Smart Client Authoring

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re: Smart Client Authoring

Akif — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 10:04:52 GMT

Hi George,

I have started both the load balancer and launcher services, and have configured Word-Web page conversion. But when I try to convert a document, it gives an expected error or sometimes CE_Other and failed to convert the document. I m using Beta 2. Am I missing some other configuration or there is some spefic user account rights required for the services.

Thanx in advance

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Robert Orleth [MSFT] — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 20:05:52 GMT

CE_OTHER is a fairly generic error code (not covered by the more explicit error code, hence the name). It means that something went wrong trying to fire up the converter. I've seen this in two major cases:
1. when trying to do the conversion on a DC (domain controller) - that's not supported because the converter is executed in the context of a very unprivileged local account, and there are no local accounts on DCs.
2. when the server is locked down and the users group doesn't have the privilege to logon locally. In order not to have to undo your lockdown, go to the group policy settings and allow the local account "HVU_<yourmachinenamehere>" to logon locally. The password to that account is set randomly every time the document conversion services start and the account has no rights to see anything except the directory that the conversion is happening in, so that's not exposing your server to a big risk.

Hope that helps.

Robert

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Akif — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 09:18:12 GMT

Thanx man. It was really helpful as I m running DC, SQL and SharePoint on the same machine i.e. my test machine.

One more thing I want to know:) that whether can I use the account that I am using for SharedServices with Document Conversion services or I need to create a newer one.

Thanx again for quick and helpful reply.

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Nick Swan — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 16:09:27 GMT

what happens to any images you have embedded in your word documents?

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Nick Swan — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 16:10:44 GMT

what happens to any images you have embedded in your word documents?

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George Perantatos — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 00:19:22 GMT

Nick, embedded images and drawings get dropped. Linked images (those that link to a URL-addressible location, like http://server/library/foo.jpg) will get preserved as <img> tags. Links will get preserved as <a> tags. Interior links in the document (like bookmarks to headings in the document) will get preserved as well.

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George Perantatos — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 00:21:22 GMT

Akif, you shouldn't have to setup a unique account for using document conversions on a non-DC. If the account that you're accessing the web site with has access to upload a document and create a new web page, you should be able to use the document conversions feature.

Let me know if I missed the point of your question. :)

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Syed Akif Kamal — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 11:18:04 GMT

what abt the DC environment. Now I tried to use it in a restricted farm environment. I have SQL, DC and SPS all in different machines. I set up a service account for the SPS services which does not have interactive logon rights. Now Iassign that account to the document conversion services. But when I tried to convert the document, it gave me error CE_Other. When I checked the evet viewer, it showed me the logon\logoff for HVU_machineName failed which is the account created by SPS for document conversion. When I enabled it and gave it rights to logon, it is still giving me error. I didnt give this account interactive login rights.

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Robert Orleth [MSFT] — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:23:25 GMT

You don't need to setup a different service account - the conversion services create and maintain that one. The account settings may be a little confusing - you need to give HVU_machinename account rights to logon locally. To do so, use gpedit.msc, go to Computer Configuration->Window settings->Security Settings->Local Policies->User Rights Assignment, select "Allow logon locally" and add the HVU_machinename account (all the names here are of course assuming English OS version).

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Syed Akif Kamal — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 09:35:52 GMT

I tried this as well but it is still not working. Now the event log is not showing any kinds of error but still when I try to convert a document, it gives me error CE_Other :)

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Robert Orleth [MSFT] — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 04:01:22 GMT

Odd. One thing you can try (since you apparently played around with the account), is to delete the account and restart the Document Conversion Launcher services - that will recreate it. Another thing would be to go look at the ULS logs (in %program files\common files\microsoft shared\web server extensions\12\logs) and see whether they contain a better hint as to what precisely went wrong.

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Syed Akif Kamal — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 08:42:02 GMT

It is till not working. Here I will like to mention few more thinfs:
1. I m not network admin:) So I dont know in detail about the group policies being used
2. Wheneve HVU_machinename account is created, it is disabled and I have to enable it.

