Overview
End-users will have the ability to edit office documents from an Appian interface and store a new version of the document in Appian after saving the document.
Key Features & Functionality
You can use the Web Application Open Platform Interface (WOPI) protocol to integrate Office for the web with your application. The WOPI protocol enables Office for the web to access and change files that are stored in your Appian instance.
To integrate your Appian application with Office for the web, you need to have the following:
The sample application included in the download package showcases how this plug-in can be used. The function getembeddedofficeurl() can be used to generate a url which can be used in the Web Content Field.
The sample application also includes the following API's which are needed to embed office into an Appian application:
Hi Mark,
One question, this plugin makes an Appian instance a WOPI Server ?
Then, we could use any WOPI Client in our Web Content component (those Clients that can be embedded) to edit documents that are saved in Appian ?
thanks in advanced
Hi markansinkWe have a requirement to embed excel on the Appian UI and this Plugin seems to be useful for us. However, we are getting below error
I know this might be a silly question , can you please let us know how can we get WOPI Client URL??
Hi Edilberto,
The plugin and the example app will act as an WOPI host and could connect to any WOPI client if this client allows the connection.