ActiveDocs Opus provides seamless integration with SharePoint
ActiveDocs is a Microsoft® Gold Certified Partner committed to supporting Microsoft Office productivity technologies including SharePoint and MOSS. As SharePoint becomes a market leader in Document and Content management, ActiveDocs Opus provides SharePoint users with additional functionality, usability, efficiency and productivity – significantly improving ROI with an end-to-end document creation and management solution.
ActiveDocs Opus Integration allows document creation from SharePoint and document storage into SharePoint in any combination. An end-to-end solution would utilise three simple steps:
Start Document Creation from within SharePoint (see below)
The ActiveDocs Opus Document Wizard runs and the document is compiled
Store the compiled document in SharePoint (see below)
Document Creation from SharePoint
One typical scenario is a SharePoint Document Library for Sales Proposals. The “New” option starts a new Sales Proposal via the ActiveDocs Opus Document Wizard.
In another scenario a list of ActiveDocs Opus Templates appears in a SharePoint Document Library. Context Menus invoke the ActiveDocs Opus Document Wizard.
Document Storage into SharePoint
Any SharePoint library accessible by the ActiveDocs Opus Composition Server can be nominated as a document repository where documents are sent automatically on completion. Documents may also be delivered to email recipient(s), print, fax, or other locations like the ActiveDocs Opus database, the file system, WebDAV, or Web Services.
Documents sent to a SharePoint library are subsequently managed by SharePoint according to that library’s configuration with all of the maintenance, versioning, workflow and sharing options supported by SharePoint.
ActiveDocs Opus supports a range of additional Document Storage options which are described here.
Document Finalization into SharePoint
Document creation isn't always a linear process, even with the addition of Document Automation. A document can go through a number of revisions and adjustments, and maybe some approval/rework cycles, before it is deemed "complete". And at the point where it is deemed "complete", we could imagine one or more additional, conditional, optional processes being performed on it.
ActiveDocs Opus supports post-creation processing with highly functional, conditional, and configurable Approval and Finalization workflows, including storage in SharePoint and other locations and applications.
The new SharePoint Connector for Document Save in ActiveDocs Opus Viper sends to SharePoint with the document all of the document’s metadata, including document properties and ActiveDocs Opus data such as the user, subsite, document id, and return URL (which can be used to enable a link from the SharePoint library back to the ActiveDocs Opus database). SharePoint will match the metadata with the available columns in the specified library.
Like all workflow settings the library location can be set at the global level, and per subsite, and per Template, and may be varied for every document. Ask for more information about ActiveDocs Opus Viper Workflow here.
With ActiveDocs Opus and SharePoint
The ActiveDocs 'right template, right now' philosophy and seamless integration mean that document creation is discreetly, and discretely, controlled to virtually eliminate document risks
From SharePoint (or any other familiar environment) users can rapidly and accurately create and store complete and properly-formatted documents
Seamless integration gives users a smooth workflow in which ActiveDocs Opus is almost invisible
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