Zope External Editor Client

This version has improved support for desktop applications like openoffice.org, ms office, gimp, etc.

Project Description

Features

Use External Editor to edit any file with your desktop softwares.

Zope External Editor allows to use desktop applications in order to edit any object. In the case of Files or derivates (any object that has a PrimaryFieldMarshaller), you can use ExternalEditor to edit your file. Every time you save the file, or when you close the file, it gets automatically saved back in the zope object.

The client of Zope External Editor is zopeedit.

This version is an updated version of zopeedit that takes care of applications that "fork". It is therefore possible to use it out of the box with OpenOffice.org, Gimp, or any other editor.

How to use ZopeEdit ?

In your Plone site:

1. Activate external edit in your Plone user properties

Under Windows:

1. Install the windows binary executable
2. Open your page in your web browser and click on the link 'edit with external application'
3. Associate the file with Zope External Editor and make it permanent (first time only)
   
4. The file is opened in the editor defined in windows registry
5. with certain editors,  a message will ask wether the edition is terminated or not ; keep it until you closed you file and say yes.
   

If you want to change your default editor for certain content types , or if you want to add proxy parameters, open Zope External Edit in your program files menu and change your local user configuration.

Under Linux:

1. Install the python file in /usr/local/file
   
2. Open your page in your web browser and click on the link 'edit with external application'
3. Associate the file with /usr/local/bin/zopeedit.py and make it permanent (first time only)
   
4. The file is opened in the editor defined in ~/.zope-external-edit
5. with certain editors,  a message will ask wether the edition is terminated or not ; keep it until you closed you file and say yes.
   

If you want to change your default editor for certain content types , or if you want to add proxy parameters, open a terminal and launch 'zopeedit.py' ; it will open your local user configuration in gvim.

What are the differences between ZopeEdit and other solutions ?

You may edit your contents using ftp, webdav or Enfold Desktop. The point using ZopeEdit is that you stay in the intranet.

You may use ARFilePreview and AROfficeTransforms if you wish to have inline preview and full text indexing.

You may use AROnlineDeskfile if you want to create you new files based on existing ones, without leaving the intranet.

What system does it work on ?

This version of ZopeEdit works on Windows XP, Windows vista + and Linux systems.

Mac users can use ZopeEditManager.

Credits

ZopeEdit is created by Zope Corp

and is publised under Gnu Public Licence.