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Open Office has no Browser Plugin in Istallation

Submitted by Guest on Thu, 06/09/2012 - 05:00
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Hi all I am trying to install openvpms on a Win7 x64 machine and following the instructions as was pleasantly surprised that everything ran to the letter until I installed open office and followed the setup instructions as there is no browser plugin.  Am I missing something here?
Also the next step loading swriter from the command prompt did not work eventhough I setup the path by copying and pasting the path straight from the site.

Can anyone please help here

cheers gerard

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Re: Open Office has no Browser Plugin in Istallation

Submitted by perthvetderm (not verified) on Thu, 06/09/2012 - 15:19.

I also had this problem. I switched to an older version of open office (3.3 i think) and that had the browser plugin.

Also had the same issue with swriter in the command prompt - nothing happened, despite double, triple checking i had the correct setup path.

 

not sure what I have done or not done?

 

Dave

Re: Open Office has no Browser Plugin in Istallation

Submitted by tanderson on Thu, 06/09/2012 - 15:20.

The OpenOffice browser plugin isn't required to use OpenVPMS.

From the OpenOffice docs:

Display documents in browser

Enables the Browser Plug-in to show OpenOffice.org documents in a browser window. Select, click OK, then restart your browser. Then, in the browser window, click a hyperlink to a OpenOffice.org document.

The plug-in needs a version of Mozilla, Netscape, or Firefox installed on your system.

There is an ActiveX plugin for Internet Explorer which can be installed by the OpenOffice.org Setup program.

That said, Firefox, or Chrome are the recommended browsers for OpenVPMS. Internet Explorer doesn't render the pages correctly in all cases, and keyboard shortcuts don't work as well, if I remember correctly.

 

What happened when you entered swriter from the command prompt?

 

-Tim

Re: Open Office has no Browser Plugin in Istallation

Submitted by perthvetderm (not verified) on Thu, 06/09/2012 - 15:41.

Thanks  Tim

 

nothing really - just got this error message

 

 

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
 
C:\Users\Sharon>swriter
'swriter' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
 
C:\Users\Sharon>

Re: Open Office has no Browser Plugin in Istallation

Submitted by Yuri on Thu, 06/09/2012 - 21:01.

The joys of software upgrades!

If you can't run swriter from a command prompt, it means that the path is not correctly set. You'll need to locate the Folder in which OpenOffice now resides: it may not be ";c:\Program Files\OpenOffice.Org 3\program" as in the tutorial. That's why that step is included in the tutorial - to ensure that the server can find OO.

As an aside, I had multiple problems trying to install OV - it took me many months to get an installation procedure that worked. That's why I decided to write the tutorial.

When I started, I was the "pc smart-aleck" who looked at the advice buried in these forums and thought, humph they're using deprecated versions of software, I'll use the latest versions - they have to be better! Then I realised that I knew nothing at all. I had problems with Tomcat7, but Tomcat6 worked straight up on first install; the most recent MySQL defeated me, so I would step back a version until I had something that worked. The latest MySQL Workbench might be a powerful bit of software, but I couldn't easily do simple things like a back up. The EOL version I have in the tutorial is a simpler bit of software that does everything just about all users will ever need - backup and restore (a tutorial on this topic will be uploaded here later tonight), the QueryBrowser is a simple way to poke around "under the bonnet". For example, by listing microchip numbers, I discovered that we have several microchip numbers that are 14 or 16 digits long, not 15 (which is why I asked for a character counter for the microchip field like the SMS window has).

HTH.

Yuri.

Re: Open Office has no Browser Plugin in Istallation

Submitted by perthvetderm (not verified) on Thu, 06/09/2012 - 22:22.

Thanks Yuri, appreciate your advice.

my computer skills are minimal to say the least. this is the third time i have installed Openvpms on a laptop for my wife and must admit the tutorial has made it faster this time. 

you were right about the location of OO

it was here

C:\Program Files (x86)\OpenOffice.org 3\program

i have changed the path, but still get the same error message after running swriter

any thoughts?

I guess this step is important? the program seems to run at the moment 

 

cheers

 

dave

Re: Open Office has no Browser Plugin in Istallation

Submitted by Yuri on Fri, 07/09/2012 - 10:35.

Dave said

i have changed the path, but still get the same error message after running swriter - any thoughts?

I suspect there's a typo in the path structure.  Open a command prompt window and type "path" <Enter>.  See if you can find the path C:\Program Files (x86)\OpenOffice.org 3\program;
 in the massive numbers of paths on the screen: make sure it has a semi-colon separating it from its neighbours.

Yuri.

Re: Open Office has no Browser Plugin in Istallation

Submitted by perthvetderm (not verified) on Sat, 08/09/2012 - 07:20.

Thanks Yuri. All sorted, the only difference I could find was a space between the m (of program) and the semi colon. appreciate your help.

Dave

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