Only a browser is required, and no other software needs to be installed.īut what about people who don't want to entrust all of their data to foreign corporations, holding their data in foreign jurisdiction, in formats that may or may not be retrievable in the event that the supplier fails or changes 'strategic direction'? And many of these services involve 'mining' their data to extract useful information that vendors sell to others to help them advertise to us in a more targeted way. Similarly the collaborative editing of documents, spreadsheets, and presentations in the browser, pioneered by Etherpad, but then adopted in a big way by Google Docs (and more recently, Microsoft Office 365), has revolutionised collective note taking, document preparation, and ease of access to these powerful tools by the mainstream of computer users. Also, please note, we're using NextCloud with OnlyOffice (the open source community edition) these days.ĭropbox is the best known of the end-user 'cloud storage' services for documents, backups, and synchronising data among multiple devices, although now Google's Drive and Microsoft's OneDrive are functionally similar and are being heavily promoted and tied into all sorts of services. It might still be useful to folks, but use it with caution. The files can be reverted to the templates shipped with the release by running the occ richdocuments:update-empty-templates command.Update : this post is now getting a bit long-in-the-tooth, and I need to update it to use up-to-date components. Replacing empty templatesĮmpty template files can be replaced the existing files in appdata_/richdocuments/empty_templates/. So users can share templateįolders among each other.

This can be any folder the user has access to. In the Collabora user settings the user can select a folder from where to load There are a few special templates that are shipped with the app. But since it will also work on 13 we have no real alternative. Note: it might require some less pretty code to get the previews out of theĪppdata. These templates are stored in the AppData. System wide templatesĪn admin can configure system wide templates. The richdocuments works as a preview provider so it should provide Template locationīoth should be simple template files and preview for them should be obtained using This documents describes the flow andĪPIs that will eventually come into place.

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