Things You Can Do with SharePoint in Tridion Sites and Docs

Today, about 190 million users from more than 250,000 organizations across the globe use SharePoint to store, organize, access and share data from different devices, create intranet team sites, and publish and manage content.

Without doubt, it is one of the world’s leading collaboration and document management tool from Microsoft. It is highly configurable and can be used for a vast range of purposes.

RWS recognizes the value that SharePoint brings to its users and hence has introduced a connector that helps you to link Tridion Docs and Tridion Sites to it. Integrating SharePoint into a business's system helps to eliminate manual, time-consuming tasks and processes and paves the way for a smoother all-round deployment.

SharePoint Add-on

With our newly introduced SharePoint 365 connector, as a Tridion Sites or Tridion Docs user, you can seamlessly integrate your SharePoint account in Tridion Sites or Tridion Docs.

How does SharePoint 365 Connector work with Tridion Sites?

SharePoint 365 connector for Tridion Sites provides an easy way to access and consume multimedia assets and documents stored in SharePoint 365 in Tridion Sites. It provides an intuitive single interface to navigate through SharePoint 365 assets/documents.

In addition, SharePoint 365 connector also offers advanced functionalities to search for any SharePoint 365 asset/document for rapid access and to view metadata on SharePoint 365 assets/documents. Further, the add-on makes it possible to consume SharePoint 365 documents/assets in Tridion components and pages and publish documents/assets to websites.

The SharePoint 365 connector for Tridion Sites can be deployed on both SDL Tridion Sites Content Manager and SDL Digital Experience Delivery (DXD), which gives the possibility to use the connector from the SDL Tridion Sites UI and through the headless GraphQL interface.

How does SharePoint 365 Connector work with Tridion Docs?

SharePoint 365 connector for Tridion Docs allows you to publish documents (Word, PDF etc) to SharePoint 365 directly from Tridion Docs with just a few clicks. In addition, the add-on also allows you to publish metadata information alongside the document.

The connector is added to the standard publish pipeline which allows endless possibilities on how documents can be formatted before it gets delivered to SharePoint 365.

Tridion and SharePoint

Tridion Sites is a web experience management solution that enables companies to effectively manage a complex environment of marketing and product-led content across global web, digital and mobile properties to deliver continuous digital experiences. Tridion Sites offers a complete solution to publish digital content globally for any device and adapt for multi-lingual, multi-cultural and multi-brand channels. 

On the other hand, Tridion Docs is a DITA-based structured content management solution that solves the complexity of creating, managing and distributing in-depth product content and technical documentation at scale. It improves the time to market, quality, and consistency of information while lowering development costs through content reuse, automated publishing, and translation.

Now, with the help of SharePoint 365 connector, Tridion users can connect to their SharePoint 365 account in both Tridion Sites and Tridion Docs. The add-on not only allows to consume multimedia assets and documents stored in SharePoint 365 in Tridion Sites and publish documents (Word, PDF etc) to SharePoint 365 directly from Tridion Docs but also to do much more. Go ahead and connect with your SharePoint account now!

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