http://www.aca-it.be/simpleedit Open all your documents with one single click in the editor of your preference. SimpleEdit will facilitate editing documents in Liferay by automatically downloading, checking out, locking the document in only one click. After editing you can upload it back to Liferay and SimpleEdit will take care of the uploading, checking in, unlocking and versioning. The download on your device will be deleted, so you can say goodbye to data scattering.

1. for Liferay

2. Editing
Liferay documents
just got simple

3. Once upon a time…
for Liferay
Liferay 4.0 Document Library (2006)

4. Liferay 6.2 Document Library (2014)

5. What didn’t change?

6. 1 Checkout to prevent concurrent updates

7. 2 Download to obtain a local copy

8. 3 Open the downloaded file

9. Make changes

10. 4 Edit the file in Liferay

11. 5 Upload the new version of the file

12. 6 Checkin to release the lock

13. “Hey! Wait a minute…”

14. There are alternatives
‣ MS Office integration
‣ WebDAV
‣ Liferay Sync

15. MS Office integration
✓ Integrated in the browser
✗ Only works on Windows,
Internet Explorer &
MS Office 32-bit
✗ Only works for Office files
✗ Needs active connection
to server

16. WebDAV
✓ Works for all files
✗ No file checkout
✗ Needs active
connection to server
✗ Creates new version
on each save

17. Liferay Sync
✓ Bidirectional sync
✓ Works for all files
✗ No file checkout
✗ ALL files are synced
✗ Creates new version
on each save

18. WebDAV
Liferay
Sync
MS Office integration
Conventional edit

19. SimpleEdit
checks out,
downloads
and opens your file
in 1 click

20. 1 Open with SimpleEdit

21. 1
2
Make changes

22. SimpleEdit
edits,
uploads
and checks in your file
in 1 click

23. 2 Finish editing
3

24. 2 Finish editing

25. Liferay server
SimpleEdit
SimpleEdit
Desktop client
hook
CMIS
connector
SimpleEdit
JSP hook

26. SimpleEdit
✓ Works in all browsers
✓ Works for all types of files
✓ No active server connection required
✓ Local copy is removed
✓ You decide when a new file version is created

27. for Liferay