=OPEN(attachment.xlsm, Redmine)
Attachments piling up in issues?
The spreadsheet attached to that issue opens and saves.
Redmine keeps a great deal of a company's working knowledge as attachments, and has no way to open them. Our plugin gives it one: Redmine becomes a WOPI host, the file goes to SumSheet or SumDoc, and the edit comes back as a new attachment. Measured on Redmine 6 — the current major, which the existing alternative does not support.
What was measured
| The round | A macro workbook and a document with five pictures: opened from an issue, edited, saved back. VBA byte for byte, pictures byte for byte. |
|---|---|
| The refusals | Unsigned and forged requests, corrupted tokens, wrong paths — refused. |
| Version | Redmine 6. Worth checking before you compare: the office plugin already in the directory declares support only for Redmine 4.2 and 5.0, and its last release was in March 2024. |
| What this does not say | The fixture workbook these rounds used asks Microsoft Excel to repair it on its own — so no silent-Excel claim here. See Nextcloud and Seafile. |
Setting it up
# the editors, behind your TLS address
git clone https://github.com/SumOfficeApp/sumoffice-docker && cd sumoffice-docker/nextcloud
cp env.example .env # PUBLIC_URL=https://office.example.com
docker compose up -d
# the plugin: sumoffice-docker, branch integrations, folder integrations/redmine
# copy into plugins/, run the migration, restart Redmine, set the editor address
Evaluation is free with no time limit; production is the per-application license. The other systems we measured →
Then
- Check my Excel file — what your workbooks rely on.
- Tell us your Redmine version — 6 is measured.