Open Document in new window

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Is it possible to open Document in new window in Mac version of onlyoffice?

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Hello @sashapont
Unfortunately, there’s no way to achieve this scenario on MacOS at the moment. We know about it and we are working on it already.
Sorry for inconvenience.

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For now, I recommend taking the opportunity to open a copy of the runing program in macos, using automator and "open -n " option.

See howto: Как запустить несколько копий одного приложения на Mac | AppleInsider.ru

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Hello @Axx
Thank you for your idea, but we didn’t test this scenario and we can’t provide guarantees of stable work for "open -n " option.

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I confirm that this is still an issue on mac. If someone need to a quick way to open a new ONLYOFFICE window (for looking at two documents side by side) I suggest the following:

  • Open mac’s Terminal app.
  • Type open -n /Applications/ONLYOFFICE.app
  • Press ENTER

Note, what I wrote as “/Applications/” is the path to my application folder where I have installed/placed my ONLYOFFICE app. On your computer it might differ and you could have to type something like open -n /Users/your-user-name/Applications/ONLYOFFICE.app.

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Hello @Clorofilla

Thank you for sharing. Unfortunately, you are correct – this issue has not been resolved yet.
Sorry for the inconvenience.

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@here, new version 9.3 of Desktop Editors for macOS now allows opening several windows with documents.

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That’s a great news @Constantine !

Could you share here how the feature work? It’s not self evident to me and I am sure that any future googler will appreciate.

Thank you.

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Hello @Clorofilla

You can just grab a document tab from the main editor window with a mouse cursor and detach it to open a document in its own window. I hope it helps.

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Ah! So simple that I have missed it.

Thank you. That is quite useful.

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