Plugin Web Doc Viewer
Introduced in Tiki12
Use this wiki plugin to embed and display many types of documents in a page. Important
The server hosting your Tiki web instance must be accessible from the Internet in order for this plugin to work. If Google's servers cannot load the document, the plugin cannot preview its contents. For similar functionality, fully on your infrastructure, please see: PluginPreview.
Parameters
Plugin PluginTikiDocFromCode failed : Either the module, plugin, preferences, tracker field or prefsexport parameter must be set, but not two or more.
Supported file types:
- Image files (.JPEG, .PNG, .GIF, .TIFF, .BMP)
- Raw Image formats
- Video files (WebM, .MPEG4, .3GPP, .MOV, .AVI, .MPEGPS, .WMV, .FLV, .ogg)
- Microsoft Word (.DOC and .DOCX)
- Microsoft Excel (.XLS and .XLSX)
- Microsoft PowerPoint (.PPT and .PPTX)
- Adobe Portable Document Format (.PDF)
- Tagged Image File Format (.TIFF)
- Scalable Vector Graphics (.SVG)
- PostScript (.EPS, .PS)
- TrueType (.TTF)
- XML Paper Specification (.XPS)
- Google Docs
- Google Sheets
- Google Slides
- Google Forms
- Google Drawings
- Google Drive (.PDF, "Image files", "Video files")
Note : For a full list of supported file types please visit https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2423485?p=docs_viewer&rd=1
Overview
Examples
To add a preview of a document in a wiki page, forum post, blog post, use the WEBDOCVIEWER plugin like this:
Display a document from a Tiki file gallery (without SefURL)
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{webdocviewer url="https://tiki.org/dl178" width="750" height="780"}
Produces...
Display a document from a Tiki file gallery (with SefURL)
SEFurl may be required
SEFurl should be activated to use "fileId" or "dl178" parameters
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{webdocviewer fileId="1" width="425" height="350"}
Display a PDF from another site
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{webdocviewer url="http://www.ntia.doc.gov/legacy/reports/2010/OSTWG_Final_Report_060410.pdf" width="425" height="350"}
NOTE: If you "popout" top left corner of the pdf being displayed, you can get the download, print, save, etc. links.
Note: To display a PDF from a Google drive use the PluginIframe.
Alternatives
Wiki Plugin PluginMediaPlayer is similar or PluginGoogleDoc.
- It uses JQuery.
- If you run into problems with one, it's nice to have a second option to try.