We have a custom Application that delivers our product documentation to customers, and I am looking to see if we can deliver a better experience via SharePoint Online. Some of the requirements:
- Audit of downloads and prevention of people downloading everything in one go.
- Access only via the App interface rather than going to the SharePoint site directly.
- Dynamic building of Category and Properties for Searching and presentation of Documents.
Nice to have
We have a plug-in that drills down into a code tree and presents one file at a time, as well as displaying one page of a help file.
Does anyone know of any AddIns to Office365 that would do anything similar?
Does anyone know of any commercial product that might fit this?
Many thanks
A couple of years ago when I joined the company, it was on an old windows server, and frequently ran out of memory and was dreadfully slow. lots of people suggested converting it to run off SharePoint. Now I have time to take a look at it, It has been ported to a newer server, and had some improvements.
One of the debates is indeed what we would gain by replacing it, which is part of what I’m trying to determine. We do have the skills in-house to work on it, but those people are also our valuable architects/developers that are busy on our product. If we could find a 3rd party tool, then the maintenance is outsourced etc. If I have to rewrite it then I am questioning like you why I wouldn’t just improve what is there.
One issue is that we have customer all over the world, and access to our servers in Dublin can be slow from outside Europe. So one possibility is to geo-locate the documents in several locations.
I am not aware of any application that has this. Do you like the application you have now? Any thoughts on converting it to to use SharePoint at the auth provider and data source, or do you not have this ability in house?
Okay. Well I’ll do some research and see if I can find anything that may be useful to you for existing applications. At this point, I’m not aware of anything that would suit your needs exactly, but it wouldn’t hurt to look. You could definitely geo-locate documents, but that can also become a nightmare. One benefit of SharePoint is that you could use Search to find your content. It would be must faster to execute your queries against a search index, than it would be to send requests against the servers all the time, especially from across the world.