The Zoho Editor plugin opens office documents held in FileRun with Zoho's online editor, so they
can be previewed, created and edited in the browser, by several people at once.
There is no server for you to install: the editor is Zoho's online service. Your FileRun installation has to be reachable from the Internet, because Zoho's servers fetch the document from it and send it back when it is saved.
See Collaborative editing for the other editors FileRun supports.
Sign up for the Office Integrator service at zoho.com/officeplatform and copy the API key it gives you.
Open the control panel, go to Files → Plugins, select Zoho Editor and click Edit.
API key — the key from step 1.Zoho API domain — the Zoho data centre your account belongs to: US, EU, IN, CN, AU,
JP, SA or CA. A key issued in one data centre does not work against another, so this has to
match the account.When somebody opens a document, FileRun asks Zoho to create an editing session and remembers the Zoho document id on the file. A second person opening the same file joins that same document rather than starting a separate copy, so the edits appear to everyone at once. FileRun also sends each person's name, which is how the editor labels who is making a change.
The document id is stored as a hidden metadata value on the file. It is not shown in the metadata panel.
To make Zoho 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.
A user without permission to change the file is sent to Zoho's preview instead of the editor.