Question

"Is there a way to load a MicroSoft Word file to TWiki Topic instead of using attachment?"

We would like to go to the topic directly thru TWiki Search, it seems that we are not able to find the pattern within the attachment. Currently we cut/paste the whole Word doc to topic field and also add attachment to that topic, now the search worked but display is weird and also the table content link lost. My question is does TWiki have a feature/plugin to allow user to load Microsoft WordDoc and SpreadSheet into Topic field.

-- TWikiGuest - 11 May 2005

Environment

-- TWikiGuest - 11 May 2005

Answer

I have removed this question from Support.WebHome and created a new topic instead on behalf of an anonymous TWikiGuest.

-- FranzJosefSilli - 11 May 2005

MsOfficeAttachmentsAsHTMLPlugin should do what you want, shouldn't it?

-- FranzJosefSilli - 11 May 2005

Thank you Franz Josef for fixing this! It is nice to see how supportive the TWikiCommunity is!

-- PeterThoeny - 11 May 2005

I would like to copy/paste MS doc file to Topic field instead of using attachment. So you mean I can use MsOfficeAttachmentsAsHTMLPlugin for this?

If this is true, can you show me how to do it?

Thanks Kevin

-- KevinLee - 12 May 2005

You are right about MsOfficeAttachmentsAsHTMLPlugin not helping you out here, Kevin - the Word document is converted to HTML which is included as an attachment - hence not searchable by default.

One way to go is to use the SearchEnginePluceneAddOn to include the /pub dir in the search. Another is rewriting the MsOfficeAttachmentsAsHTMLPlugin to replace topic contents with the converted HTML (first option is the easier way to go, I guess :-)).

-- SteffenPoulsen - 12 May 2005

You don't say what OS your server is on but if it is IIS you could try the IndexServerSearchForMsIisAddOn

-- MartinCleaver - 13 May 2005

We are running Apache web server on Linux box.

I downloaded/installed SearchEnginePluceneAddOn, but don't know how to include /pub in search to make it worked.

-- KevinLee - 13 May 2005

Oh, sorry, the /pub dir it's included in the search pr. default, you don't have to do anything in particular to activate the it. I was just trying to state, that using the SearchEnginePluceneAddOn is one way to have the /pub dir indexed.

Do you have any troubles with the plugin? If yes, you might try to state your question in SearchEnginePluceneAddOnDev.

-- SteffenPoulsen - 14 May 2005

It's not working. Not sure what was missing. Any ideas how to contact Twiki Developers/Support?

-- KevinLee - 16 May 2005

One "nice to have" missing piece is a Windows clipboard based converter of Word docs into the TWikiML. This could be a small utility (executable or Word macro) that gets installed on Windows. The user could copy and paste between Word -- utility -- TWiki.

If you want a custom solution you could contact one of the CodersForHire.

-- PeterThoeny - 03 Jul 2005

It was actually the first question that was asked me by a new user: "how do i get all my Word docs into TWiki?". Because we want to go the wiki way, attaching these docs to topics isn't desirable.

A windows-based doc->TWikiML converter would be a total killer app for getting internal buy-in. I'm thinking about an option in File, Save as... [TWiki topic], which:

• converts embedded graphics and math into gif files
• translates Word formatting to TWikiML as much as possible, already incorporating links to the graphics in the correct place
• puts all gif files in a zip file
• users can now copy/paste text into TWiki
• users can upload zip file and presto! whole topic converted.

The reduction in user actions is enormous when there is more than one graphic present.

Although it doesn't improve TWiki, it will most definitely improve the TWiki experience.

-- JosMaccabiani - 03 Jul 2005

Sounds like you want the WebDav plugin to give you File > Save As plus the MsOfficeAttachmentsAsHTMLPlugin to convert attached word docs to HTML plus a hook to trigger conversion from a doc uploaded via WebDAV to materialise as a

IMO this is much better than a client side app that needs to cater to different OSs and has to be kept up to date.

-- MartinCleaver - 04 Jul 2005

Yes, server side would indeed be better. Could you finish your last sentence of the first paragraph? If you meant something like "... materialise as TWikiML formatted .txt file" then YES!

Would that be a big undertaking?

-- JosMaccabiani - 07 Jul 2005

Please see ExportWordToTWikiUsingVbaMacro for a way to convert .docs to TWikiML

-- JosMaccabiani - 09 Jul 2005

Jos created the MsWordToTWikiMLAddOn

-- PeterThoeny - 10 Jul 2005