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GroupDocs Apps Suite: a One-Stop-Shop for All Your Online Document Management Needs

Good news for the document management world! You now have all required online document management apps available under one roof. I’m talking about GroupDocs: a one-stop-shop for all your document management needs. The history of modern document management systems began with development of a set of computer apps, which were used to store and monitor electronic documents. With the advancement of technology, new branches were formed in the system. Now, online document management is not just storing or monitoring your… Continue Reading
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Developing FireFox Add-ons with the Add-on Builder and SDK

This article explains the basics of creating an add-on for FireFox using the FireFox Add-on Builder and Add-on SDK. Read more about them on the Mozilla website. As an example, I’ll use the GroupDocs add-on. (You can download the source code from Github.) It’s an advanced extension so I’ll focus on the basics and highlight a couple of interesting aspects communication between scripts. I’ll mainly look at the add-on folders data and lib in the /resources/groupdocsviewer/ folder.

Creating

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How to Use Swagger UI to Test GroupDocs REST API

The GroupDocs APIs are designed to be REST compliant so that they are familiar and easy to use. This post looks at how to use Swagger to test the GroupDocs APIs. Before showing you how to run a test, it explains Swagger and REST, and why we use them.

Why we use Swagger and REST

Swagger is a specification and a framework for building interactive API documentation and sandboxes, and to generate the code of an API client. Swagger (… Continue Reading
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Integration for Zapier – How to Create a Custom Trigger

Zapier allows seamless integration with dozens of APIs. In this post I’ll explain how to create an integration with the GroupDocs Storage API. Put simply the process of integration with Zapier is Read -> Process -> Write. Read-Process-Write image The left side of the integration is called a trigger and the right side is an action. The central process simply converts your API response to a format suitable for the write action. We are going to create a trigger for new files.… Continue Reading
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PDF Viewer Plugin for Joomla Is Now Officially Released!

Hello to all Joomla users! Here at GroupDocs, we’re excited to announce the release of the long-awaited PDF viewer plugin for Joomla CMS. The plugin allows you to easily embed and host PDF documents (as well as Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents) on your Joomla website. We’ve been working hard to make the installation process and plugin deployment hassle-free for Joomla web-developers and website owners. At the same time, our aim was to make the document viewer interface convenient… Continue Reading
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A Year of Great Achievements: 2012 in Review

For GroupDocs, 2012 was a significant year marked by milestones; we’re proud and grateful to end a busy year with great achievements. With constant enhancements, we were able to prove that we’re an integral part of the document management world. In 2012, we have introduced enhanced versions of our apps with added features from time to time; created a variety of plugins for multiple platforms; integrated many different storage options with GroupDocs; introduced flexible API SDKs to… Continue Reading
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Annotate or Collaborate on Documents Easily Using the New Enhanced GroupDocs Annotation

Great news for all reviewers! We’ve introduced the new GroupDocs Annotation user interface to make your document annotation process easier and faster. With these new enhanced UI and features, you are now able to annotate and collaborate on documents quickly. GroupDocs Annotation is a service that lets you perform document collaboration easily. You and your colleagues can annotate documents and perform document collaboration in real time. You can make suggestions or add the required comments online at the same time,… Continue Reading
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Announcing box.com Integration with GroupDocs’ Document Management Apps Suite

Good news from GroupDocs to all box.com users. We’ve integrated box.com with GroupDocs. Now, you can access all your box.com files and folders from within your GroupDocs account. Use your box.com documents with GroupDocs’ document management apps suite to take your document management experience to new heights. Integration is super simple. Simply use the Box.com button in the Integration area of the My Account page and log in to box.com. When you perform this step, the integration happens automatically.… Continue Reading
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Online Document Viewer Plugin for Umbraco is Now Available for Download

GroupDocs’ Viewer package for Umbraco CMS is now available for download from our Marketplace. GroupDocs Viewer is a platform and software independent online document viewer that lets you open all common document formats straight in a web-browser and from any web-enabled device. With this plugin you can integrate the GroupDocs Viewer into your Umbraco website and then publish documents on any web-pages within your website. Your website visitors can then view documents directly on your Umbraco web-pages.

Supported File Formats

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PDF Document Viewer Module for Drupal is Now Available for Download

Great news for all Drupal CMS users! We have released a PDF viewer module for Drupal. The module allows you to seamlessly embed PDF documents, as well as PowerPoint presentations, Excel spreadsheets, word processing documents and images into web-pages on your Drupal website. GroupDocs document viewer module for Drupal The PDF document viewer module for Drupal utilizes our GroupDocs Viewer’s functionality and provides you with the following benefits:
  1. Your website visitors don’t need any browser plug-ins or Flash to view documents hosted with our document
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