IPhone: Viewing office documents

Is there a way to programmatically display doc, xls or ppt documents?
The IPhone email client can display office files, I was wondering if that functionality is exposed via public APIs.
Opening the files in Safari fails (via [UIApplication openURL]), but works fine for pdf files.
Thanks for any help,
Flavio.

I'm also interested in displaying office documents in an iPhone view. Did you figure out a way to do this? Are they just converting to PDF on the backend, then sending it back to a webview?
Let me know if you find anything out.

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Is there a way to view office files in firefox in a new tab?
I mean not to click the file and then "Open with",just click the file and then opens a new tab in Firefox.
There is an addon to chrome that show what i want:
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Open Office has been around for 15 years, almost as long as Mozilla. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org
Sun Microsystems bought Star Office in 1999 for in-house use and then turned it into an open source project in 2000, to complete with Microsoft Office. Oracle shut down Open Office in 2011 after the buy-out of Sun. Shortly before the shut-down of Open Office by Oracle, the open source part of the project became split into separate factions - Adobe picked up the "official" name version, while many of the open source developers kept "things" going under the Libre Office name. ''There is also a "fork" called NeoOffice specifically for Mac OSX, available at the Mac App store (not free-though) .''
As far as the "cloud" part for online storage goes, I have no interest in the "cloud" for storing documents, and I don't know how much any of the three forks is involved in cloud storage - '''but all three forks are so much more than being mere storage medium like a "cloud". They are a full feature suite that is very equal to what Microsoft offers with Office, Word, Excel, and Power Point.'''
OO and LO can open and edit most Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents. And they are primary supporters of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument Open Document Format for Office Applications]. 
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http://www.openoffice.org/ 
https://www.libreoffice.org/

View Office Documents??

I am new to the BB realm of phones.
Currently enjoying my World Edition as I learn how to use it more and more every day.
What software is recommended for viewing microsoft word and excel documents.
How about pdf files?
Verizon...
Mac user
Message Edited by MTP on 02-03-2009 09:29 PM

amit1980 wrote:
I don't have any of the software u have mentioned.nor can I view pdf document on the mail. I get a message about the format not being supported by the device. I have the 4.5 version. Please help.....
Hi and Welcome to the Forums!
If you are on BES, then you must go see your BES admins as they control everything.
If you are on BIS, then please try the following:
1) Register HRT
Homescreen > Options > Advanced Options > Host Routing Table > BBKey (it does not matter which line is current) > Register Now
2) Resend Service Books
KB02830 Send the service books for the BlackBerry Internet Service
Now check to see if you can read a PDF file that comes in as an email attachment -- read it natively while it remains an attachment. You might have to send yourself a new email with a PDF attachment if the Service Book was corrupt at the time the old email arrived.
If that works for attached PDF's, then one down. Now to the ToGo Apps.
I don't recall which device OS level they were included with, but check here please:
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After the list builds, scroll through to find "Documents To Go". If it is there, then you have them installed and simply need to find the icons on your BB.
If they are not there, then tether to your PC and launch the DTM application loader to re-install them.
Keep in mind that, natively (even with ToGo), you will not be able to read PDF's that are files stored on your BB. Only while they remain as an attachment is the Attachment Service able to render them for you. Once they are detached, you need an add-on app to read them, and the Standard ToGo software does not include that.
Good luck and let us know!
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Need Office documents in SharePoint to open in WebApps

I have a client who has a tall order at least as far as I'm concerned. I am not a SharePoint person, just a server admin.
My client has SharePoint 2013 running which is accessible from the Internet by providing domain credentials for the domain on his network where the SharePoint server is located. That is working great. You can navigate throughout the SharePoint site and do
whatever needs to be done.
He also has a Remote Apps server which I set up and has Microsoft Office published on it. That works fine too.
Here's where the tall order comes in. He has staff who run around out in the field with iPads who access the SharePoint site and need to view Office documents in it but they can't as the only option they get is to download the file which doesn't help them
because even if they do, they can't open the document on the iPad.
So he wants to tie SharePoint and the Remote Apps servers together so that when these iPad users access an Office document on the SharePoint site, they can view/edit the documents on their iPads via the Remote Apps.
Is this even possible? If so, just how would it be done? Can the two be tied together or will Remote Apps and Office need to also be installed somewhere else for it to work? I see there is something called Microsoft Office Web Apps Server but also
see that a license is required to edit documents. It wouldn't surprise me if he did not want to buy the license since he already has licenses for Office and Server OS and has Office published on a Remote Apps server.
Jonathan

