Office Launcher Installation
you can edit Working Item descriptions and Microsoft Office documents directly in Microsoft Office. However, this feature needs a simple setup on front-end computers.
Windows
Windows users must download and install the Codebeamer Office Launcher.
Linux
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Since OpenOffice and LibreOffice are not fully compatible with Microsoft Office, the editing operation for working item description does not work. However, editing Microsoft Office Documents from Document Management is supported.
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How to configure Firefox
1. Download the cboffice launcher.sh.
2. Ensure that the script is executable with the following command:
chmod a+x cboffice_launcher.sh
3. Enter about:config right-click and select New Boolean.
4. Enter network.protocol-handler.expose.cboffice and select value asfalse.
5. The first time you click on an URL cbofffice://, and Firefox prompts for a script should be used, select the downloaded office / cboffice_launcher.sh script.
How to configure Chrome
Download cboffice.desktop and read for instructions.
Troubleshooting
If a selected application does not start and an error screen is displayed, make sure that there is an associated application for the selected file type.
Example of a correct association for Microsoft Excel .xlsx files:
C:\Windows> cmd /c assoc .xlsx
.xlsx=Excel.Sheet.12
.xlsx=Excel.Sheet.12
C:\Windows> cmd /c ftype Excel.Sheet.12
Excel.Sheet.12="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE" "%1"
Excel.Sheet.12="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE" "%1"
If there are no associated applications, the commands will return empty results, for example:
C:\Windows> cmd /c assoc .xlsx
File association not found for extension .xlsx
File association not found for extension .xlsx
C:\Windows> cmd /c assoc Excel.Sheet.12
File association not found for extension Excel.Sheet.12
File association not found for extension Excel.Sheet.12
A default application for that file type must be selected in the Windows > panel:
For more information, see the official Microsoft support page on changing default programs: Change default programs in Windows.
Codebeamer Office launcher log files
The cboffice_launcher.log file is created if the Codebeamer Office launcher tool is installed. It contains the logs from the Codebeamer Office Launcher. The logs are useful to troubleshoot issues with opening files when no information is captured in the Codebeamer server logs.
The location of the cboffice_launcher.log file is the following:
%TEMP%\cboffice_launcher.log
On Windows, for example:
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Temp\cboffice_launcher.log
How to configure Office Edit in Codebeamer
To configure Edit via Office in Codebeamer, add the referenced section to Application Configuration see office edit section.