[Zope-CMF] Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint with CMF

Andreas Jung Andreas Jung" <andreas@zope.com
Fri, 3 May 2002 13:51:32 -0400


----- Original Message -----
From: "Sion Morris" <s.morris@bangor.ac.uk>
To: <zope-cmf@zope.org>
Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 13:17
Subject: [Zope-CMF] Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint with CMF


> Hi,
>
> On the BasicCMFUsage movie, on zope.com, it shows MSWord File, Excel and
> Powerpoint as content types. Is that functionality available to ordinary
> CMF users?
>
> Having this functionality would help my case for having Zope as a web
> intranet application here at work. The type of site I have in mind is a
> store for every day  documents and communications. As most of these
> documents are created in MSWord, Excel and Powerpoint it would be nice
> if the CMF could index and display them. I have already tried
> NuxDocument but it failed to work on CMF1.2 (the author has been
> notified).
>

TextIndexNG has built-in support to extract contents from Word and
Powerpoint
files using external converters.  I have not tested it with CMF but it
should
not be a problem to add CMF support if needed.

-aj