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Re: Abicollab.net - A free web based collaboration service

Greg Conquest — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:00:32 -0000

Actually my version of abiword (2.6.8) has the <collaborate> <accounts> menu item. However, the only type of account it can link to is jabber, and there is NO HELP anywhere online about how to enter abicollab.net into this. I do see that version 2.8 includes this (http://msevior.livejournal...., but the ubuntu notes are still six months behind (http://abisource.com/wiki/I..., so there is no clue as to when 2.8 will be integrated into the repositories.

Re: Abicollab.net - A free web based collaboration service

Greg Conquest — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:10:38 -0000

Thanks, Ravi. It is not on my menus yet, but I will check again over the next few weeks :-)

Re: Abicollab.net - A free web based collaboration service

Ravi — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:15:42 -0000

Greg,
The latest version of Abiword has the collaboration option in its menu. And I believe you can seamlessly integrate Abicollab with Abiword and create, edit, store and retrieve documents from your Abicollab account.

It might take some time for the latest version of Abiword to be available in Linux repositories though.

Re: Abicollab.net - A free web based collaboration service

Greg Conquest — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:21:54 -0000

That's nice, but they caught my attention with this news release. I went to abicollab.net and registered an account, but it just sits there unused now. I can do all abicollab is now offering with google documents and almost any word processor.

This was something of a wasted publicity opportunity as I don't know if I'll notice when they make it functional from within abiword. Abi should have waited till they had all their ducks in a row.

Ravi, could come knock on my door when they get it all together ;-)

Re: Abicollab.net - A free web based collaboration service

Ravi — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:55:09 -0000

Thanks Farhadix. Corrected.

Re: Abicollab.net - A free web based collaboration service

Ravi — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:54:34 -0000

Yes, the Abiword on my machine also does not have this feature. I think they will be eventually bringing this feature to Abiword via a plug-in or something.

Re: Abicollab.net - A free web based collaboration service

Farhadix — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:38:50 -0000

correct the link: abicollab.net no abicolab.net in this line: Visit AbiCollab.net and give this new service a try.

Re: Abicollab.net - A free web based collaboration service

Greg Conquest — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:24:06 -0000

This looks interesting, but I don't see the option to save abi documents to the abicollab site from within abiword itself. You have to create a document first (in abiword), and then you use a browser to upload it. If this is a product demonstration, it is like selling shoes with no shoestrings.