Opening documents

After registering in the cloud, you can start working on documents stored there.

Connecting ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors to your cloud allows you to edit text documents, spreadsheets, and presentations without having a constant Internet connection and easily switch to the online mode for real-time co-editing (in case ONLYOFFICE Docs is integrated with your cloud).

Besides, using ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors you are no longer limited by your browser resources. It means you can:

• copy and paste from/into another document using the editor toolbar buttons and context menu options;
• print the document directly from the app using the Print option;
• use all the fonts available on the local computer;
• work with documents without prior manual language setting (it is set automatically).

To open a document in a new window / tab correctly:

Option 1. Use the window.open("http://url.to.document") JavaScript command, where URL to the document is validated by the editorPage value of the config. The document will be opened upon successful validation.

Option 2. Use the open:document command of the execCommand method. When this command is sent, the document is opened. Parameters are specified in the format of a string with the serialized json as follows:

{
  "url": "url to document",
  "type": "type",
  "provider": "provider"
} 

url

Defines the absolute URL to the opened document.

Type: string

Example: https://example.com/url-to-example-document.docx

type

Defines the type of the opened document if it is possible to define: word, cell or slide.

Type: string

Example: "word"

provider

Defines the provider id used to refer to the desktop app in the JavaScript commands (the same as in the config).

Type: string

Example: "onlyoffice"

Example

const params = {
  url: "https://example.com/url-to-example-document.docx",
  type: "word",
  provider: "onlyoffice",
}
window.AscDesktopEditor.execCommand("open:document", JSON.stringify(params))