inductor / online

Collabora Online is a collaborative online office suite based on LibreOffice technology. This is also the source for the Collabora Office apps for iOS and Android.

Collabora Online

Your own private Office in the Cloud

Get in touch 💬

• 📋 Forum
• 👥 Facebook
• 🐣 Twitter
• 🐘 Mastodon

Key features

• View and edit text documents, spreadsheets, presentations & more
• Collaborative editing features
• Works in any modern browser – no plugin needed
• Open Source – primarily under the MPLv2 license. Some parts are under other open source licences, see e.g. browser/LICENSE.

Website

For many more details, build instructions, downloads and more please visit https://collaboraonline.github.io/

Developer assistance

Please ask your questions on any of the bridged IRC/Matrix/Telegram rooms

• IRC: #cool-dev on irc.libera.chat
• Matrix: #cool-dev:libera.chat
• Telegram: CollaboraOnline

Join the conversation on our Discourse server at https://forum.collaboraonline.com/

Watch the tinderbox status (if it's green) at https://cpci.cbg.collabora.co.uk:8080/job/Tinderbox%20for%20online%20master%20against%20co-22.05/

Development bits

This project has several components:

• wsd/
  • The Web Services Daemon - which accepts external connections
• kit/
  • The client which lives in its own chroot and renders documents
• common/
  • Shared code between these processes
• browser/
  • The client side JavaScript component
• test/
  • C++ based unit tests
• cypress_test/
  • JavaScript based integration tests

Further recommended reading with build details

Please consult the README files in the component's directory for more details:

• wsd/README
• browser/README

iOS and Android apps

See the corresponding READMEs:

• ios/README
• android/README

GitPod

Head over to https://collaboraonline.github.io/post/build-code/ select gitpod from the dropdown and follow the steps.

Interesting things to keep in mind:

• Make sure your browser is not blocking windows/tabs from opening from the gitpod workspace URL (maybe add *.gitpod.io to your browser's whitelist)
  • The GitPod tasks will run automatically and further instructions will be printed out right in the terminal
  • VNC tab will open automatically if not just click in the left icon Remote explorer and click 6080. You will see a tab completly black, that's normal.
  • As mentioned in those instructions if you are not using the VS Code desktop and if you are only relying on your browser please:
    • Do not try to click the URL from the make run out put instead copy that URL and execute firefox [paste URL here]
    • Head over to the tab where the VNC is opened (black page), you will see Firefox opening there, maximize and have fun.
    • You can also run cypress tests via GitPod but you will need to use Firefox, for that just prepend CYPRESS_BROWSER="firefox" to the desired command. Example: CYPRESS_BROWSER="firefox" make check for every test or CYPRESS_BROWSER="firefox" make check-desktop spec=impress/scrolling_spec.js for one specific test on desktop

Enjoy!