About the ONLYOFFICE and ownCloud integration
ONLYOFFICE offers an official connector to integrate ONLYOFFICE Docs with ownCloud and edit office documents within the cloud storage. You can download the ONLYOFFICE connector from the ownCloud Marketplace or the ONLYOFFICE GitHub page.
To learn more about the ONLYOFFICE and ownCloud integration connector and how it works in detail, please visit our
API documentation page.
Main features
- Creating, editing, and viewing documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.
- Sharing files with different permissions — viewing/editing, reviewing, filling forms and commenting with user mentions. It's also possible to restrict downloading (in all editors) and modifying filters (in spreadsheets). Sharing via public links is also available.
- Co-editing documents in real-time: two co-editing modes (Fast and Strict), Track Changes, comments, and a built-in chat.
- Co-editing between several federated ownCloud instances connected to one Document Server.
- JWT support to secure your traffic so that no one, besides the users with proper rights, can have access to your documents.
Start using ONLYOFFICE Docs within ownCloud
To create a document:
- Open the needed folder within ownCloud.
- Click the add button.
- Choose the needed file type: Document, Spreadsheet, or Presentation.
- Type in the document name and press Enter.
- Optional. If some templates are added by the administrator, select the necessary template and click Create.
To open a document for editing or viewing:
- Open the folder with the needed document.
- Click the more button or the document title.
- Click the Open in ONLYOFFICE option.
To convert a document to the Office Open XML format:
- Open the folder with the needed document.
- Click the more button or the document title.
- Click the Convert with ONLYOFFICE option.
See the full list of the
formats which can be converted into OOXML.
The ODT, ODS, ODP, and RTF formats are also available for instant conversion. If the corresponding option is enabled in the admin settings, documents in the specified formats will be immediately converted and opened in the ONLYOFFICE editor for editing after clicking on them and choosing the Open in ONLYOFFICE menu item.
Connecting ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors to ownCloud
ONLYOFFICE allows you to edit the files stored in your ownCloud account and collaborate on them using both online and desktop editors. Thereby, you can use not only online collaboration tools but also the features available in your desktop application only:
- protecting documents with a password or a digital signature,
- sending the currently edited file right from the editor using the Send plugin,
- inserting audio and video via the Presentation Editor.
It's supposed that you already have ownCloud server, ONLYOFFICE Docs and the integration app installed and configured.
Launch ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors. To connect Desktop Editors to your ownCloud server, perform the following actions:
- Switch to the Connect to cloud section on the left side panel.
- Click the ownCloud cloud service button. Alternatively, you can use the Connect now link at the bottom.
- If you pressed the ownCloud service button, the Connect to cloud office window opens with the ownCloud selected. If you used the Connect now link, choose the ownCloud cloud storage from the drop-down list.
The Files section of your ownCloud account will open. Now you can edit your existing files and create new ones, share your documents and collaborate on them with ownCloud users using ONLYOFFICE editors.
To learn more about managing your connected accounts, please refer to this instruction.
Connecting ONLYOFFICE Documents to ownCloud on iOS or Android
You can connect ownCloud to the ONLYOFFICE Documents mobile app to work on your ownCloud documents, spreadsheets, and presentations and edit them collaboratively on-the-go.
It's supposed that you already have ownCloud server, ONLYOFFICE Docs and the integration app installed and configured.
To connect ONLYOFFICE to ownCloud on your mobile device, download and install the latest version of the ONLYOFFICE Documents app for iOS or ONLYOFFICE Documents application for Android and perform the following actions:
- Go to the Clouds section.
- Choose ownCloud.
- Insert the URL address of your ownCloud server in the Connection URL field.
- Enter the login and password of your ownCloud account.
- Press Next.
To edit documents from your ownCloud using ONLYOFFICE Docs on your mobile device, tap the necessary file name in the file list.