DocumentBursterâ„¢ can be used to deliver reports to Microsoft SharePoint portals.
Microsoft SharePoint is a good document management system which has the following document related capabilities:
DocumentBursterâ„¢ is usually used together with SharePoint in order to solve the following business situations:
Following paragraphs will describe how to configure DocumentBursterâ„¢ in order to burst and deliver reports to Microsoft SharePoint portal.
The simplest way to upload reports to SharePoint is through DocumentBurster™ 's email distribution capability. DocumentBurster™ email configuration is described in Section 3.3, “Distribute Reports by Email� .
From DocumentBursterâ„¢ 's point of view, email configuration is exactly the same regardless if the email destinations are normal email addresses or are SharePoint enabled email addresses.
Microsoft SharePoint should be properly configured (by a SharePoint administrator) in order to accept inbound emails.
It is out of the scope of this manual to give full details about SharePoint inbound email configuration. The official Microsoft SharePoint documentation together with the many existing SharePoint books are the places to look for complete documentation.
Instead, this manual will give hints and will further refer to the official documentation for the topics which are of interest when it comes to SharePoint and DocumentBursterâ„¢ integration.
Following are the main configuration points in regards with SharePoint inbound email:
The inbound email configuration should be similar for both SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010 and for detailed configuration the official SharePoint documentation should be consulted.
Following are some help resources for SharePoint 2007 inbound e-mail configuration:
Following are few SharePoint 2010 help resources related with inbound email configuration:
This example shows how to distribute reports to a WSS3.0 - SharePoint 2007 portal which is installed on Windows Server 2003.
While bursting
samples/Payslips.pdf
report,
DocumentBursterâ„¢
will generate three output reports
alfreda.waldback@northridgehealth.org.pdf,
clyde.grew@northridgehealth.org.pdf
kyle.butford@northridgehealth.org.pdf
which will be delivered to SharePoint's 2007 default
Shared Documents
document library folder.
Following configuration steps are presented with the help of few screenshots
samples/Payslips.pdf
Procedure C.1.Â
Sample - Burst
samples/Payslips.pdf
Report to
SharePoint 2007
It is OK, SMTP service is available under
→ → →For this simple demonstration the incoming email is configured in SharePoint Central Administration as being Automatic. This configuration is done in → → →
On the bottom of the same screen (SharePoint Central Administration screen) , provide an E-mail server display address and select
For the specific document library of interest, enable the incoming e-mail
Configuring DocumentBursterâ„¢ email for distributing reports to SharePoint isn't different than the usual DocumentBursterâ„¢ email configuration
documentburster@sharepoint email address was previously defined in SharePoint as being the email address of Shared Folders document library
Double check that the email distribution is enabled
Select and burst
samples/Payslips.pdf
report
The output burst reports are uploaded to SharePoint
The last thing to be mentioned is about how DocumentBursterâ„¢ is validating email addresses. This is particularly important to be noted here because, if the above steps are followed exactly, then DocumentBursterâ„¢ will not distribute any document to SharePoint. DocumentBursterâ„¢ will display, in the log file, a message similar with
Invalid email address 'documentburster@sharepoint' found! Do you need to use local email addresses like 'documentburster@win2003srv'? If so, defining the 'allowLocalEmailAddresses' configuration with the value 'true' will allow to send emails to local email addresses!"
In the default configuration DocumentBursterâ„¢ is validating all the email addresses to be in the format string@otherstring.ext and will throw the above exception for any address which is not in this format (i.e. documentburster@sharepoint).
Selecting the Allow email addresses with local domain name and no TLD (e.g. documentburster@sharepoint, admin@mailserver1) configuration will make the test to pass for documentburster@sharepoint email address and thus the output reports will be delivered to this SharePoint address.
In DocumentBurster™ main window select → →
If required, your organization's SharePoint administrator should be able to give further help in configuring the system.