Integrate Open Office to Livelink

[smallredville]

Hi...

Is it possible to integrate the open office (e.g. Open Office 3.0) to Livelink without help from Open Text?

I heard from my colleague that last time her company needed to purchase something called "OpenOfficeIntegrator" in the format of .msi from Open Text.

At that time her company purchased "OpenOfficeIntegrator" for integrating Open Office 2.3 into the Livelink so that the users could open any Open Office format through the Livelink - simply by clicking on Open or Edit command.

I hope somebody who have any knowledge/idea in this field can share with me about this so that I would not waste my time to research on this area (if it is not possible to do it without Open Text Help) ....

Lastly, I would like to say : "Many Thanks in advance......"


With Regards&Thanks,


smallredville

 

[appnair]

I don't know what the integration looks like ut here are a lot of options that will work.

Putting a link to word,excel,ppt something like Save as to Livelink would be more I think what ever the MSoffice SDK or OpenSDK could give you.Check the addin samples for word.

The explorer Save as command is then invoking LAPI to do the livelink side of things.

The new livelink 9.6 and up can run java code from oscript.Previously there was no way for oscript to call any other language other than "drop In" technology that OT uses internally and will not share outside of OT.I have actually made my oscript code talk to java but just for trying it out.In a recent project we had to "consume" a sap webservice since there was no inherent way to consume a webservice in oscript(the converse is true you can call livelink's web service all you can) we wrote up a crude interchange method where we called a URL to a webservice and that called the sapwebservice and we just parsed data that we were looking for.

Just some ramblings on a thursday morning.....


Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
James Thurber, New Yorker cartoon caption, June 5, 1937

 

[smallredville]

Hello Appnair,

Thank you for your reply. I appreciate it very much.

However, I am not sure whether what you shared with me is what I intend to do.

What I mean by integrate is that: The user can click on open or edit on an OpenOffice document (found in Livelink workspace) and the browser will open the content of the document.

Maybe it would be clearer if you see the attachement URL (which contains a picture of the Livelink open/edit function)

http://smallredville.fileave.com/Design.JPG

Lastly, thanks, Appnair...

Regards,

smallredville

 

[appnair]

This I am told is fairly easy.I have never done that.If you look at how OT is doing that it is based on the activex editor found at this link

http://ivelink/llisapi.dll?func=webedit.admin

I am guessing you may have to put an activex cab file like what OT does ...

If you know builder enough then I am sure you can find what behind the scenes is happening.

I have seen threads of this nature answered at OT KB it is

knowledge.opentext.com check there as well.

I know this doesnot help but this I think is way above my head.



Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
James Thurber, New Yorker cartoon caption, June 5, 1937

 

[smallredville]

Thanks, Appnair...

I would give it a try...

smallredville

 

[smallredville]

Hello Appnair,

I wish to check with you about the link that you posted:

http://livelink/llisapi.dll?func=webedit.admin

If you don't mind, can you tell more about it, as when I clicked on the URL, it forwarded to

http://www.opentext.com/2/sol-products.htm

And I am not sure how to make use of the information in the page.


I thank you in advance

Regards,

 

[appnair]

I was merely trying to say it was standard LL functionality

perhaps this is more clearer

http://yourlivelink

server /livelink/llisapi.dll ?func=webedit.admin

webedit.admin is what in LL we call a Request Handler so it should be the same for all livelink's out there something similar to func=admin.index

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
James Thurber, New Yorker cartoon caption, June 5, 1937