We are going to develop a client-server application with web interface which will store office documents on server.
When we use browser as a client we need to perform these three steps to edit a document:
download document to the local machine;
open it in office program and edit;
upload document to the server.
It is very inconvenient. Sometimes it is hard to find where a document was downloaded to, when we need to upload it. Customers will also forget to upload document after editing.
Is there any way or technology to upload document automatically?
Or just any ideas how to make this process more convenient.
Thanks in advance!
I would, suggest, if applicable to store all documents as HTML then allowing editing in a web page powered by CKEditor or a similar tool.
If your documents must be in another format, like Office formats, you might start thinking at Office 365, or use ActiveX controls in your web application, something I believe should be deprecated but works in small (better restricted) enterprise environments.
These are just a couple of ideas.
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I want to create a dashboard on Google Data Studio using a template provided by my organization but I can't find any helpful resource to do that so I'm tempted to think that's not even possible. I tried to use "Extract theme for image" option in GDS but didn't work properly since it just tries to emulate the colors from the image and not the template itself.
Any advice or suggestion will be much appreciated.
Unfortunately, there is no way to achieve this.
Although last versions of Google Data Studio contains resources to allow it to present dashboards as it were a presentation software, I don't think it is intended to offer advanced resources for this task, neighter make it compatible with other presentation softwares (especially if you're talking about third party software, as Microsoft PowerPoint).
The best you can do is to create your own dashboard, and try to mimic your company's provided template.
you could also use an image as theme, it will at least uses the colors of you company as you can see in the image below.
And that's unfortunally what you can do with it, and for powerpoint themes, you could also use Microsoft Power bi which is way more advanced that Google Data studio
I am new in Office 365 Add-ins. I want to know about caching. I am working on a Add-In using Office.js. I want to manage caching.
Scienario:
1- Add-In will get data from server once in a day. Data can be in MBs(i.e 5 MB).
2- It should store somewhere. So, user can use it even there is no internet connection.
Is there any internal caching mechanism provide by Office APIs?
I was also thinking to store in File. Is it possible to create and manage File using Office Add-ins in Windows and Mac?(I am just curious about File permission in Mac)
Please suggest
You need to read through the following resource: Persisting add-in state and settings. Depend on the Office application you are writing your add-in for you would need to use different objects or approaches (for example use HTML5 web storage, etc.)
I have a certain online application that generates reports(and prints them) based on some repository of information. Now I would like to make an offline application which is provides the same experience and in which the repository is pre-loaded into the users' computer. What is the best way to convert this online app to offline app. The first thing that came to my mind was setup a local server and database. This ensures the experience is consistent. But I'm open to other options, such as storing the data in a file system and then loading it via flash/flex based apps or C# or Java. The objective of this offline app is to provide the functionality(report generation) to users where internet is not feasible.
I am not sure about the windows aspect of your question, but if I was doing an offline web based page(s) I would be looking at a LocalStorage database (though it does have some downsides), but there are other alternatives such as WebSQL and IndexedDB.
If you have reports, do they still have value when they are out of date? Do you need to store the configuration of those reports or is it all just read only?
Shameless self promotion, I have a project that is designed to handle database synchronization, though it's not done, it's close. You can see it (with an ugly but very functional) demo at https://github.com/forbesmyester/SyncIt
As part of an investigation into enterprise level server side document generation I have come across Open XML.
For those that have used this, how successful were you? Would you recommend it?
Can you save the OpenXML to PDF directly or would I need to make use of a 3rd party component?
If a 3rd Party component is required, which one did you use and which one would you recommend?
Thanks
Gineer
The nice thing about the Office OpenXML is that it's the language of Microsoft Office -- if you live your "office life" in Word and Excel (2007 and later), that's the format you want.
Can you "save" OpenXML directly to PDF? No, it needs to be rendered by some third-party component.
If you're doing document generation on the server side and you don't need to be working with Office documents as output, you'd generally use something like iText or iTextSharp, which would render the PDFs directly.
I haven't worked with a server-side component that will do the translation from Office OpenXML to PDF, though.
There are various third party components for the OpenXML to PDF piece. I maintain the open source docx4j, which is one option.
If you are doing document generation, you may find you need repeats and conditionals. For suggestions on how to do this, see http://dev.plutext.org/svn/docx4j/trunk/docx4j/sample-docs/databinding/conventions.html
Call me biased, as I worked on this component, but the PDF Conversion Services are used by many small and large organisations to convert OpenXML as well as many other formats to PDF using a friendly Web Services interface.
Check out these examples:
C# / .NET
Java
I need to find a stand-alone (ie. no OpenOffice-based tools, for instance) Windows application that can present users with forms to enter records into an SQLite database. The goal is to migrate data from Excel sheets into a serverless, single-user database like SQLite.
As a bonus, the application would also have a somewhat-protected admin section so that I can also use it to CRUD data with the same app, but it's not a requirement.
There are a lot of applications listed on the official SQLite site: Can someone recommend one that is meant for end-users, either open- or closed-source?
Thank you.
Edit: the correct term I was looking for is "data entry form". Googling around didn't return a Windows application that makes it possible to easily write data entry forms to let end-users create/edit records, ie. with no direct access to the underlying tables.
I think FileMaker or Microsoft Infopath (May be with Sharepoint Services) could fulfill your needs completely. There are forms in both, validation, different available sources for keeping data, working over net. Both are very flexible and powerful. Infopath with Sharepoint Services can be installed and customized quite quickly.