I utilize a portable application platform from PortableApps.com to take my workspace along with me so I have a stable work environment whether I am using a computer I can install software on or not. While ONLYOFFICE would be my first choice for a Microsoft Office alternative, ONLYOFFICE is the only alternative that doesn’t have a portable option for Windows. I have tried the portable versions of FreeOffice, LibreOffice, OpenOffice, and WPS Office and all of them fall short when it comes to UI design, functionality, and/or compatibility. Is there any way to utilize OPENOFFICE as a portable application on Windows or is there any plan to release a portable version of ONLYOFFICE in the future?
The portable version may have issues due to the lack of the necessary dependencies on the user’s PC. That is why the release of portable version is not planned.
Sorry for inconvenience.
Thank you for the reply. Do you happen to know which particular dependencies are necessary? I only ask because, if it was the JRE for example, the portableapp.com platform provides jPortable, a portable Java runtime environment. I’m no developer by any stretch of the imagination but really love your software and would love to include it in my portable application suite
Just to add a few words to the suggestion of using Spoon Virtual/Cameyo/etc . We haven’t checked the scenarios of creating portable versions via third-party apps, so we cannot provide any guarantees of stable work.
It’s just a suggestion for the individual user. However, using the professional tools from the venerable PortableApps - or possibly getting your development team to agree a port with that organization - to create a portable version would not be out of place. I’ll try to put it up as a suggestion myself. There’s no reason why it shouldn’t work - LO is a far more brutal package and it runs well. I use the portable version of LO for bulk document conversion via cmd/terminal.
I understand your position and desired goal. However, we do believe that portable version users may face issues due to the lack of some dependencies on their PCs.
I will keep this thread open in case of other requests, but we are not planning a portable version at he moment.
Sorry for inconvenience.
Yeah portable version is pretty key if OnlyOffice wants to keep in rotation of essential apps.
Post-covid remote workers - many of us are not going back. And thank god. It’s better this way, only need to go into central office occasionally. Everyone is working remote and team has expanded.
But when I do go in I need ALL essential apps on thumb drive with my own docs. I’m not messing around with office workstations, logging into cloud services or downloading software to them.
Hello @dandan
Thank you for sharing your thoughts. Unfortunately, there’s no news on the portable version right now. As I mentioned before there’re a lot of possible issues that are related to dependencies.
However, I will update this thread when we are ready to share something.
Hello @Ron
The Desktop Editors are provided under the AGPL v.3 license:: GitHub - ONLYOFFICE/DesktopEditors: An office suite that combines text, spreadsheet and presentation editors allowing to create, view and edit local documents
You can use and modify the source code as you wish. However, this license type doesn’t allow to create a modification without publishing your code and mentioning the original source code.
To be honest, I’m not a big expert with license agreements and it’s better to contact colleagues of mine at sales@onlyoffice.com to discuss if there’re any hidden significant points that slipped from my mind.
From my point of view, you should be fine as long as you publish the modified source code with a link to the original repository, but I recommend asking my colleagues to double-check it.
P.S. I’ve seen your letter in the forum mail box, but it’s better to post the answer here.
Not sure developer wants to here this but if you want a portable version you already have it… doesn’t work with all programs but does work with onlyoffice…
First install it then go to programs folder where it is installed copy the folder to a removable drive and it will run from the portable drive nothing fancy needed about 30 percent of all my portable programs are like thise with some programs a small amount of features don’t work and since I have not tried all onlyoffice features from the removable drive I can not say for sure they all work. But everything I have tried so far works.
Sometimes if you try this a program will run on the removable drive but only on the machine originally installed. I have moved only office to a second machine without installing it on the second machine and it works fine. For clarification I am running windows 10 and 11 respectively on my two machines
Hello @achristy
Thank you for your sharing. However, you are correct that the app created this way might not work correctly on the target machine due to the lack of necessary dependencies on the target machine. We cannot recommend this scenario of portable app creation.
Hello @Ron . Are you still working on a portable version? No pressure, I am only interested because I am a “fan” of portable Versions: Office, Media player, File explorers, Browsers, picture viewer, I like them all portable.
