New MS office document creation and viewing/editing of Office documents already created/uploaded in normal Folders & Files module as well as Legacy module is done through Online Office 365 module.

This feature (online Office 365 access) is available from both normal Folders & Files module & Legacy module.

Note: You can create MS Office documents at root level in Legacy module but this not possible in normal Folders & Files module.

• Users will create any new or open any existing MS office document (like MS word, MS Excel & MS PowerPoint) in ARC Facilities (web) and that document will open through Office online (like MS word document will open in Word Online) within ARC Facilities. The Office online is integrated with ARC Facilities. Any changes made in the document are saved and the original document (which is opened) hosted in ARC Facilities is updated or user can save the changed document as another document with a different name within ARC Facilities.
• The documents are opened in three modes – Edit (can make changes to the document and save the changes in the updated document), View (can view the document contents and can open that document in editable mode from here) & Read-only (can only view the document contents). 
  1. Newly created documents automatically open in ‘Edit’ mode (opens instantly after creation). To access documents in edit mode user needs to have Microsoft Online Office 365 commercial account (not personal account) with Online Office 365 subscription (license) assigned and activated for that account
  2. Previously created documents & uploaded documents with the latest compatible extension (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx) will open in ‘View’ mode where document contents are displayed. However, these documents can be opened in editable mode on click of a button from the ‘View’ mode (provided user have an MS commercial account with Office 365 license enabled)
  3. Uploaded documents with 97 to 2003 file extensions (.doc, .xls, .ppt) will open in ‘Read-only’ mode. The contents of these documents can only be viewed and no changes can be made on these documents.

Benefits are given below:

• Collaborate with members of the team in real-time. Multiple users can simultaneously edit the same document with the Office Online integration.
• Edit and see changes saved instantly. Most importantly, users can open and edit documents from within the application, and any changes will be automatically saved back to ARC Facilities.

Scope:

1. New file creation (word - .docx, excel - .xslx, PowerPoint - .pptx) - Only from web

2. File Upload (.docx,.xlsx,.pptx,.doc,.xls,.ppt)- web

3. Revision from web

4. New file/revision from Sync

5. New file/revision from Device

 Steps to create new Office document

Screenshot below displays the menu which appears after user clicks the ‘Plus’ button (in Legacy module):

Note: In this document, the Word Document creation is taken as an example, because the process of creating Excel & PowerPoint document is same as that of creating a Word document.

Screenshot below displays the document naming popup box:

Screenshot below displays the newly created blank document as a thumbnail inside the folder:

The newly created word document will have extension .docx (similarly, newly created excel file will have extension .xlsx while newly created PowerPoint document will have extension .pptx). 

As soon as you create this document, a document tile will appear within the folder inside which the document is being created and simultaneously the newly created file will be opened under a new tab (on your browser) with ‘Edit’ mode. To edit & save the document user needs to have commercial license to access Office 365 Online. If user is already signed in to Online Office 365 account then the document will open directly in an editable mode on MS Word Online portal as soon as user clicks the ‘Create’ button on the ‘Name your document’ popup box.

But if user is not signed in to their Microsoft Online Office 365 account (need commercial Office 365 subscription) or do not have an account, then Office 365 will prompt the user to sign in to their commercial Office 365 account. This commercial must have Online Office 365 subscription enabled.

Screenshot below displays the prompt to sign to user’s Office 365 license:

Screenshot below displays the Sign in screen where user needs to enter the email ID:

Screenshot below displays the password entering screen:

Screenshot below displays the document opened in word online in editable mode (demo screen):

User can update and save the document. The updated document is saved within ARC Facilities in its original location. Multiple users can work on the same document at the same time and changes will be available real-time simultaneously in edit mode.

Note: Hence, user needs to sign in to his/her Microsoft Office 365 account and have Office license assigned to his/her account in order to access the documents in ‘Edit’ mode.

 Steps to view and edit uploaded document

User can upload a word, excel or PowerPoint document in a similar manner to uploading a PDF document. Any uploaded document with file extension .docx, .xlsx and .pptx or any previously created document inside ARC Facilities (created using the options shown above) will open in ‘View’ mode on the Office 365 online portal while documents with file extension .doc, .xls & .ppt will open in ‘Read-only’ mode on the Office 365 online portal. The difference between the two modes is that the documents opened in ‘Read-only’ mode (with extension .doc, .xls & .ppt) will not have any ‘Edit’ button while documents opened in ‘View’ mode (with extension .docx, .xlsx and .pptx) will have an ‘Edit’ button to modify the document (in that case, user needs to have Office 365 Online subscription enabled in their commercial account).

Screenshot below displays a document opened in Word Online in ‘View’ mode:

User can click the [Edit] button to open the same document in editable mode (in that case the user needs to signed to his/her commercial Office Online account, otherwise app will prompt user to sign in and that account needs to have Online Office license assigned to it)

Screenshot below displays a document opened in Word Online in ‘Read-Only’ mode:

In this mode, user cannot edit the document and can view only.

Important points

Screenshot below displays the actions that can be performed on one or more selected Office files:

Screenshot below displays File history/versions screen:

Screenshot below displays the Word, Excel & PowerPoint documents with the document upload/creation menu inside any folder on the normal Folders & Files module:

• If any document is opened in edit mode, no revision will be created from file upload (web), sync, device for that document. If a user tries, he/she will encounter failure.
• If any document is opened in edit mode, every 15 min per user or on the closure of the document tab or on disconnection with backend, automatically a revision will be created if any changes have been made to that document. This works like auto-save in offline Office documents.
• Any new file or revised file uploaded from sync/device, it will be available on the web and vice versa.
• No office document can be created which have the same name as an existing office document. Automatically the application provides an extension “ – Copy(1)” and “ – Copy(2)” and so on beside the document name in case a document with the same name is already present.
• The user must have permission to upload files within the campus, then only the ‘Create Office documents’ options will come on clicking the red plus button (inside the Legacy module or any folder in normal Folders & Files module).

Screenshot below displays the ‘Upload Files’ permission at team level for a specific user:

Screenshot below displays the ‘Read Folder’ permission at folder level for a specific user: