Features

• It's possible to embed one or more Google Docs Viewer within an article.
• Supported formats: .doc, .ppt, .xls, .tif and .pdf.
• Supported Google document formats: document, spreadsheet, presentation, form, drawing and file.
• Set Google Doc Viewer's mode when embedding documents created or stored in Google docs. Supported modes are default, preview and edit.
• Define the language of the Google Docs Viewer interface when embedding documents that are not stored in Google Docs.
• Define the width and height of the viewer.
• Define the border width, border style and border color.
• Add link to the full screen version.
• Define the link label and link position (above or below the document)..
• Support for HTTP and HTTPS (with Google Docs Viewer only).
• Multilingual features (with Google Docs Viewer only).

Basic usage

To embed a Google Docs Viewer in an article use the following code:

{google_docs}document_url{/google_docs}
{google_docs}document_url|width:200|height:200|border:1|border_style:solid|border_color:#000000{/google_docs}
{google_docs}document_url|width:200|height:200|link:yes|link_label:Label|link_position:top{/google_docs}
{google_docs}document_url|link:yes{/google_docs}
{google_docs}document_url|lang:it{/google_docs}
{google_docs}document_url|lang:system{/google_docs}
{google_docs}document_url|https:yes{/google_docs}
{google_docs}document_url|mode:edit{/google_docs}

Example

Replace the "document_url" string with the url of the document that you want to view.

{google_docs}http://www.example.com/docs/document.pdf{/google_docs}

Google Docs documents

Supported Google document formats: document, spreadsheet, presentation, form, drawing, file.

If you want to embed a document stored in Google Docs do the following.

1. Sign in to your Goole Docs account.
2. Open the document that you want to embed.
3. Click File -> Publish to the web
4. Copy the link from the "Document link" field.
5. Paste the link between the google_docs tags.

The above steps don't work with forms. To embed a form do the following.

1. Sign in to your Goole Docs account.
2. Open the form that you want to embed.
3. Click Form -> Go to live form.
4. The form opens in a new tab/window.
5. Copy the URL from the browser's address bar.
6. Paste the URL between the google_docs tags.

Base URL

In the admin panel it's possible to define a base URL for the documents, which makes embedding the documents even easier as there's no need to type in the full URL for each document.