Month: June 2020

New updates for Collabora Online and Collabora Office for iOS & Android – version 4.2.4

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We are glad to announce a new update of our flagship products Collabora Online and Collabora Office for iOS & Android! Version 4.2.4 adds new features and improves the usability of our collaborative online office suite both on PCs and mobile devices. It is now possible to select multiple sides from the slide pan and duplicate or delete the complete selection. In text documents, it was already possible to add tab stops on the ruler. Now you can also delete these via the context menu on the PC or through a long click on your mobile device.

More new features do enhance the user experience on mobile devices. It is possible to search text in read-only documents. The word count functionality has been added to the upper left burger menu (≡), allowing you to count the content of selected text.

New features overview

  • Multiple slide selection on slide pane (delete or duplicate multiple slides)
  • Delete tab stop from ruler with context menu (PC) or long tap (tablet/phone)
  • New Insert Table dialog from menu Table in Writer and Impress (PC/tablet)
  • Word Count dialog can be started from the burger menu (≡) on phones
  • Search functionality added to read-only mode on phones
  • Log page on Admin Console where admins can view logs and set log level
  • Dropped dependency to locales-all package

Also more possibilities are offered when you are inserting tables. Therefore, start the Dialog Insert Table from the menu.

Most important improvements and fixes

  • Fixed zoom of drop-down list in Writer documents
  • Fixed missing text selection handles on formula bar
  • Fixed scrolling on multi line formula bar (mobile)
  • Fixed flickering during zoom in Writer
  • Don’t overwrite the copy of the document that we are editing on iOS (tdf#133278)
  • Do not import hidden text frames from HTML/Clipboard that Writer does not support
  • Fixed Chinese (Taiwan) localization of sidebar
  • Fixed: in Impress hyperlink were inserted as button instead of text object
  • Fixed a crash in Japanese Calc
  • Fixed ‘Insert – Image’ and ‘Create from Template’ features when the WOPI-like host has self-signed SSL certificate
  • Updated translations
  • and many more fixes

Read the full Collabora Online release notes for list of fixes .
Read the full Collabora Office for iOS and Android release notes for the complete list of fixes.

 

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About Collabora Productivity

Collabora Productivity is the driving force behind putting LibreOffice in the cloud, providing Collabora Online and a range of products and consulting to enterprise and government. Powered by the largest team of certified LibreOffice engineers in the world, it is a leading contributor to the LibreOffice codebase and community. Collabora Office for Desktop and Collabora Online provide a business-hardened office suite with long-term, multi-platform support. Collabora Productivity is a division of Collabora, the global software consultancy dedicated to providing the benefits of Open Source to the commercial world, specializing in mobile, automotive and consumer electronics industries. For more information, visit www.collaboraoffice.com or follow @CollaboraOffice on Twitter.

Collabora Online as default in Nextcloud Hub

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London, June 3 2020 – Collabora Productivity, the driving force behind LibreOffice in the cloud, announces the immediate availability of Collabora Online as the default collaboration and office app in Nextcloud Hub starting from today’s released Nextcloud 19 featuring an easy installation for users with just a few clicks.

Easy to install for every user

Collabora Online will be shipped out of the box with the new Nextcloud 19 Hub. A special community server has been developed, that can easily be installed with a single click by every user, and so avoiding web server and docker containers installation and configuration.

Collabora Online has been available as integrated solution for many productivity use cases for more than three years. However, feedback from home users and the community showed an increasing need for a much easier way to setup LibreOffice online. Users found configuring separate certificates, ports, docker images, and so on too complex, so Collabora created a totally new way to deploy Collabora Online using an innovative PHP proxy and a new custom protocol. With the release of NC 19, this work is ready to use: the new app “Collabora Online: built-in CODE server” can be installed and activated with a single click.

The new app is the same fully functional productivity solution that people already know, with the same feature richness, easy collaboration and excellent interoperability as a normal CODE – Collabora Online Development Edition – installation. Naturally it has its limitations in performance and scalability that are provided by a normal server installation.
This makes it much easier for people to make the right choice, with an open standards based, solution built on fully open source code that respects their privacy. It has never been easier for users to work and collaborate on office documents online, on their own hardware.

“Nextcloud Hub is a really valuable solution for teams and home office users, packed with great features.” says Michael Meeks, General Manager at Collabora Productivity “it is great to work together to make it much easier to deploy innovative, open source solutions that respect users’ privacy and freedom, and to delight our community and customers.”

