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Plone ONLYOFFICE integration plugin

This plugin allows users to edit office documents within Plone using ONLYOFFICE Document Server - Community or Integration Edition.

The plugin allows to:

  • Create and edit text documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.
  • Share documents with other users.
  • Co-edit documents in real-time: use two co-editing modes (Fast and Strict), Track Changes, comments, and built-in chat.

Supported formats:

  • For viewing and editing: DOCX, XLSX, PPTX.
  • For viewing only: PDF, ODT, ODS, ODP, DOC, XLS, PPT.

You will need an instance of ONLYOFFICE Document Server that is resolvable and connectable both from Plone and any end-clients. ONLYOFFICE Document Server must also be able to POST to Plone directly.

You can install free Community version of ONLYOFFICE Document Server or scalable enterprise-level Integration Edition.

To install free Community version, use Docker (recommended) or follow these instructions for Debian, Ubuntu, or derivatives.

To install Integration Edition, follow instructions here.

Install plugin by adding it to your buildout.cfg:

[buildout] ... eggs = onlyoffice.connector

and then running bin/buildout

To enable plugin, go to Site Setup -> Add-ons and press the Install button.

To configure plugin go to Site Setup. Scroll down to Add-ons Configuration section and press the ONLYOFFICE Configuration button.

The ONLYOFFICE integration follows the API documented here:

  • User navigates to a document within Plone and selects the ONLYOFFICE Edit action.
  • Plone prepares a JSON object for the Document Server with the following properties:
    • url: the URL that ONLYOFFICE Document Server uses to download the document;
    • callbackUrl: the URL that ONLYOFFICE Document Server informs about status of the document editing;
    • key: the UUID+Modified Timestamp to instruct ONLYOFFICE Document Server whether to download the document again or not;
    • title: the document Title (name).
  • Plone constructs a page from a .pt template, filling in all of those values so that the client browser can load up the editor.
  • The client browser makes a request for the javascript library from ONLYOFFICE Document Server and sends ONLYOFFICE Document Server the docEditor configuration with the above properties.
  • Then ONLYOFFICE Document Server downloads the document from Plone and the user begins editing.
  • ONLYOFFICE Document Server sends a POST request to the callback URL to inform Plone that a user is editing the document.
  • When all users and client browsers are done with editing, they close the editing window.
  • After 10 seconds of inactivity, ONLYOFFICE Document Server sends a POST to the callback URL letting Plone know that the clients have finished editing the document and closed it.
  • Plone downloads the new version of the document, replacing the old one.

Clone repository and change directory

git clone --branch deploy git@github.com:ONLYOFFICE/onlyoffice-plone.git cd onlyoffice-plone

Create a virtualenv in the package

Install requirements with pip

Run buildout

virtualenv --clear . ./bin/pip install -r requirements.txt ./bin/buildout

Start Plone in foreground

./bin/instance fg

Note that Plone is based on Zope server and will not run as root user. If you intend to run it as root user. You must supply effective-user directive. In order to do so add effective-user <username> line to ./parts/instance/etc/zope.conf.
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