Online Manual Module for SharePoint

An exhaustive set of document management, conversion and publishing functions.

  • Document authoring. Supports every authoring tool—including all versions of Microsoft Office—and allows usage of all of each tool's native functions without restriction.
  • Document control. Document storage, versioning, audit trails, customizable SharePoint workflow (1-n approvers, 1.-n steps, serial/parallel), team collaboration, review and approval, classification through metadata and taxonomies, etc.
  • Document publishing. Multi-format conversion (Rich Hypertext, Flat HTML, PDF, PDF/A, Flash, MP3, TIF, etc.), completely automated lifecycle synchronization with audit trails (document control, document publication, document release), metadata publishing, document control audit trail publishing, revision mark, footnote and annotation publishing, document merging and PDF compounding, automatic publication expiration, future publication dates.
  • Document presentation. Online, library-style presentation system (similar to MSDN), corporate branding, navigation by author, title, date and taxonomy, personalization and filtering, topic-oriented granularity to optimize full text searching, Web 2.0 functions like commenting, printing, and favorites.
  • Administration. Installs as a SharePoint solution. Centrally configured and administered. Customizations to conversion, re-purposing and publishing functions have global effect and become available to all.
 

Supported input formats

  • Microsoft Office 97-2010: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, etc.
  • Open Office: Writer, Impress, Calc, Draw
  • Special formats like AutoCAD
  • Legacy authoring tools
  • Open standard formats: XML, RSS, etc.
  • All standard graphic formats
  • PDF und Text
  • Data structures such as extract data from databases and SharePoint lists
  

Supported output formats

  • Rich hypertext (vendor-neutral HTML4 supporting 100% CSS control, topic-oriented representation of original content with table of contents, footnotes, revision marks and topic-oriented searchability)
  • PDF and PDF/A
  • Compound PDF and PDF/A
  • XML
  • Flat HTML (generated by the authoring application
  • Flash (ideal for high-security systems where downloading a PDF rendition of content is not allowed)
  • epub (compatible with any ebook reader)
  • MP3 (text-to-speech)

 

Additional features for conversion, presentation and archiving

  • Metadata can be used not only for document classification and notation, but also to capture information that should be passed through to end-user publications, to control end-user security, to define behavior of the SharePoint content presentation application, to specify archiving behavior, etc.
  • Deploy publications into SharePoint shadow document libraries or SharePoint page libraries (for creating WCMS applications).
  • All presentation functions are implemented 100% with SharePoint and are 100% open. No need to know or use any third-party technology.
  • Content presentation application: MSDN-style online library supporting full text searching via SharePoint, filtering, collapsible/expandable views by date, title, index entry, author or metadata, on-demand access to any desired rendition belonging to a multi-format publication, favorites, printer-friendly view, related publications list (set of documents that belong together, associated by metadata), social features (optional).
  • Integrated archiving.
  • Published Rich Hypertext content 100% controllable through CSS to allow conformance of content with any CI—regardless of how the source document was authored.
  • Single-source, cross-media solution. One document can be used to manage multiple outputs in multiple applications for multiple users with multiple needs.
  • Works with SharePoint Server and/or SharePoint Foundation.