Basic concepts

DocSpace Plugins SDK allows developers to create their own plugins and add them to the DocSpace portal.

This documentation describes:

• How to create, code, build, and upload a plugin
• What plugin types and items are available
• What the plugin structure consists of
• How to use plugin variables, methods, messages, and events
• What plugin components can be used to build a plugin

What plugins can do

Here are some examples of what you can do with ONLYOFFICE DocSpace plugins:

• connect third-party services, like Draw.io, Speech to Text Conversion, etc.;
• enhance the existing user experience and the editors’ functionality: PDF-converter.

Code samples are available at https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/docspace-plugins.

How to create plugins

To create your own plugin, you need to follow a few steps:

1. Learn the fundamental concepts for building plugins on the Getting started page and write code that defines the plugin appearance and behavior.
2. After creating the plugin, build it using the instructions here.
3. Now you can upload the plugin to the DocSpace portal and use it.

How to get help

You can request a feature or report a bug by posting an issue on GitHub.

You can also ask our developers on ONLYOFFICE forum (registration required).