As you can see on http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Office+Importer+Applica..., Office Import is bundled in XE so you need to install it. "Version 8.4.3 is installed as dependency" means exactly what is written: it is installed already in version 8.4.3 and it's been installed as a dependency of another extension. You get downgrade button probably because you are looking at a version of Office Import extension lower than the one installed already. On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 12:05 AM, novnovice <novnovice@gmail.com> wrote:

I wanted to import a word document to see how it does. I have xwiki 8.4.3.

The Office Importer Application needs to be installed, as far as I can tell. Next to it's name it says 8.3, and in the header it has "Version 8.4.3 is installed as dependency". It does not have the blue Install button; instead it says "Downgrade".

Dependencies listed are xwiki platform - office - importer 8.3 and then "version 8.4.3 is provided" xwiki commons - component - api and then "version 8.4.3 is provided"

I have not found anything in the docs that explain what this means, although I expect the info is there somewhere. Does it mean that I have to downgrade my installation to 8.3 in order to get this extension to install? But another extension "File Manager Application" does have the blue install button; and it has many dependencies on apparently older extensions like velocity macro 5.4.4.

I can't make sense of it. I've searched quite a bit and haven't found anything relevant.

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Thanks for making what must have seemed to be the most obvious reply of the recent period <g>. Since it seemed to me to be not installed, I couldn't interpret "is installed" as "is installed" <g> Now that you made it clear that it is bundled with 8.4.3, I see that I missed a critical item of information on the office importer application page: "The Office Importer requires a back-end Open Office server for its operations." I don't have exposure to open office for a long time now. I will check out getting open office server set up and hopefully that will help. Not sure if anyone has told you folks for a while - but xwiki is really impressive. I am just scratching the surface and it is a real treat. -- View this message in context: http://xwiki.475771.n2.nabble.com/What-does-Version-8-4-3-is-installed-as-de... Sent from the XWiki- Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

On the documentation page for the Office Importer Application that Thomas linked there are two sections that explain how to configure Open/LibreOffice as an internal / external service. See http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Office+Importer+Applica... Hope this helps, Marius On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 1:29 AM, novnovice <novnovice@gmail.com> wrote:

Re connecting openoffice and xwiki, Google finds https://network.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/view/DocXE51En/OfficeImporter and a similar page for 4.x; I can't find anything in the 8.x docs; probably missed it (google seems to have missed it too).

The closest is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP_N5U_GIJY which is for xwiki 7. Is the config for 7.x close enough to 8.x so that I can follow that guidance?

In the video there is mention of an option to manage internally or externally #-# [Since 1.9M2] #-# Type of the openoffice server instance used by officeimporter component. #-# 0 - Internally managed server instance. (Default) #-# 1 - Externally managed (local) server instance. # openoffice.serverType=0

Does option 0 mean that xwiki will expose openoffice configuration, as far as it pertains to xwiki? And would option 1 mean that the admin (probably an expert) would configure the relevant aspects of openoffice from "outside" xwiki?

Even more basic - as far as open office goes, I install oo, and configure it to run as a service? "openoffice server" isn't a separate product if I'm not mistaken, it's just oo configured to run in server mode?

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Yes this feature setup did not changed since a while. On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 3:30 AM, novnovice <novnovice@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks again Marius. I had not made it that far down the page, and it is well explained there. I see too that in the same are it links to the xwiki 7.x youtube video I'd found; that must mean that the video is still good for 8.x.

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On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 11:31 AM, Marius Dumitru Florea < mariusdumitru.florea@xwiki.com> wrote:

On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 4:30 AM, novnovice <novnovice@gmail.com> wrote:

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Thanks again Marius.

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I had not made it that far down the page

The problem is that the headings from the installation instructions section (at the end of the page) are not included in the Table of Contents (that is visible at the start of the page) and thus are easy to miss. We need to fix this.

I fixed it online on xwiki.org . I'll commit the changes.

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, and it is well explained there. I see too that in the same are it links to the xwiki 7.x youtube video I'd found; that must mean that the video is still good for 8.x.

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