Comments on: New sample project for SP2010 Word Automation: UI

By: Peter Gerritsen

Peter Gerritsen — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 08:42:07 +0000

Hi Micah,

The only advise I can give you is to do some debugging. As I’m not involved in SharePoint development anymore, I don’t have the tools to do this myself.

Regards,

Peter

By: Micah

Micah — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:08:06 +0000

I can’t get it to work on an environment hosting SharePoint on multiple servers (i.e. diff server for web front end (2), app pools, and database).

What happens is when I click on the “Convert Document” icon in the ribbon the correct dialog opens but the dropdown for Output Library does not have the custom libraries for that site and when I click OK nothing happens and the dialog stays open.

Any help?

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:52:28 +0000

Ignore above, its working now.

Cheers,

Dave

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:37:05 +0000

Hi Peter,

Sounds like a great solution but I cannot seem to get it to work. I’ve added this solution, deployed it and activated the feature in the site features but the designer actions are not appearing in SharePoint Designer, am I missing a step in the configuration of the solution?

Cheers,

Dave

By: Peter Gerritsen

Peter Gerritsen — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:04:59 +0000

Hi Demetris,

In the codeplex version this is not included as a feature. I’ve created an implementation of this for a customer, but I’m not allowed to share this code unfortunately.
The way it worked was that it created an item in a root list with information about the conversion. On this list a timer job was running that checked if a conversion had finished and would copy the metadata when that was the case.

Regards,
Peter

By: Demetris

Demetris — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:59:45 +0000

Hi Peter,

Is there a way to copy some properties from the file to be converted to the new converted file.
For example, if we convert “doc1.docx” to “doc1.pdf” and “doc1.docx” has values for the columns “Title”, “Description”, “Category”, is there a way the new file “doc1.pdf” to inherit those column values ?

Thank you,

Demetris

By: jony

jony — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 02:29:33 +0000

My library did not show in “OutPut Library” drop down list

By: Dustin

Dustin — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 21:10:37 +0000

Is there a way we can convert Word doc to a one note document.

By: Paul Stankiewicz

Paul Stankiewicz — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 21:20:31 +0000

Hi Peter,
I would like to add a status message after the user clicks the ok button that says something like “Document is being processed” to give the user some feedback.

I tried adding something like this in the ConvertDocument.aspx.cs – btnOk_Click code but it didn’t work. Any ideas?

string myMsgString = “Processing File”;
this.Page.Response.Clear();
this.Page.Response.Write(string.Format(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture,myMsgString));

Thanks
Paul

By: Peter Gerritsen

Peter Gerritsen — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 20:00:00 +0000

Deploying the solution and activating the feature should be enough. Does the feature not activate or does it look like it doesn’t have any result?

After activating the feature on a site, each document library should have the extra button “Convert Document”