The developers of ONLYOFFICE, an open source office suite, released a new version of the online editors with new features, such as work with forms, and updated their API for third-party integration.
With the release of version 5.2 of ONLYOFFICE online editors, the developers significantly improved work with forms and templates that can be created with the Content Controls feature. It’s now possible to adjust fields appearance and protect certain ones from being edited or deleted.
The first step to easy form distribution planned by the ONLYOFFICE developers was made by adding new access permission to ONLYOFFICE API. It’s now possible to enable Fill Forms mode. When granted this type of permission, one can only insert data to fields selected by the form creator. Another newly-added permission type is Comment Only which is now available in all three editors - for text documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.
Another API update deals with security. To prevent the substitution of important parameters, ONLYOFFICE Document Server requests an encrypted signature in the form of token. The token is generated using the JWT (JSON Web Tokens) standard and signed by the server's key. The scheme was improved in the new version: token is now added to the request body which is not limited in length. Before, it was placed in the request headline, which could possibly lead to problems.
The ONLYOFFICE developers also work on customization. In the new version, it’s possible to define if the Help menu button is displayed or hidden.
The full changelog - https://api.onlyoffice.com/editors/changelog
With the release of version 5.2 of ONLYOFFICE online editors, the developers significantly improved work with forms and templates that can be created with the Content Controls feature. It’s now possible to adjust fields appearance and protect certain ones from being edited or deleted.
The first step to easy form distribution planned by the ONLYOFFICE developers was made by adding new access permission to ONLYOFFICE API. It’s now possible to enable Fill Forms mode. When granted this type of permission, one can only insert data to fields selected by the form creator. Another newly-added permission type is Comment Only which is now available in all three editors - for text documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.
Another API update deals with security. To prevent the substitution of important parameters, ONLYOFFICE Document Server requests an encrypted signature in the form of token. The token is generated using the JWT (JSON Web Tokens) standard and signed by the server's key. The scheme was improved in the new version: token is now added to the request body which is not limited in length. Before, it was placed in the request headline, which could possibly lead to problems.
The ONLYOFFICE developers also work on customization. In the new version, it’s possible to define if the Help menu button is displayed or hidden.
The full changelog - https://api.onlyoffice.com/editors/changelog