On this page, you can find things to be aware of with the Digizuite™ Office Connector (from now on OC).
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Mac limitation
The OC has the following limitation for Mac users:
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- Find an existing Office document in MM (e.g. a Word document).
- Open the existing document.
- Open OC in the local Office application (e.g. Word), which has just been opened.
- Make changes to the document.
- Save the document with the OC - on Mac, the existing document in the DC can not be replaced but only saved as a new asset.
Upload/save functionality
A user must have the MediaPortal_Uploader role to be able to upload anything from the OC.
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It is possible to disable uploads from the OC completely from the ConfigManager with the configuration option "Disable Office Connector uploads".
Templates
When opening an Office template from through Digizuite™ Media Manager 5 or OC, the following behavior is expected:
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It is not possible to save PowerPoint templates (".potx") with the OC. Thus, if the OC is opened when working on a PowerPoint template (".potx"), and the document is saved with the OC, it will be saved as a regular PowerPoint document (".pptx"). The templates will be saved for Word and Excel.
Document titles
Remember that the following characters can't be used in titles of Office documents:
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It might not be possible to open certain documents if their titles are too long. The maximum allowed length of a title depends on the length of the base URL for the installed OC.
Opening existing documents
When trying to open existing documents from Digizuite™ Media Manager 5 or OC, a popup might occur in the Office application, stating that the file format and the file extension don't match.
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Please ensure that you are not actively editing a cell in Excel while opening the OC.
Office Online
The following Office Online applications are supported:
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When saving a document from an online Office application, the filename of the online document at the time the Office Connector was opened is used. Changing the title of the document in the online application while the Office Connector is open therefore doesn't have any effect.
Debugging
To check, if you have an issue with your manifest file, please try validating it with the following tool: https://github.com/OfficeDev/Office-Addin-Scripts/tree/master/packages/office-addin-manifest
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