[ckan-dev] Previewing resources with Google Docs

Fri Mar 20 13:26:03 UTC 2015

I've flipped it over to the office docs, the PDF is missing-in-action,but is the XLS at http://liverpool.servercode.co.uk/dataset/lcc-payments-of-invoices-to-vendors-over-500-april-2012/resource/a03edab7-ccbb-4af8-89e6-032716e56d0c <http://liverpool.servercode.co.uk/dataset/lcc-payments-of-invoices-to-vendors-over-500-april-2012/resource/a03edab7-ccbb-4af8-89e6-032716e56d0c> any better?

Thanks for your help in checking this - useful to know it isn't *just* working (or not) for me.

Ross

> On 19 Mar 2015, at 20:45, Aaron McGlinchy <McGlinchyA at landcareresearch.co.nz> wrote:
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> Hi, I tried the links below, the pdfs worked great, but the xls gave an error and did not load at all.
> 
> That was using both Firefox and IE
> 
> Cheers
> Aaron
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> Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 19:09:04 +0000
> From: Ross Jones <ross at servercode.co.uk>
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> Hi,
> 
> After finally getting fed up with watching the Javascript loading spinner when trying to view Excel files (and only seeing the first sheet when it did load) I decided to try using the Google Docs preview which you can embed into your pages  ( docs.google.com/preview?url= <http://docs.google.com/preview?url=><URL>&embedded=true for reference).
> 
> So I wrote https://github.com/rossjones/ckanext-gdoc <https://github.com/rossjones/ckanext-gdoc> which is an IResourceView that does just that - it will allow you use use the google docs previewer for .doc, .xls, .xlsx and .pdf file.. Wrote is a strong word, there really isn't that much to it.
> 
> I've deployed in on a test site I have been playing with today, and you can (hopefully) see the pdf previewing just fine at http://liverpool.servercode.co.uk/dataset/lcc-payments-of-invoices-to-vendors-over-500-april-2012/resource/3bdb30bd-afb1-4f68-a680-4bcb1bbf7174 <http://liverpool.servercode.co.uk/dataset/lcc-payments-of-invoices-to-vendors-over-500-april-2012/resource/3bdb30bd-afb1-4f68-a680-4bcb1bbf7174>
> 
> Unfortunately, *and totally defeating the point of the whole exercise*, Google Docs Previewer seems to be having a tough day with XLS files today - http://liverpool.servercode.co.uk/dataset/lcc-payments-of-invoices-to-vendors-over-500-april-2012/resource/a03edab7-ccbb-4af8-89e6-032716e56d0c <http://liverpool.servercode.co.uk/dataset/lcc-payments-of-invoices-to-vendors-over-500-april-2012/resource/a03edab7-ccbb-4af8-89e6-032716e56d0c>
> 
> If anyone could find ten minutes to give it a try and see if it works for them, I'd be eternally grateful.  Well, for a while anyway, maybe not eternally.  If this does eventually work (it has before so I assume Google is just having a bad day) then I'll add some config options to allow you to specify which formats it will cope with (i.e. it also supports PPT but I refuse to believe it is possible to call anything in a PPT data).
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Ross
> 
> p.s. I was impressed on doing my first IResourceView just how easy it was to do - much easier than I imagined it would be. Give it a try ....
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