collective.googledocsviewer 1.0b1

Use google docs viewer to display embed version of your office files

Introduction

Google docs viewer is a service provided by google tm: https://docs.google.com/viewer

This add-on add a view on the File content type. It display the file with the embed viewer. You can find a live demo at toutpt.makina-corpus.org/add-ons/collective.googledocsviewer/cv-jeanmichel-francois-fr/view

How to use it

Add a file content in your Plone site, make it publicly available (publish it) and select the google docs 'Google Docs viewer' view in the display drop down menu.

Next you can use the the 'Configure view' action provided at the bottom of the page to configure the size of the viewer you want to use.

How it works

It display an iframe built from your file's url.

For example, http://example.com/myfile/view will become

<iframe src="http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2Fmyfile&embedded=true" width="600" height="780" style="border: none;"></iframe>

Sizes are stored on site level in plone.app.registry or on context level with annotations.

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