“We are really pleased to be able to have Collabora Online as an integrated component of Nextcloud Hub” said Frank Karlitschek, CEO of Nextcloud GmbH.“being able to sell & support Collabora Online, the cloud version of LibreOffice, together lets us build a customer base that can sustain and accelerate the innovation and feature richness that delights our users.”

Try out the latest developments – The adventure continues

To make it possible to install Collabora Online as a single click app, without servers and docker containers, a completely new structure has been developed. We continue to work to build on accelerate, and further integrate this brand new PHP proxying functionality and we would love to hear your feedback.
Of course, Collabora’s focus on delivering support for the growing market of organizations, business, educations and administrations, that need a scalable, secure and reliable productivity solution, is unchanged – and we recommend a professional and supported installation with direct websocket connections for all these cases.

Collabora Online Lite

Together with the new Collabora Online single click install we are providing a new ‘Lite’ version of Collabora Online with limited deployment and support activities, and a different pricing model. More information can be found in our blog here: https://www.collaboraoffice.com/release-news/collabora-online-lite-version

About Collabora

Collabora Productivity is the driving force behind putting LibreOffice in the cloud, providing Collabora Online and a range of other products and consulting to enterprise and government. Powered by the largest team of certified LibreOffice engineers in the world, it is a leading contributor to the LibreOffice codebase and community. Collabora Office for Desktop and Collabora Online provide a business-hardened office suite with long-term support. Collabora’s multi-platform policy is completed with Collabora Office for iOS and Android.
Collabora Productivity is a division of Collabora, the global software consultancy dedicated to providing benefits of Open Source to the commercial world, specializing in mobile, automotive and consumer electronics industries.

About Nextcloud

Nextcloud offers the industry-leading, fully open source, self-hosted Content Collaboration Platform, combining the easy user interface of consumer-grade cloud solutions with the security and compliance measures enterprises need. Nextcloud brings together universal access to data through mobile, desktop and web interfaces with next-generation, on-premise secure communication and collaboration features like real-time document editing, chat and video calls, putting them under direct control of IT and integrated with existing infrastructure.

Nextcloud’s easy and quick deployment, open, modular architecture and emphasis on security and advanced federation capabilities enable modern enterprises to leverage their existing file storage assets within and across the borders of their organization. For more information, visit nextcloud.com or follow @Nextclouders on Twitter.

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Connecting Collabora Online built-in CODE Server with Nginx

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When you are using a Nginx server, you need to do a small modification to your existing configuration. For the Collabora Online app to work, you have to add a ‘richdocumentscode/proxy’ entry point as an allowed location to the config in the webroot of your nginx installation. From the documentation at Nextcloud:

location ~ ^\/nextcloud\/(?:index|remote|public|cron|core\/ajax\/update|status|ocs\/v[12]|updater\/.+|oc[ms]-provider\/.+|.+\/richdocumentscode\/proxy)\.php(?:$|\/) {

If you experience any problems, of have any questions, pls do contact us.

Collabora Online Lite Version

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More choice for customers and clarity in market space

June 3, 2020 – Today Collabora Productivity released Collabora Online Lite, a version that brings more choice and clarity into the market space – this is in addition to Collabora’s flagship, Collabora Online, known for its rich collaboration, unmatched security, excellent features, and interoperability.

With the new Collabora Online Lite, customers are given more choice in addition to Collabora Online, with its high standards, is added a new Lite product that has a lower level of support, limited installation supported, no high availability, and which is less easy to deploy. It also comes with a different cost structure, with pricing based on connections instead of users, meaning that every browser-tab with an open document, is counted.

Collabora Online Lite allows customers to make an easier side by side comparison with other inexpensive products. Collabora Online Lite is also available as a license for a single server and without support for our native app versions running on mobile devices.

To further simplify pricing, Collabora Online Lite comes in various standard packages, offering up to a certain amount of simultaneous connections and updates for one year.

“We have a super-rich product, with a high availability, that has low dependencies (needs no extra database, etc.), is extremely scalable, has a friendly, easy to count, user-based licensing, and is easy to buy at a great price, ” says Michael Meeks, General Manager at Collabora Productivity “However – we love to create products and licensing models that our customers ask for; this cut-down Lite version should help customers make richer like-for-like comparisons.”

Updated pricing will be communicated to our partners, and available on our website shortly.