Office Launcher Installation

Since codebeamer 7.4.x and newer, editing Working Item Descriptions and Microsoft Office documents can be performed directly in Microsoft Office, however, this feature needs a simple setup on front-end PCs. On front-end PCs, Microsoft Office (on Windows: Office 2007 or higher) must be installed.

Windows

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Linux

How to configure Firefox

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• Ensure that the script is executable with the command below:
  chmod a+x cboffice_launcher.sh
• Enter about:config as shown below and create a New Boolean (right mouse click).
  
• Enter network.protocol-handler.expose.cboffice and select false as value.
• The first time you click on an URL cbofffice://, and Firefox asks which script should be used, select the downloaded office / cboffice_launcher.sh.

How to configure Chrome

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Troubleshoot

When a selected application does not start and a wrong error screen appears, make sure that there is an associated application for the selected file type.
The following commands to be typed into the console where .vsdx and Visio.Drawing.15 are parameters of the commands.

An example for Visio 2013 vsdx file check:

d:\>cmd /c assoc .vsdx
.vsdx=Visio.Drawing.15

d:\>cmd /c ftype Visio.Drawing.15
Visio.Drawing.15="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office15\VISIO.EXE" "%1" /ou "%u"

If one of the two commands returns with an empty result, a default application for that file type needs to be selected on the Windows Control Panel.

How to configure Office Edit in codebeamer

To configure Office Edit in codebeamer, add the referenced section to Application Configuration: "officeedit" section.