Collaborative editing

ONLYOFFICE Docs🔗

ONLYOFFICE Docs is a self-hosted office suite that runs in the browser. With it, FileRun can preview, create and edit text documents, spreadsheets and presentations, with several people editing the same file at once.

Read Collaborative editing first: it explains the settings this plugin shares with the other editors you install yourself, including the rule that the editor's protocol has to match FileRun's.

Step 1: Install the ONLYOFFICE Docs server🔗

Follow the ONLYOFFICE installation guide.

For a quick trial with Docker:

 1docker run --detach --publish 9980:80 --restart=always --env WOPI_ENABLED=true onlyoffice/documentserver

Step 2: Enable WOPI in ONLYOFFICE🔗

FileRun talks to ONLYOFFICE over WOPI, which is not enabled by default. The Docker command above switches it on with WOPI_ENABLED=true; for any other installation method, follow Enabling WOPI.

Without this, FileRun cannot validate the server and the plugin will not work.

Step 3: Configure the FileRun plugin🔗

Open the control panel, go to Files → Plugins, select ONLYOFFICE and click Edit.

• Document editing service URL — the address of the ONLYOFFICE server, for example http://localhost:9980.
• Verify SSL certificate — leave it on unless the editor uses a certificate your FileRun server does not trust.
• Compact mode — hides part of the editor's toolbar, leaving more room for the document.
• Enable autosave — saves the document as it is edited, instead of only when the editor is closed.
• Zoom — the zoom level the editor opens at, as a percentage. 100 by default. See the ONLYOFFICE documentation.

Save. FileRun contacts the server and confirms with Document editing service successfully validated!.

Step 4: Choose when it is used🔗

To make ONLYOFFICE the editor that opens when a user double-clicks an office document, set it as the default under Files → Plugins → Defaults. Otherwise it is offered in the Open with.. menu.