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Robert Orleth [MSFT] — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 19:16:48 GMT

1. You don't need to be network admin, just local admin. Assuming your domain admin doesn't have other ideas, at least.
2. A-ha ! The account gets created/enabled when the Office Document Conversions Launcher starts, and it gets disabled when it stops. If it's disabled, check whether it's running, or start it ("net start dclauncher" from a command line, or use the Services MMC applet).

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Syed Akif Kamal — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 08:31:08 GMT

I have started the document conversion service and it is working fine. I have checked the HtmlTrLauncher folder. When I initiated a document conversion routing, it creates a temp file with web.config that folder. It means it is doing tis work but in Task Manager, I m unable to see the DocXPageConverter. I have tried it on 2 machines and both machines are giving me the same error.

Thanx for ur time

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Syed Akif Kamal — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 08:39:58 GMT

Can you tell me one more thing. When we use InfoPath form service to view an InfoPath form in web browser, does it use the Document Conversion service to tranform the form or it is the custom logic of form service because it is working perfently in my case.

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George Perantatos — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 18:06:13 GMT

Hi Syed, in regards to your second question: InfoPath forms viewed in the web browser do not get generated using the document conversions feature.

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Robert Orleth [MSFT] — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 00:32:47 GMT

Regarding your first question: yeah, not seeing the executable start up is what I'd expect if the error code is CE_OTHER (as it means it couldn't fire up the executable). The last thing you could try is to delete the HVU account and then restart the launcher service to have it recreate it. If that doesn't work (it probably won't as you see the same symptoms on another machine), you'll have to start looking into the local account policies on your machines - they probably prevent the account from logging on.

Another thought, looking back through the history here, you wrote
> I set up a service account for the SPS services which does not have interactive logon rights

Check that the launcher service is running as "Local System" and the load balancer as "Local Service" (as they do by default)

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Syed Akif Kamal — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 11:02:04 GMT

I am still unable to configure it. Now I am using an network administrator account for document launcher service and network service account for load balancer as local service account is blocked. I have given HVU_machineaccount administrative rights but still I am getting the same error.

Can you tell me which folder it is using for conversion as User profile folder is on remote network location not in the local machine.

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Kelvin — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 10:17:06 GMT

I am actually having problem when trying to convert a word document to web...

Error Msg:
The attempt to create a page from that document failed with the following error: Converting the document to a page failed. The converter framework returned the following error: CE_BACKENDUNAVAILABLE

anyone able to help? been trying to recheck all the operation services in central admin site... all are running and active... still unable to solve...

my email... ketweng@hotmail.com

re: Smart Client Authoring

Robert Orleth [MSFT] — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 02:13:11 GMT

Syed:
I'd highly recommend not changing the account that the load balancer/launcher service are running under. Though I bet the problem lies indeed with the User profile folder being on a remote network location in your case - the account is a machine-local account, and I don't see how it would gain access to a remote network share unless it's completely wide open. I am curious - why did you/your company set it up like that ?

Kelvin:
That error code means the load balancer service couldn't find a launcher service to take the conversion job. There were a couple of issues in Beta2 with that - all of them (as far as I know) can be worked around by recycling the launcher and the load balancer service. Note that you'll need to restart the launcher service AFTER restarting the load balancer as the launcher registers itself on startup with the load balancer. IOW, do this from a command line:
net stop dcloadbalancer
net stop dclauncher
net start dcloadbalancer
net start dclauncher

Hope that helps,

Robert

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Sami Assaf — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 16:41:06 GMT

How can i enable the document converter for the web application before configuring it.

Thanks

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George Perantatos — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 08:02:18 GMT

Sami, out-of-box converters should already be enabled (via farm-level features). If you go to Central Administration -> Application Management -> Document Conversions and enable document conversions for your web application, the out of box converters should already be listed.

If you have custom converters, all you need to do is to a farm-level feature that registers your converters, and then they will be available to all web applications which have document conversions enabled.

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Kristie — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 06:50:14 GMT

Hi - I'm wondering if you might be able to help.

I'm trying to convert a document and also getting the same error as Kelvin:

"The attempt to create a page from that document failed with the following error: Converting the document to a page failed. The converter framework returned the following error: CE_BACKENDUNAVAILABLE "

I followed the advice to stop/start the Load Balancer and Launcher and that didn't work:( I also then did an iisreset to see if that would help - but still I get the error above.

