This kind of an “online office” for Word and Excel (maybe Powerpoint too) files could be a kind of a “killer application”… In my opinion besides a fully working Carddav/Caldav support shared online writing is the thing a better “Owncloud” needs most. If i had some Christmas wishes open i would li…

Now there is a Collabora Online Connector available: https://apps.owncloud.com/content/show.php/Collabora+Online+connector?content=174727

I do like the simplicity and minimal dependencies of the WebODF approach. The big drawback, is that the underlying engine of webODF, unlike LibreOffice, only supports odt at a level beyond viewing being a technical preview at this stage, so we’re not likely to see the ability to use spreadsheets or …

I would agree that adding an app that interfaces with LOO would be a good solution. Such an app could be configurable to use the local Linux client as well.

[image] nullnvoid: ud should support online documen I concur with most of this post, collaboration and online editing should be an integral part of the core of NextCloud. Looking forward to test this new environment and hopefully it will be a smooth transition from OC to NC.

Just tried COOL V1.0 and it works pretty well for text documents. It feels like you’re using a slow computer, but it doesn’t really matter if you’re making corrections or adding comments. It’s unusable for presentations, you’ll quickly open the laptop and download the file instead of trying to do a…

[image] oparoz: Just tried COOL V1.0 COOL? What’s COOL? I haven’t heard of it, unless it was by another name…

So when are we going to get this??? I intend to upgrade my owncloud instance at the first sign of a new owncloud/nextcloud stable version which includes LibreOffice Online in an easily installable form.

[image] Bugsbane: COOL? What’s COOL? I haven’t heard of it, unless it was by another name… [image] Collabora Online - Collabora Office and Collabora Online Entdecken Sie die open source online Office Suite für Unternehmen und Verwaltungen, die Zusammenarbeit bei Sicherheit und Dat…

well you do make COOL sound bad. I hope they can increase performance… When I played with CODE it seemed quite OK, performant enough. I hope there’s room for optimization :wink:

The good thing is that anybody can ask to play with the demo and make up their own mind :). I tried to look at it from the perspective of someone who would want to use it on the road, not a geek :wink:

LibreOffice Online... please!

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Sorry, I thought it was mentioned in this thread, but that was in another one: