Hi there,
At the moment I'm looking into the Office Connector with the goal to implement it for our business. Currently I'm only managing to save files to ARAS as new Document items. I.e. I have a .docx file appended to Document item Doc-001, open it in Word using the "Open in Office" action, edit it and then use the "Save and close" button in the ARAS ribbon in Word to save my changes to the file and upload it back to ARAS. Rather than create a new generation for my Document item and replace the old file relation with a relation to the updated file ARAS simply creates a new Document item (say Doc-002). This clutters up the maingrid with a number of versions of the same file. Edit a file 10 times and Doc-001 to Doc-010 are different versions of the same file. Work on multiple files and Doc-001 to Doc-999 are numerous versions of numerous files without much of a pattern to it.
Am I just configuring things wrongly here and is there a way to force the desired behavior or will I have to write custom methods to take care of all of this?
Kindest regards,
Remco van Oosterhout
Hello,
I'm not able to reproduce this issue in a test instance of 11.0 SP12 I have set up. If I use the "Open" button in the Aras ribbon within Word to open an existing document, that same document is edited when I click "Save and Close".
Could you let me know which version of Innovator and the Office Connector you are using. You can find the Office Connector version by clicking Help > About in the Aras ribbon within an office application.
Chris
Christopher Gillis
Aras Labs Software Engineer
Hi Chris,
We're using Innovator 11 SP12 build 6920 with Office Connector 11.0R7, build 1311.
As for operating system and Office version - we're on Windows 10 and use Office 365.
Another issue could be that the temporary file is saved in the user's OneDrive/SharePoint enviremont and the path it produces simply is too long to allow the file to be uploaded or there's some permissions issue going on there. For now, every time I want to reupload a file I first have to save it to a local directory. Perhaps this causes the Connector to view it as a new file and as such creates a new Aras Document item. Could that be the case?
So we've done some more testing. Turns out OneDrive/SharePoint was causing problems. When assigning a local folder as working folder for the Office Connector it performed as desired.
Are there any plans to make this work with OneDrive in the future?
Hello,
Looking in our records, it appears that a SharePoint and OneDrive integration is planned for the future of the Office Connector, but this integration has not yet been scheduled for a specific release. I'll pass this request along to the product manager for the Office Connector, and I'll reply here if they offer any additional information on the plan for this integration.
Chris
Christopher Gillis
Aras Labs Software Engineer