Wopi

This is an application for Nextcloud that allows you to edit office documents in Microsoft office online server. The application implements the api described on the page https://wopi.readthedocs.io/projects/wopirest/en/latest/. List of implemented methods

• FILE OPERATIONS
  • CheckFileInfo
  • GetFile
  • Lock
  • GetLock
  • RefreshLock
  • Unlock
  • UnlockAndRelock
  • PutFile
  • PutRelativeFile
  • RenameFile

Installation

Server

You will need an working Microsoft Office Online server to connect to. The office server must have access to the nextcloud server at the same address at which the user accesses the nextcloud server.

Nextcloud app

In your Nextcloud, simply navigate to »Apps«, choose the category »Office & text«, find the Wopi app and enable it. Then open the administrator settings, navigate to the »Office Online« tab and specify your Office Online server url.

Nextcloud/Wopi relation

For the latest information about the Wopi and Nextcloud releases, please visit the:

Apps page of Wopi.

Federated editing / Global Scale

Collaborative editing of federated documents requires Wopi version 3.4 on all involved servers. Besides that the following conditions must be met:

• Make sure the remote server is added as a trusted server

Building the app

The app can be built by using the provided Makefile by running:

make

To make appstore build run:

make appstore

The archive is then located in build/artifacts.

This requires the following things to be present:

• make
• npm
• tar: for building the archive