Is there any other advice you might have to be able to fix this? Or Kelvin - did this stop/start method work for you?

Thanks heaps in advance

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Erik Bo Sørensen — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 05:12:55 GMT

Hi George,

Great article - though I've some trouble managing .docx on my web-server - everything works just fine on my intranet.

I'm still looking for an effective way of styling converterted Word-documents - could you ellaborate a little more on the "boom!" part in your article. 'cause my converterted Word-documents look rather messy - do you have a .css, you could share (It seems like a tedious job to pick out the style-parts of converted Word-documents and tranform them to a decent .css)

Best regard

Erik Bo

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ErikBo — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 17:45:23 GMT

Hi,

are comments blocked?

I tried to drop some insightfull ...

But the dont seem to get posted

Best regards

Erik Bo

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ErikBo — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 18:06:30 GMT

OK,

Thanx for a great article - everything works just as described ...

Most of the time on my intranet site: though it sometimes (sic!) tells me: "The selected site does not have the Publishing feature enabled" nomatter what site (including Publishing sites!) I try to publish to!

Never on my internet presence site, where the document library wont accept .docx-files only .doc (sic!)

But anyway, could you ellaborate a bit on the "boom!"-part. To me it seem to be a tedious job to pick all the style instructions from a Word-document converted to "HTML", copying these instructions to a .css, applying the .css to the master og pagelayouttemplate, hoping ...

Do you have / know where to find a decent .css for the pupose - my converted Word-documents have all sort of strange styling modified in the html ...

Best regards

Erik Bo

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ecmblog — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 00:34:03 GMT

Hi Erik, the basic styling story is:

- Word styles are converted to CSS styles (<p class="...">...</p>)

- Inline formatting in Word is converted as inline HTML styles (<span style="...">...</span>

My recommendation would be to build a CSS stylesheet that overrides CSS styles for the documents you're trying to convert. If you can have your documents be created from a document template, then you can control what Word styles are available to authors (thereby letting you predict what the CSS class names will be). Furthermore, you can even restrict inline formatting in a Word doc template to force authors to use Word styles (so you don't have lots of inline formatting that you can't override).

There's an out-of-box CSS in the Style Library that does this for a handful of default Word styles (RCA.CSS) - it's loaded by the default SCA layout (article page with body only). So, if you use things like heading1, heading2, etc., you'll see those styles take effect if you choose to "remove styles" when configuring SCA, as opposed to "keep styles".

Hope this helps,

--George

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ErikBo — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 03:56:52 GMT

Thanx George,

your answer helped.

Have you any idea, why I can’t persuade the document libraries on our internet presence site to accept .docx documents?

The rca.css looks all right, but I ended up with a 1.000-line .css (ebs.dk uses highly structured documents with many (danish) styledefinitions overriding the default very american Office-styles).

I was on the right track though:

* all ebs.dk documents are created equal (from the same startW- and document templates)

* company-policy is: never modify layout - always use styles from the ebs.dk-style library, if you still cant do want you want: order a new style

* all Content Columns, Office Custom Properties and ebs.dk-Schemas are mapped

All pages on www.ebs.dk are created from .docx saved as "filtered html" with removed style definitions using our 1.000-line .css - with literally no modification.

Nice to see the way Office 2007 supports structured documents.

The project has had a side effect in cleaning up the ebs.dk-styles!

Best regards

Erik Bo

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Robert Orleth [MSFT] — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 21:58:18 GMT

Regarding the .docx issue: what content type settings is the doc lib using ? How do you try to get the .docx file in, and what is the error you get ?

Regarding the intermittent failure with "publishing feature not enabled": are you positive this is truly intermittent (i.e. is there a site that you can sometimes publish to and sometimes you can't) ?

Thanks,

Robert

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ErikBo — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 11:15:08 GMT

Hi Robert,

thanx for taking your time to address our problems

Sorry for getting back this late - I had to make a business & pleasure trip to Stockholm ...

ad .docx:

The doc lib uses 3 custom Content Types:

CT_wwwSubPages (used by pages published on subsites)

CT_wwwSub (used by welcomepage published on subsites)

CT_wwwTop (used by welcompage published on topsite)

When trying to publish from Word2007 > Publish > Document Management Server >

I can see the www server - but no document libraries!