Can you provide the output of the follow cmdlets from the OWA server?
Get-OfficeWebAppsFarm
Get-OfficeWebAppsHost
Get-OfficeWebAppsMachine
On the SharePoint server, check to see if the SharePoint Tracing service is running in services.msc.
Trevor Seward
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Yes the service is running on the SP server.
Here are the results of running the cmdlets. I've changed the name of the domain.
First cmdlet result:
FarmOU                            :
InternalURL                       :
https://madwebapps.domain.local/
ExternalURL                       :
https://webapps.domain.com/
AllowHTTP                         : False
SSLOffloaded                      : False
CertificateName                   : *.domain.com
EditingEnabled                    : True
LogLocation                       : C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\OfficeWebApps\Data\Logs\ULS
LogRetentionInDays                : 7
LogVerbosity                      :
Proxy                             :
CacheLocation                     : C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\OfficeWebApps\Working\d
MaxMemoryCacheSizeInMB            : 75
DocumentInfoCacheSize             : 5000
CacheSizeInGB                     : 15
ClipartEnabled                    : False
TranslationEnabled                : False
MaxTranslationCharacterCount      : 125000
TranslationServiceAppId           :
TranslationServiceAddress         :
RenderingLocalCacheLocation       : C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\OfficeWebApps\Working\waccache
RecycleActiveProcessCount         : 5
AllowCEIP                         : False
ExcelRequestDurationMax           : 300
ExcelSessionTimeout               : 450
ExcelWorkbookSizeMax              : 10
ExcelPrivateBytesMax              : -1
ExcelConnectionLifetime           : 1800
ExcelExternalDataCacheLifetime    : 300
ExcelAllowExternalData            : True
ExcelWarnOnDataRefresh            : True
OpenFromUrlEnabled                : False
OpenFromUncEnabled                : True
OpenFromUrlThrottlingEnabled      : True
PicturePasteDisabled              : True
RemovePersonalInformationFromLogs : False
AllowHttpSecureStoreConnections   : False
IgnoreDeserializationFilter       : False
Machines                          : {MADWEBAPPS}
Second cmdlet result:
allowList
{domain.local, domain.com}
Third cmdlet result:
MasterMachineName     MachineName     Roles     HealthStatus
MADWEBAPPS               MADWEBAPPS    {All}     Unhealthy
I have no idea what unhealthy specifically means nor how to deal with it.
And thank you again so very much for helping with this!
Jonathan

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inserted graphics don't display at all,
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It certainly happens in iOS 5.1.1 & iOS 5.1
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I logged a call with AppleCare & have since had explained why this occurs (some time ago)
I'll try to explain what was indicated to me.
iOS has a limited Font Set & this affects what PDFs can display. You need to use iOS supported fonts in your PDFs to see/read them properly
These supported fonts are indicated here => http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4980
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Jp

Jay,
As taken from the [iPhone user manual|http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iPhoneUserGuide.pdf]:
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Using your iPhone as a USB drive.
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iBooks!
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I'm receiving the following error when viewing SharePoint 2013 PDF documents in a mobile browser after clicking on the filename:
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My Question
Is viewing PDF documents in mobile browsers with Office Web Apps SP1 actually supported? If so, how can I enable it? I've already have pdf viewing working in non-mobile browsers. Word documents open just fine on mobile browsers too.
I'm getting conflicting answers for pdf mobile viewing support from various sources:
You've got Microsoft toting that they've added in PDF viewing on any device for Office Web Apps
http://blogs.office.com/2013/07/03/pdfs-in-the-word-web-app/
A MS support person saying saying it is not supported
http://blogs.technet.com/b/office_web_apps_server_2013_support_blog/archive/2013/12/31/enabling-pdf-previews-in-document-libraries-with-office-web-apps-2013-in-sharepoint-2013-open-link-does-not-work-from-preview.aspx
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When I started looking into this there was a mobile WOPI entry:
Application : WordPdf
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Action : mobileView
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ServerName : 20SP8
WopiZone : internal-http
I tried experimenting with tweaking this binding by changing the DefaultAction to true, and even removing it altogether via:
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I removed all the WordPdf bindings and re-added them via:
New-SPWOPIBinding –ServerName "<myserver>" –Application "WordPDF" -AllowHTTP
No dice. In fact the mobileview binding doesn't even come back... but I guess that is a different issue altogether.
Version
SharePoint 2013 (SP1)
Office Web Apps Server (SP1)
Farm Setup
Internal facing only
2 front end servers, 1 app server, 1 office web apps server

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3.Please maintain a protocol if not maintained already.for example the
protocol SAPHTTP.save it.
4.Launch the transaction OAA3.Create an entry with the same protocol and
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'TIF' >choose the communication type as 'ARCHIVELNK' >Click on
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communication type as 'TABLE' >Click on continue.
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