Posted by sashkernel on November 9, 2012 at 3:29pm
My management had asked me to look into the possibility to edit and save MS Office documents stored on our Drupal based intranet without a need to save them locally and upload them.
Pretty much, I need to resemble a functionality that Office 2010 and SP 2010 have when it checks out files for editing and saves them back to the site without user needing to save it locally.
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feasible
It is feasible to build what you seek here, but it is really not trivial.
There are a number of things happening behind the office-client scenes. In order to allow the clients to operate out of the box with a Drupal server, you'd need to implement:
the rough idea of the complexity that sharepoint supports via is shown here:
for more insight on the server interactions see http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=9981
hope this helps,
pritish.