(in View All Site Content I clearly see the document libraries "Documents", Site Collection ... (This system library was created by the Publishing feature to store documents that are used on pages in this site.)

So I save the document as testing.docx and try to upload testing.docx to the "Documents" library.

But the dissapointing result is an SharePoint error: "Cannot process the file Documents/testing.docx."

So I save the document as testing.doc and try to upload testing.doc to the "Documents" library. No sweat.

ad intermittent failure:

I have in the past published (converted to webpage) a couple of documents - but now the feature seem to have gone?

When I try to publish to a subsite (e.g. "samarbejde") I get the error: The selected site does not have the Publishing feature enabled.

When I go to Intranet > Samarbejde > Site Settings > Site Features Office SharePoint Server Publishin is "active"

When trying to publish as .docx from Word2007 > Publish > Document Management Server >

I can see the Intranet Server and the document library "DocLib".

Word ask's for the mandatory Content Columns

"Retry save" creates an error: "Word did not save the document".

When publishing as .doc -> No sweat.

Did this clarify anything?

Best regards

Erik Bo

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ErikBo — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 20:37:17 GMT

Post Scriptum!

While upgrading (i.e. reinstalling!) the Intranet to MOSS RTM I noticed:

1. I had Office 2003 Web Components installed on the MOSS server

2. When recreating my Content Types I got warnings against using the Content Columns: Image Caption, Page Content and Page Image when saving directly from client program

Dont know if this is of any significance ...

Best regards

Erik Bo

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ErikBo — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 21:24:47 GMT

Post post scriptum,

Getting rid of the Content Types Image Caption, Page Content and Page Image made publishing a .docx to a DocLib on our Intranet using our custom Content Type succeed!

Afterwards also Document Conversion on our Intranet to the default "Press Releases" using the associated PageLayout inherited from the BuiltIn Page Content Type succeeded!

I suspect, that everything will work fine when I dare to upgrade (reinstall?) our internet presence site ...

Thanx

Erik Bo

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bmxbadger — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:25:44 GMT

When I try to convert a document I get an error message saying: The 'Pages' document library is missing. Do you know where I should check to see if this folder exists?

Thanks

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Robert Orleth [MSFT] — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 20:26:47 GMT

bmxbadger, this sounds like you either disabled the Publishing feature (which creates the Pages library) or managed to delete it in another way. Make sure the Publishing feature is enabled, or try to create a page manually in the target site to narrow this down - I don't think this can be specific to SCA.

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ecmblog — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 20:49:18 GMT

bmxbadger, does the target site for conversion have the Publishing feature enabled?

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jeon — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 11:36:06 GMT

Hi Robert.

1. How can i use SPFile.Convert() method to convert a docx file to html?

2. How can i convert a doct file to html? Can I use default converter from MOSS?

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Robert Orleth [MSFT] — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:34:04 GMT

1. I was about to just point you to the documentation when I realized that several things appear to have gone horribly wrong there.... check out http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.spfile.convert.aspx and make following notes:

a. you can leave handlerAssembly/handlerClass as NULL - this lets you specify a callback function that gets invoked after the conversion is done (in the normal SCA case, this takes the HTML and stuffs it into the page).

b. pass the GUID of the Docx converter as ConverterID, you can get that from the manifest, it's "6dfdc5b4-2a28-4a06-b0c6-ad3901e3a807" for the docx converter.

2. I don't know, I haven't tried and I haven't looked at the .doct format. What's your user scenario here, what do you gain from transforming a template (which is normally void of content) to HTML ?

Hope that helps,

Robert

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Teng Wu — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:48:37 GMT

Hi,

my problem is, when I save a .doc-file as .docx-file which contains a lot of pictures and want this to be converted to html, I get the error message:

'The converter cannot complete the task because an internal error occured'.

When I look into the system event logs:

Office SharePoint Server in the category Publishing gives the error:

Error 'CE_OTHER_BLOCKLIST' when trying to convert document to page using the doocument conversion feature.

Do you know anything about this?

