Question

I have no idea how to use the MsOfficeAttachmentsAsHTMLPlugin. Does anyone have a hint for me?

I installed the plugin, and the 'wv' package (with some suggested packages). But neither the Plugin site on twiki.org nor the installed Plugin site doesn't tell me, how to use it. I looked at the source, but I don't really get it (I'm used to the commonTagsHandler, which does not exist).

It is quite important for us, to finally get rid of those *.doc documents.

Environment

-- SusanneRuppel - 19 Aug 2004

Answer

I haven't actually used this plugin but from my reading of it, there's nothing really to do - just attach the .doc file and it will show up in the topic as html.

-- LynnwoodBrown - 19 Aug 2004

Unfortunately it doesn't - neither with http, nor with https (to exclude problems with the webserver).
All TWiki says in debug-mode is:
20 Aug 2004 - 09:29 - TWiki::Plugins::MsOfficeAttachmentsAsHTMLPlugin::initPlugin( Server.BbHtest ) is OK
but nothing else happens.
I've also installed imagemagick and perlmagick, which the author writes in his plugin (I don't really understand, why, though - I cannot find anything related in the code) - without success.

Well, it think about writing a commonTagsHandler, to make it run for us. (People keep asking for it...)

-- SusanneRuppel - 20 Aug 2004

You might try catching this plugin's author, MartinCleaver on TWikiIRC. He's on there quite a bit and I heard him comment there that he hasn't had time to check in on TWiki.org much recently. I confirmed with him yesterday that the initial feedback I gave you was correct. But he might be able to give you more ideas for trouble shooting. Good luck!

-- LynnwoodBrown - 20 Aug 2004

Thank you for the hint! With MartinCleaver's help I got my problem solved by patching: MsOfficeAttachmentsAsHTMLPluginDev.

-- SusanneRuppel - 31 Aug 2004