DocumentServer/Roadmap.md

## Overview

**ONLYOFFICE Document Server** is an online office suite comprising viewers and editors for texts, spreadsheets and presentations, fully compatible with Office Open XML formats: .docx, .xlsx, .pptx and enabling collaborative editing in real time. This document provides the roadmap of the planned **ONLYOFFICE Document Server** changes.

## Version 4.5

### Server tasks

* Scalability and Clustering
* Security

### Common tasks for all Editors

* Charts Improvement (3D)
* Paste Options (Keep Source Formatting, Merge Formatting, Keep Text Only etc.)
* Document Templates
* Development of editors add-ons for versioning (Chrome & Mozilla)
* Undo/redo for fast collaborative editing
* Opening password-protected documents

### Document Editor improvement tasks

* Versioning
* Mail Merge
* Footnotes, Endnotes 
* Proportional table resize
* AutoCorrect

### Spreadsheet Editor improvement tasks

* Formulas in AutoShapes
* Adjustable cell format (number, currency, etc.)
* Pivot tables
* Multiselect
* Conditional Formatting
* Sparklines

### Presentation Editor improvement tasks

* Slide Notes
* Columns (settings)
* Improvement in opening PPT + ODP
* Formulas in AutoShapes

### Interface tasks

* Customization
* Renaming a file from the editor interface
* Embedded viewers update
* Web-based mobile version update

### Desktop and mobile editors tasks

* Development of co-editing for the Spreadsheet Editor for iPad

## Version 5.0

### Server tasks

* Security

### Common tasks for all Editors

* Korean, Chinese, Japanese and Arabic languages support improvement (vertical text + right-to-left) 
* Korean, Chinese, Japanese and Arabic languages support improvement (canvas-based font rendering) 
* Border styles (double)
* Symbol Insertion (Character Map)
* Development of editors add-ons for versioning (Chrome & Mozilla)
* Undo/redo for fast collaborative editing
* Commenting mode (restricted editing)
* Protecting parts of a document from being edited
* Protecting parts of a document from being copied
* PDF Editor
* Comparing two documents (+Merging into a single document)

### Document Editor improvement tasks

* Headings setup + table of contents + internal links
* Footnotes, Endnotes
* Setting custom column width (row height) in a table
* Columns and rows distribution in a table
* Combining and splitting of lists
* Backgrounds
* Different underlining (double line, wavy line, etc.)
* Frames for pictures, templates
* Non-breaking paragraph (wrapping)
* Links between the titles
* Hidden text
* Watermarks (maybe as a plug-in)
* Forms

### Spreadsheet Editor improvement tasks

* Effects (like in MS Office 2013)
* Backgrounds
* Print (Preview + header / footer + page breaks)
* Formula bar (improvements)
* Versioning
* Data
* Sheet and Data Protection
* Splitting the window into several editor windows 
* Modify the algorithm of auto-filling (make various options, for example, copy formatting only etc.)

### Presentation Editor improvement tasks

* Vertical text
* Animation
* Hide / restore slide
* Header /footer + slide number + date and time
* Video + audio
* Themes
* Theme Editor
* Hyperlinks improvement (internal links - an analog of the ability to assign actions to inserted objects)

### Interface tasks

* Customization
* Saving a copy of a document on the portal
* Adding the information about updates in a new editor version

### Desktop and mobile editors tasks

* Development of an interface for the Document Editor for Android
* Development of an interface for the Presentation Editor for iPad
* Development of an interface for the Spreadsheet and Presentation Editors for Android
* Development of co-editing for the Document Editor for iPad
* Development of SDK and API of the common file manager for all editors on the base of WebDAV (for the integrators' usability)

## Project Information

Official website: [http://www.onlyoffice.org](http://onlyoffice.org "http://www.onlyoffice.org")

Code repository: [https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/DocumentServer](https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/DocumentServer "https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/DocumentServer")

Docker Image: [https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/Docker-DocumentServer](https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/Docker-DocumentServer "https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/Docker-DocumentServer")

License: [GNU AGPL v3.0](https://help.onlyoffice.com/products/files/doceditor.aspx?fileid=4358397&doc=K0ZUdlVuQzQ0RFhhMzhZRVN4ZFIvaHlhUjN2eS9XMXpKR1M5WEppUk1Gcz0_IjQzNTgzOTci0 "GNU AGPL v3.0")

SaaS version: [http://www.onlyoffice.com](http://www.onlyoffice.com "http://www.onlyoffice.com")

## User Feedback and Support

If you have any problems with or questions about [ONLYOFFICE Document Server][2], please visit our official forum to find answers to your questions: [dev.onlyoffice.org][1] or you can ask and answer ONLYOFFICE development questions on [Stack Overflow][3].

  [1]: http://dev.onlyoffice.org
  [2]: https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/DocumentServer
  [3]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/onlyoffice