Thanks in advance,

Teng Wu

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Jim — Tue, 01 May 2007 16:07:19 GMT

Is there a way to automate SCA? I do not see a way to start a document conversion from a SP Designer workflow. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Jim

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Robert Orleth (MSFT) — Tue, 01 May 2007 19:24:51 GMT

Sure - get the Microsoft.Sharepoing.Publishing.PublishingPageCollection object of the site you want the page to be created in and then call the Add overload that takes an SPFile object:

PublishingPage Add(string newPageName, SPFile fileToConvert, Guid transformerId, PageConversionPriority priority)

with the transformedId of the converter you want to use - the GUIDs of the inbox converters are here:

DocX: "6dfdc5b4-2a28-4a06-b0c6-ad3901e3a807"

DocM:"888d770d-d3e9-4d60-8267-3c05ab059ef5"

InfoPath:"853d58f5-13c3-46f8-8b81-3ca4abcad7b3"

XML: "2798ee32-2961-4232-97dd-1a76b9aa6c6f"

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Marco Schmucker (alegri) — Thu, 03 May 2007 16:13:39 GMT

Hi,

is there an easy way to create a publishing workflow from a doclib where a WORD doc template is stored as content type for "new", and when the document is approved, it is auto converted to a MOSS page? Is this possible with SP Designer, or only programmatically? Thanks, Marco

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sumit — Tue, 08 May 2007 12:29:16 GMT

When i convert the document i get the error

"This document is being converted by another user. Try converting this document again later"

Even if i upload another new document, if gives the same error.

Error in Event Log is

This document is being converted by another user. Try converting this document again later.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Can anyone help me to sort this out.

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alarsen — Thu, 24 May 2007 19:42:01 GMT

I am having the same issue as "Monday, March 19, 2007 10:48 AM by Teng Wu" when converting a .docx document that was originally created as a .doc file. Is there resolution to this issue?

Thanks

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Robert Orleth (MSFT) — Thu, 24 May 2007 20:44:04 GMT

CE_OTHER_BLOCKLIST means the converter crashed. I got a handle on Teng Wu's issue. Can you send me a version (without any sensitive/confidential information/otherwise not intended to share) of *your* docx file that the converter barfs on, by clicking on the link on my name ? (Don't think that allows attachments, but I'll reply back to reveal my email address). Thanks,

Robert

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Sienna — Tue, 29 May 2007 18:03:38 GMT

Hi,

I am getting the below error while trying document conversion. I tried everything given in this page but its still not working. Please help!!

And after deleting the HVU_<Local Machine> it is not getting recreated even after stopping and starting the server.

The attempt to create a page from that document failed with the following error: Converting the document to a page failed. The converter framework returned the following error: CE_BACKENDUNAVAILABLE

Regards,

Sienna

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deb lucia — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:18:16 GMT

Hi -thanks for the info. Is there a special plug-in that needs to be loaded in order to see the option "convert to" once the doc has been loaded to a list? I created the page where I can publish to, but I am never seeing the option for converting the doc? Please advise. Thanks.

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c. cosa — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:49:54 GMT

What deb said. Is there any special configuration to get a custom document converter to display as an option in the 'Convert Document' flyout menu?

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Robert Orleth (MSFT) — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:59:20 GMT

deb:

To get the "convert to" dropdown to show up, you need to enable the document conversion services for you web app in central admin. By default they're disabled in a "normal" farm config. The "standalone" configuration is the only one that has all services enabled by default as that is typically only used for evaluation.

c. cosa: to get a custom document converter to show up you need to install the custom document converter and enable the services. A sample for how to do that is in the works.

Hope that helps,

Robert

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Andamuthu — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 07:23:02 GMT

George,

When I try to convert a document .I get an error message saying: The 'Pages' document library is missing.

Coluld you help me on this.

Thanks,

Andamuthu K

re: Smart Client Authoring

Robert Orleth (MSFT) — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:09:12 GMT

That means the publishing feature isn't turned on in the site you're trying to convert in. There used to be a friendlier error message explaining that, but an unrelated change late in the product cycle broke it.

For you and everybody else who has used this blog as Q&A - note that there is also a regular forum

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=1213&SiteID=1

that you can turn to for help - many more people read that (and post helpful comments).

Robert

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mitesh — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:34:10 GMT

I've problems managing .docx files - can i use smart client authoring ??

