Question

MsOfficeAttachmentsAsHTMLPlugin page says that this is already installed but when I look in the data directory the files I would expect to be there (i.e. MsOfficeAttachmentsAsHTMLPlugin.txt and MsOfficeAttachmentsAsHTMLPlugin.txt,v) aren't. So first question is, 'is it installed and if not why does the plugin page say it is. I did check the support web and found HowToUseMsOfficeAttachmentsAsHTMLPlugin but although the user has solved her problem she did so chatting directly with the developer via IRC. She also mentions a patch that solved the problem. Fair enough - what patch and what was done to fix the issue.

BTW I'm simply assuming that once the plugin is installed successfully the document will automagically appear in the browser as html - is this correct.

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-- SteveMayes - 03 Feb 2005

Answer

Haven't made any progress since this was posted other than a comment I made on another page but which I'll repeat here.

I know the developer is still active on IRC but our company firewall quite rightly blocks IRC and although I can bypass it I'm not going to (I like my job). Martin(Cleaver) please spare a couple of minutes to clarify your documentation for those of us without the use of IRC, specifically in regard to the following question's:

• Is the plugin pre-installed as the documentation appears to imply?
• Is Imagemagic a pre-requisite as the code, but not the documentation, says - if so confirm this and I'll change the documentation (ya just gotta luv wikiwebs).
• The code also mentions to modified perl modules, Store.pm and Func.pm - modified how? and where can I get the modified modules?

I don't mind if you email me and, if appropriate, I'll update the plugin page with my own experiences of getting it working ( I've no doubt I will but I'd rather do it without having to dissect the code and all associated modules). Normally I'd just run strace and ptrace and a few other useful *nix utilities but company policy dictates XP / MS Server 2003 as the Platform so they aren't available (not even in Cygwin).

From further reading of the code it also appears that the modified modules may be referred to on another page, something about SaveBeforeAttachment - haven't had time to check yet, again a lot more useful to non-Technical twiki admins if it's in the documentation and not in the code itself.

-- SteveMayes - 08 Feb 2005

Martin is reachable at martin AT cleaver DOT org. I'm sure he wouldn't mind you mailing him directly.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 22 Feb 2005

Sorry Steve, I'm not reading TWiki.org / TWikiIRC much due to client commitments (and shamefully we still don't have a means to do Notification per topic).

1. Its not pre-installed. Please do change the docs.
2. I suspect that the comment referring to Image::Magick is erronous - I'd based the code on something that does need it, but I think that only wvhtml is needed.
3. Store.pm and Func.pm don't need modifying if you run CairoRelease or later (as Cairo adds the BeforeAttachmentSaveHandler)

-- MartinCleaver - 23 Feb 2005

Thanks for the feedback Martin, Is the 02September2004 release the Cairo version or later? I've had some lack of joy getting image::magick and perl::magic installed (not a twiki issue so I've haven't reported it back here) so I'm just going to try the wvhtml only approach. As I said above once I've got it working I'll update the relevant pages.

-- SteveMayes - 02 Mar 2005

Cairo release is 02September2004 release and PeterTheony updated my update much more neatly than I did, plus it appears as if a lot of work on the plugin has been done in the last week or two.

-- SteveMayes - 21 Mar 2005