I am working on a project where we are taking a bunch of documents authored using MS Word and placing them online. Currently they are being published as PDF documents in order to maintain the formatting.
We are evaluating Content Management Systems (CMS), however, there is a bit of reluctance among the content publishers to use the CMS built in WYSYWIG editor. I can understand why, they are nowhere near as good as Word!
Some CMS have decent 'paste from Word' functions, but the one I have found that handles images as well is this Wordpress pluging.
My question is - are there any Content Management Systems that have been built with Word integration in mind? Something that makes it as easy as possible to publish Word documents as HTML.
So far from what I have seen, Microsoft Sharepoint had the best integration with the MS Office. I think most of them use Sharepoint as a intranet portal, but it could be also hosted as a public facing website. But compared to other CMS, it can be little pricey. But it has tons of features apart from content management.
Sharepoint Demo
Public Facing Sharepoint Websites
Microsoft Word does publish documents as HTML.
File > Save As > Web Page (Filtered)
Office.com - Save a document as a webpage
ahmednuaman/gdrive-cms-php uses Google Drive as a pseudo back-end to store and edit pages (Documents).
The self-hosted PHP and MySQL CMS requests text/HTML-exports of to display as web pages.
It also simplifies authentication and group permissions (if the editors are already Google/Drive users).
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I need to implement Microsoft Word into my works website and I'm having real trouble trying to find any information about it. Is there a way to do this? I need mail merge functionality but I don't mind whether it just works with my website (database website)rather than being implemented into it
(I've used CKEditor and TinyMCE but neither are useful for my website/work. I need it to be simple and I'm working with people who just know basic Word)
I don't think you can embed (real) Microsoft Word editing functionality in an arbitrary website.
However, if you are running a Sharepoint server, then you can upload MS Word documents to Sharepoint and edit there them via a web browser via "word Web App". It also allows the user to "one click" download a document and edit it Word installed on their machine.
References:
Microsoft's Introduction to Word Web App
Alternatively, if you are prepared to look at 3rd-party solutions, some are listed in these Q&As:
Embed editable MS Word document on web page
Making Word document embedded in a web page editable or read-only
However, this is dangerously close to asking for a recommendation for software or a web-based service, and that is off-topic.
We have an existing web application written in Java. We want to give our users the ability to open a Word document that is stored in our application on the server. So when the user downloads the document from our server, Word pops up and they then can edit this document on the client. Once finished editing the document we would like to give them the ability to save this document automatically back to the server where they retrieved it, by simply selecting on the Word Save icon. Similar to how SharePoint does it.
Seems to me SharePoint would be a good solution for this and they do it very well, but unfortunately we cannot use SharePoint in our architecture.
There also seems to be a lot of server-side possibilities that we can use to upload and open word documents from our server, I feel we can solve these use cases easily.
My big problem is the automatic saving of an edited document by the client back to our server where the document was downloaded
I am not Microsoft proficient to know what the best solution would be.
Should we write a Word AddIn to save to our server?
How do we get the Word AddIn into our users desktops?
Can we embed a Word AddIn into the Word document that is opened on the client?
1.Should we write a Word AddIn to save to our server?
If you don't want to use SharePoint you can develop an add-in where you can implement all the required functionality and much more.
2.How do we get the Word AddIn into our users desktops?
You can develop an installer for the add-in. See Deploying an Office Solution for more information. Also you can use the group policy objects for deploying the software automatically.
3.Can we embed a Word AddIn into the Word document that is opened on the client?
You can develop a document-level add-in, i.e. the code will be run for a specific document only. But you will need to install it as an application level add-in. See Architecture of Document-Level Customizations for more information.
Basically i have requirement to build a CMS kind of site.
if user submits a article what is the best way to store the article. whether it is xml or database.
the article will contain rich text formatting like content,images,highlighting source code.
sample article looks like http://www.dotnetfunda.com/articles/article1498-how-to-work-with-or-create-master-pages-in-aspnet-.aspx. Take this article as example which has images,content, source code highlighting and rich text formats. so how to store this kind of content to our website.
please guide me best way of how to store.