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George Perantatos (MSFT) — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 02:44:37 GMT

Hi Mitesh, can you provide more details on what problems you're having managing .docx files?

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Hanif — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:53:22 GMT

Hi All,

Is it possible to save a infopath form as a webpage?

when the user submits the infopath form, it should be saved in page library as web pages.

re: Smart Client Authoring

Robert Orleth (MSFT) — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:58:26 GMT

Hanif - in general, yes. You'll need to upload the .xsn that contains the form, configure the conversion to use that .xsn and specify which view and then you can use the "Convert To" dropdown on any InfoPath XML of the configured content type.

Note that the InfoPath conversion only works with data that exists WITHIN the InfoPath .xml file - in other words, if you are using data connections to outside data, that won't show up after the conversion.

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Craig — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:39:50 GMT

Nice, but how can I map the document properties to page meta data?

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Chris — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:10:25 GMT

Hi i am having a problem with the document conversion and i am getting the error "Converting the document to a page failed. The converter framework returned the following error: CE_DISKWRITEERROR "

in the event viewer it says "Could not find a part of the path 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\12.0\Bin\HtmlTrLauncher\input.docx'"

the folder HtmlTrLauncher and file input.docx do not exist.

the HVU_<machine name> user can log on locally

Thanks

re: Smart Client Authoring

Said — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:21:26 GMT

Hi,

A bit late !!

Create this folder manually and try again.

Cheers,

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cddu@hotmail.com — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:59:18 GMT

Hi,

i am using a third party dll from Activepdf to convert the documents of document library to PDF.

i get the following error very specific to activepdf and sharepoint:

-2 - DocConverter Service user does not have permission to the file or folders specified or the Files and Folder paths are invalid.

can anyone help me in resolving the issue.

regards

kondala rao

re: Smart Client Authoring

remandlo — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:51:35 GMT

I had the same error: CE_Other. What I did is this: I went to Computer Management Console, under services I changed the

following services account.

- Office Document conversion Launcher service runs under Local System account

- Office Document Conversion Load Balancer service runs under the Local Service account.

Hope you'll find this interesting.

remandlo

re: Smart Client Authoring

remandlo — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:51:39 GMT

I had the same error: CE_Other. What I did is this: I went to Computer Management Console, under services I changed the

following services account.

- Office Document conversion Launcher service runs under Local System account

- Office Document Conversion Load Balancer service runs under the Local Service account.

Hope you'll find this interesting.

remandlo

remandlo@gmail.com

re: Smart Client Authoring

Karen Mibus — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:51:22 GMT

I was converting Word 2007 documents created from a template with macros to a SharePoint 2007 Web page without problems and then suddenly the converter ceased working. I received an error message: The converter cannot complete the task because an internal error occurred.

I've tried several documents since then that were created from different Word 2007 templates with macros. None of them will convert.

Do you know where I can find out what internal error occurred?

re: Smart Client Authoring

Paisleygo — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 04:24:24 GMT

I tried setting up the SCA - as per George's article but I don't get the drop down menu item (convert document).

I am probably trying to make it too complicated. I do get the ability to configure the ct - but don't get the option in the drop down menu

Any help would be appreciated...

here is what I had to do (alot more to it than his article mentions)

1. create two content types

-emp handbook doc and - inherits from document

-emp handbook webpage - inherits from article page

2. create the Page layout for my converted docs to use in spd(using my emp handbook WEBPAGE ct)

3. create a doc lib for collaborating (where hr folks will write and review the content for the handbook) and assign the emp handbook DOC ct to that library

4. Create a subsite of HR called employee handbook - from the publishing template where converted files will end up.

5. Configure the emp handbook DOC ct to do conversions using the "manage doc conversion for this ct" setting and tell it to "publish" my converted files to the subsite in step 4

6. assign the emp handbook webpage CT to the pages library in the emp handbook subsite so it contains pages of that page layout.

re: Smart Client Authoring

JoanneT — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:27:04 GMT

We have been using ECM to publish our corporate manuals. We have successfully converted over 1000 documents to aspx pages. We ahve one docx that will not convert. We receive the following error:

The converter framework returned the following error: CE_OTHER_BLOCKLIST

How do I find out what is the problem?