This plugin provides the option of using the Microsoft Office viewer for previewing both MS Office and OpenOffice documents as an IResourceView

------------Supported formats ------------

This plugin will attempt to preview the following formats

"DOC", "DOCX", "XLS", "XLSX", "PPT", "PPTX", "PPS", "ODT", "ODS", "ODP"

To install ckanext-officedocs:

1. Clone this repository into the place where you normally install extensions, by default this will be /usr/lib/ckan/default/src/

2. Activate your CKAN virtual environment, for example:

   . /usr/lib/ckan/default/bin/activate

3. Install the ckanext-officedocs Python package into your virtual environment:

   cd ckanext-officedocs
   python setup.py install

4. Add officedocs_view to the ckan.plugins setting in your CKAN config file (by default the config file is located at /etc/ckan/default/production.ini).

5. Restart CKAN. For example if you've deployed CKAN with Apache on Ubuntu:

   sudo service apache2 reload

Q: It doesn't work, my documents aren't previewing

A: For this extension to work, the documents to be previewed must be accessible to the wider internet, and will only work if you use a hostname, and not just an IP address.