Sharing With SharePoint
Sharing with sharepoint is really easy. In fact, as the name tells you, that’s what the core point of the software is in the first place! Its designed around the idea of facilitating and making sharing and collaboration a lot more easy and effortless. If you need help developing a custom solution with sharepoint, click right here to learn more.
The way sharepoint achieves that is through integrating itself into other microsoft and windows applications, basically becoming a framework around your current work enviroment. What it does for example is add menus, buttons and toolbars inside the ms-office suite. This way, if you want to share a document with someone else, (let’s say you want a document approved) you simply press the appropriate button inside of ms word.
You press the users button on the toolbar, choose the user you want to share this document with, and then if you want, add a task for them, regarding this document. You can for example set the workflow of “approve or reject document”. What happens next is that sharepoint emails the user, and you are immediatelly notified when they open the document (commence the task). When they approve or reject the document, you are also immediatelly emailed the approval or rejection, as well as any comments they might have.
If you view the document in word now, after the approval (or rejection), you will actually see their notes and comments right there in the document, and this makes sharepoint almost the ideal platform for collaboration. Now, just because I used the example of word and approval/rejection, don’t assume that’s the extent of its collaboration abilities. In fact, there are literally millions of possible combinations, especially if you design your custom workflows using the sharepoint designer. My advice would be to simply hire a sharepoint consultant who can customize and fit the sharepoint implementation to your exact needs.
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