redmine_preview_office

Plugin for Redmine. Show Microsoft Office attachments in preview pane. Supports .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx, .rtf, .odt

Use case(s)

View contents of a Microsoft Office file as pdf in Redmine's preview pane

Install

Install [libreoffice]:https://www.libreoffice.org (many linux distributions provide ready installers)
download plugin and copy plugin folder redmine_preview_office go to Redmine's plugins folder
restart server f.i.

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Uninstall

go to plugins folder, delete plugin folder redmine_preview_office

rm -r redmine_preview_office

restart server f.i.

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Use

Go to Administration->Information and verify if Libreoffice is available
On Issue show page click on a docx or other Microsoft Office attachment and view its contents in Redmine's preview pane as a pdf file

Have fun!

Localisations

1.0.1
- English
- German
1.0.0 - no localizable strings present in plugin

Change-Log*

1.0.3

cleaned code
added support for MS Windows platform

1.0.2

added option to embed preview via <object><embed>-tag or via <iframe>-tag

1.0.1

added check for libreoffice

1.0.0

running on Redmine 3.4.6