ExtraView has a spell checker which may be used in preference over any spell checking capability provided by your user’s browsers. It is optional to provide this to your users.  For new ExtraView installations from version 9.1 onwards, the Apached configuration is done for you, but if you are upgrading an older installation to version 9.1 or greater, you must configure your web server if you want to enable it.  The advantages of the ExtraView Spell Checker are:

  • Consistent user interface across all browsers
  • Users may add words to a shared, company-wide dictionary
  • The following dictionaries are provided:

    • US English
    • UK English
    • Canadian English
    • Australian English
    • Spanish
    • French
    • Dutch
    • English Medical Dictionary

For new installations from version 9.1 onwards, you just need to set the value of the behavior setting ENABLE_SPELLCHECK to YES.

To configure the web server when upgrading from a version of ExtraView prior to 9.1, please follow this procedure, assuming you are using Apache.

  • Edit the extraview.conf file.  Your installation may have used a different name for this file.  It is the name of the file in the INCLUDE statement within the httpd.conf file
  • Locate the section with the JkMount statements
  • Add the following line:

    JkMount /evj/rapidSpell/a.rapidspellweb   tomcat1

    Obviously, the path to the software should match the other JkMount statements and the tomcat should be the appropriate one for your installation.