contributors: MartinSeibert - 01 Nov 2008

Discussion

M$ Office is obviously widely employed in the commercial setting that is the main target of Foswiki. Most of the bits that Confluence describe are already there in one form or another, albeit less fluidly integrated.

Function	Foswiki supports
Convert existing Word documents	copy-paste to WYSIWYG, offline conversion of HTML generated from Word
Edit pages inside M$ Word	Can be done use the (commercial) WebDAVLinkPlugin, but nowhere near as smooth as TinyMCE
Make your documents searchable	Various extensions
Embed your M$ files	Not sure, but I think there's a plugin
View content deep within a file	Nothing analagous

However cleaning up the integration to make an "M$ Office Connector pack" is a lot of work, impacting extensions, template and maybe even the base skin, and IMHO is something unlikely to be addressed unless someone in the community has a really, really good reason (usually meaning an employer/client wants it).

-- CrawfordCurrie - 08 Jul 2010

I would love to get a wiki which allows import and export either from Word or OpenOffice. This will allow team members to review and change text just by using the web interface and for the daily work to modify the text with an advanced editor.

-- StefanFreundel - 17 Aug 2011

http://foswiki.org/Extensions/MsOfficeAttachmentsAsHTMLPlugin doesn't do what you want but it might help you.

-- MartinCleaver - 17 Aug 2011