i'm evaluating several cm systems as our company is in desperate need of a new system. My experience with using blogengine.net for our corporate blog tells me that our content editors don't really like web-based editors as tinymce, they would prefer using MS Word to write articles. Is there any existing solution (via web service or something, i have no clue) to realize this? I used to work with RedDot (prior to OpenText aquisition) for some years and editors loved the MS Word integration since they didn't had to leave their known environment.
Since Umbraco is and does all i've been looking for, it would be really nice, if someone could point me to some solution or what would be the best way to develop such feature.
Read this blog post http://forum.umbraco.org/yafpostst5595Using-Word-for-editing.aspx
and scroll down until you find Richard's reply (I've done a test and works flawlessly).
Took a little as we spontaneously decided to have a little weekend trip ;) But yeah, that's it. Even though it the content is generated in the root (since you can only have one content channel per user and all of our editors are responsible for all of our website sections), they can move their content afterwards.
Thanks to rsoeteman. And the whole Umbraco staff for such an intuitive cms, i haven't read one single tutorial yet, but prototyping our page in Umbraco progresses flawless.
Don't need to move content afterwards if you configure the content channel correctly.
If you set the 'Start Node in Content' to the node where the content should be posted using word, then you're set and don't need to move content afterwards.
Create as many users/content channels as you've got different types of content.
Each can have their own start node.
If you don't mind all editors to use the same user, then you'd get away with creating one user/content channel per content type. All editors will use same user/content channel for that type of content.
we want to include the editors name in the content, so having one user per content type is not an option (if i get you and the content channel concept right ;)
Indeed, got it right. In that case, AFAIK, you'll be doomed to create a new user per editor and per content type (which might make it quite complex when dealing with lots of content types.)
As said, it's a AFAIK, maybe someone else may have a nicer solution...
I just wanted to let you know, that i'm going to tell them to create content using the web interface and then edit using Word, but Word doesn't show any article in the list. Have to verify that.
There is a bug in MS Word which causes that you don't get a list of the documents (or was it that you cannot open the selected page? hmm? #-o ). I implemented a small MS plugin which uses a webservice to get the correct ID of the entry. If you need help mail me, Thomas (th at thoehler dot com, you can write in german)
[quote=hoehler]There is a bug in MS Word which causes that you don't get a list of the documents (or was it that you cannot open the selected page? hmm? #-o ). I implemented a small MS plugin which uses a webservice to get the correct ID of the entry. If you need help mail me, Thomas (th at thoehler dot com, you can write in german)
Thomas[/quote]
Sooo, at the moment you cannot save a new document in Word and you cannot edit an exisitng document? Why is "word support" then on the Umbraco feature list? I nearly recommended Umbraco as a CMS for our company...
[quote=Steffen]
Sooo, at the moment you cannot save a new document in Word and you cannot edit an exisitng document? Why is "word support" then on the Umbraco feature list? I nearly recommended Umbraco as a CMS for our company...
[/quote]
You cannot edit (or better get) existing items by default Word options. This is a bug from Word reported to MS nearly two years ago. This isn't a bug from Umbraco. I also manged to have a workaround via webservices and a word ribbon addin.
btw: The html code word exports is nearly the same bad code as it is via copy paste. So really good editing via word isn't the option #1 independend from the cms.
[quote=hoehler]
btw: The html code word exports is nearly the same bad code as it is via copy paste. So really good editing via word isn't the option #1 independend from the cms.
[/quote]
Oh, is it really like that? If so, i would need to adapt the portions of our current in-house cms, which parses the Word documents and generates the html by itself.
Using MS Word as text editor?
Hi,
i'm evaluating several cm systems as our company is in desperate need of a new system. My experience with using blogengine.net for our corporate blog tells me that our content editors don't really like web-based editors as tinymce, they would prefer using MS Word to write articles. Is there any existing solution (via web service or something, i have no clue) to realize this? I used to work with RedDot (prior to OpenText aquisition) for some years and editors loved the MS Word integration since they didn't had to leave their known environment.
Since Umbraco is and does all i've been looking for, it would be really nice, if someone could point me to some solution or what would be the best way to develop such feature.
Cheers,
Atze
Hi,
Read this blog post http://forum.umbraco.org/yafpostst5595Using-Word-for-editing.aspx
and scroll down until you find Richard's reply (I've done a test and works flawlessly).
Credits go to Richard of course (rsoeteman)
Cheers,
/Dirk
Hi Dirk,
thanks for the quick reply, will give it a try when my daughter takes her post-lunch nap (if she ever will ;)
Cheers,
Atze
Took a little as we spontaneously decided to have a little weekend trip ;) But yeah, that's it. Even though it the content is generated in the root (since you can only have one content channel per user and all of our editors are responsible for all of our website sections), they can move their content afterwards.
Thanks to rsoeteman. And the whole Umbraco staff for such an intuitive cms, i haven't read one single tutorial yet, but prototyping our page in Umbraco progresses flawless.
atze187,
Don't need to move content afterwards if you configure the content channel correctly.
If you set the 'Start Node in Content' to the node where the content should be posted using word, then you're set and don't need to move content afterwards.
Create as many users/content channels as you've got different types of content.
Each can have their own start node.
If you don't mind all editors to use the same user, then you'd get away with creating one user/content channel per content type. All editors will use same user/content channel for that type of content.
Cheers,
/Dirk
Dirk,
we want to include the editors name in the content, so having one user per content type is not an option (if i get you and the content channel concept right ;)
Cheers,
atze
Ha,
Indeed, got it right. In that case, AFAIK, you'll be doomed to create a new user per editor and per content type (which might make it quite complex when dealing with lots of content types.)
As said, it's a AFAIK, maybe someone else may have a nicer solution...
Cheers,
/Dirk
I just wanted to let you know, that i'm going to tell them to create content using the web interface and then edit using Word, but Word doesn't show any article in the list. Have to verify that.
There is a bug in MS Word which causes that you don't get a list of the documents (or was it that you cannot open the selected page? hmm? #-o ). I implemented a small MS plugin which uses a webservice to get the correct ID of the entry. If you need help mail me, Thomas (th at thoehler dot com, you can write in german)
Thomas
[quote=hoehler]There is a bug in MS Word which causes that you don't get a list of the documents (or was it that you cannot open the selected page? hmm? #-o ). I implemented a small MS plugin which uses a webservice to get the correct ID of the entry. If you need help mail me, Thomas (th at thoehler dot com, you can write in german)
Thomas[/quote]
Sooo, at the moment you cannot save a new document in Word and you cannot edit an exisitng document? Why is "word support" then on the Umbraco feature list? I nearly recommended Umbraco as a CMS for our company...
[quote=Steffen]
Sooo, at the moment you cannot save a new document in Word and you cannot edit an exisitng document? Why is "word support" then on the Umbraco feature list? I nearly recommended Umbraco as a CMS for our company...
[/quote]
You cannot edit (or better get) existing items by default Word options. This is a bug from Word reported to MS nearly two years ago. This isn't a bug from Umbraco. I also manged to have a workaround via webservices and a word ribbon addin.
btw: The html code word exports is nearly the same bad code as it is via copy paste. So really good editing via word isn't the option #1 independend from the cms.
Thomas
[quote=hoehler]
btw: The html code word exports is nearly the same bad code as it is via copy paste. So really good editing via word isn't the option #1 independend from the cms.
[/quote]
Oh, is it really like that? If so, i would need to adapt the portions of our current in-house cms, which parses the Word documents and generates the html by itself.
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