Using EA with MS SharePoint

[jmccrillis]

Could someone outline what I'll need to do to have my EA projects available on our company network via SharePoint? We already use SharePoint, so no fair telling me to not use it

Thanks!

Janene McCrillis
NatureServe

[thomaskilian]

I was about to do so
I only remember one thread dealing with that topic. If you are lucky you will find it (don't remember whether it was useful at all).

[jmccrillis]

I only remember one thread dealing with that topic. If you are lucky you will find it (don't remember whether it was useful at all).

I think I did find it and it was not useful. So I'm asking again.  

[Gary W.]

Janene,

What exactly do you man by 'available'?  To publish to a larger audience?  To distribute the .EAP file?  To allow multiple users to edit/view the models within their own EA?

Gary

[jmccrillis]

Gary,

I'm not sure what *is* possible, so I don't think I have a definition for "available". We need the ability to let team members edit and we need to have some visibility of some contents by other people on our Intranet. It won't be a public site.

Janene

[Gary W.]

Janene,

> some visibility of some contents by other people
> on our Intranet

In my prior projects, I've published EA models on the web via "Project -> Documentation -> HTML Report".   You could upload this to your Sharpoint site.  This would only be for review, but no edits, nor any mechanism to track comments.  

You *could* export to a single document (i.e. "Project -> Documentation -> Rich Text Format (RTF) Report"), save it as Word and turn on its 'Track Changes'.  Once you've uploaded this to your Sharepoint site, Sharepoint would handle checkout / checkin / etc.

But I've never done the 'Track Changes' method.  I've always published the HTML for review, and then got together as a group to go through everyone's feedback.

> let team members edit

Well, I cannot see how Sharepoint would support EA's functionality in a shared enviroment.  EA's 'corporate edition' has some ability here, but it wouldn't be through Sharepoint.  Perhaps you should look at http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/share.html and http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/resources/version_control.html?

HTH
gary

[jmccrillis]

Excellent information, Gary. Thank you so much.

Janene

[bmioch]

Hi Janene

we need to have some visibility of some contents by other people on our Intranet.

You may not know about EA Lite. EA Lite is a free, read-only version of EA. This might be useful for you.

Bill

[jmccrillis]

Thanks, Bill! I had forgotten about that and that would also be an excellent way to share the content!