ONLYOFFICE Docs API vs WOPI

Application Programming Interface: describes the main methods that allow you to interact with different ONLYOFFICE components, including editors, thus giving you programmatic access to it.

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Web Application Open Platform Interface: REST-based protocol by Microsoft that defines a set of operations that enables a client to access and change files stored by a server.

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Integration via ready-to-use connectors developed by ONLYOFFICE or its partners.

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Integration via WOPI connector/universal WOPI client.

Switching between real-time and paragraph-locking co-editing modes.

Only real-time co-editing, switching between the modes is not available in the interface.

• Specifying the editor interface language
• Specifying the editor interface theme
• Disabling the chat functionality via the Chat menu button
• Displaying the customer information in the editor About section
• Editor customization is available through the parameters for controlling the toolbars appearance and hiding them, branding
• Passing templates to create a new file
• Passing a list of the recently opened files
• Connecting plugins

• Specifying the editor interface language
• Specifying the editor interface theme
• Disabling the chat functionality via the Chat menu button
• Displaying the customer information in the editor About section

Configuring IPs of trusted integrators (white list) which requests ONLYOFFICE Docs can accept.

Configuring IPs of trusted integrators (white list) which requests ONLYOFFICE Docs can accept.

Editing access control is based on JWT signature. The secret key is required to generate a file open request.

No restrictions

Verification of request from the ONLYOFFICE server is based on the JWT signature. The request is signed with a secret key, and this allows making sure that it is not executed by a third-party.

Verification of request from the ONLYOFFICE server is based on the private key signing the request and a public key which is written in the proof-key element in the WOPI discovery XML.

The basic actions of viewing, editing, co-editing, mobile viewing and editing, embedded documents viewing are supported.

The basic actions of viewing, editing and co-editing are supported.

• Download request in a different format
• Setting the Favorite status
• Displaying tooltip with the message

No additional actions

• Closing the editor
• Going to a file folder
• Switching from the viewing into the editing mode
• Renaming a file
• Opening a dialog of sharing access settings
• Opening the document version history
• Inserting images from the storage
• Mail merging
• Comparison with a document from the storage
• Getting the action link
• Request to save a file in a different format
• Getting a list of users for mentioning
• Creating a new file

• Closing the editor
• Going to a file folder
• Switching from the viewing into the editing mode
• Renaming a file
• Opening a dialog of sharing access settings
• Opening the document version history
• Inserting images from the storage
• Request to save a file in a different format

Getting a message with the document status informing about opening a file for editing, closing a file with no changes or closing a file which is ready for saving after editing.

• Locks file editing by an online office that requested the lock
• Refreshes the lock on a file by resetting its automatic expiration timer to 30 minutes
• Allows for file editing

• Viewing
• Editing
• Reviewing (only for text documents)
• Commenting
• Filling forms (only for forms)
• Modifying content controls (only for text documents)
• Modifying filters (only for spreadsheets)
• Copying to the clipboard
• Downloading
• Printing
• Renaming

• Viewing
• Editing
• Reviewing (only for text documents)
• Printing
• Renaming