If you are planning to implement a CMS I would strongly recommend that you look at the open source CMSs that are out there before you start rolling your own.
WordPress, Joomla! and Drupal are the big three CMS and would be able to do all the things you have suggested.
On the issue of whether to store in the database or as files or has had an answer here: CMS: store custom pages as files or in MySQL database?
The question of whether images should be stored in a db vs filesystem is a recurring theme and this seems to be one of the best QandAs on it
Store pictures as files or in the database for a web app?
I have a web app project that I will be starting to work on shortly. One of the features included is going to be a content management system where users can add content and then that content will be combined with a template and then output as a regular .html file. This .html file would then be FTPed to their own web host.
As I've always believed in not reinventing the wheel I figured I'd see if there are any quality customizable CMSes out there that do this already do this. For instance, Blogger.com allows you to post all of your content to your account there; but offers the option to let you use your own hosting. Any time you publish a new article then a new .html page is generated (as well as an updated index page with links to the new article) and then the updated content is FTPed to your own server.
What I would like is something like this that I can modify to more closely suit my needs.
Required Features:
Able to host on my own server
Written in PHP
Users add content through their account, then when posted it is FTPed as .html to their server
Any appropriate pages are also updated to link to the new content (like the index page or whatnot)
Templateable
Customizable
Optional (but very much desired) features:
Written in CodeIgniter or a similar PHP framework
While CodeIgniter isn't strictly required, I would very much prefer it. It speeds up development time and makes things much easier to implement.
So - any suggestions? I've stumbled across a few CMSes that push to remote servers as static pages, but the ones I've found all are hosted on the developers servers which means that I cannot modify it at all.
Adobe Contribute might work for your situation. A developer/designer creates a set of templates with Dreamweaver and publishes the templates. Authorized users can then create pages based on the templates and only make changes within the editable regions. It includes systems for drafts and reviews prior to publishing (via many options, including ftp) and incorporates automatic version control. It can work with static html pages or dynamic pages like php.
Sounds like you need a separate application that can do this for you.
For example, you should be able to write something that queries Drupal's menu router and saves the output (with curl) to a directory and then run's rsync to push your content where you want it to go.
Otherwise your requirements are likely to be outside the scope of a typical CMS. Separating this functionality will give you better options.
You'd need to write a filter for your URLs too. It's a bit of work...
Hope that helps!
I have a section of a web application I’m working on where there are mail merge templates. The documents are word documents. When a user has need to edit the template I’d like them to be able to simply click edit, which would cause word to load with the document loaded. When the user is done, they click save in word and the web page spots the change in the file and pushes this back to the server.
I managed to create a VBScript in a web page that could do all of this, but only when internet explorers security was turned down. The fact that I’m using VBScript to automate is not good as it restricts the browser choice and I’m not happy asking my users to turn their security down.
I don’t want the users to download the file, edit it, save it to their local machine and then upload it back to the server, it’s all very clunky. I also know that there are 3rd party controls that allow editing in a page, but I'd rather avoid them if I can.
Is there an alternative way of approaching this?
You can use Office Open XML to generate the word documents on the Server Side. There is an msdn article, sorry no time to go searching for it, explaining why you should not automate office from web servers using COM/DCOM because of security issues involving shared memory.
you could use google docs API, which is certainly more universal than using proprietary technology that works in one and only browser (IE).
I think you can go for the google docs API. It is more generic solution to go for too.
It is possible, with browser-security caveats, to open Word documents for edit from a browser via an UNC path on an internal network.
The best option currently is to WebDAV enable your website, and use the SharePoint plug-in client-side to open the file in Word over WebDAV.
The SharePoint plug-in for IE gets installed when you install Office. There is also a plug-in for Firefox/ Chrome referred to as NPAPI. Beware NPAPI seems to have an issue with long URL paths.
IT Hit make a terrific framework for WebDAV enabling a .NET-based website, see http://www.webdavsystem.com/. They also sell a client-side library that can open Word documents via Java instead of the plug-ins mentioned above. IIS has it own, more basic, WebDAV capability that you can use too.
I am not familiar with non-.Net / Apache solutions but just search for WebDAV products.
Office will require the use of HTTPS for editing via WebDAV.