Drive Mobile User Productivitywith SharePoint & SharePlusDave Bakker – Consultant, ArrixKiril Matev – Consultant, Infragistics

Challenges of mobilizing SharePoint content

Solving the mobility challenges using SharePlus

Real life scenario: Mobilizing digital meetings in SharePoint

Agenda

Challenge 1: Navigation

What mobile SharePoint navigation should look like:

What mobile SharePoint navigation often looks like from end user perspective:

SharePoint navigation on mobile:

• Overwhelming • Non-relevant• Not touch-friendly

Challenge 2: Mobile Layout

SharePoint websites on a tablet or smartphone

• Not really responsive

• Often difficult to navigate

• Only available online

• Forms difficult to fill in

• No access to local filesystem

Mobile SharePoint DIY is not easy

• Manually create versions of each page for mobile use from scratch

• Lack of support for responsive design

• Branding is difficult

How about using OneDrive?

The Microsoft out of the box solution for mobilizing SharePoint:

OneDrive for Business for offline availability of content

OneDrive for Business sync is not the answer for enterprise solutions:

• Lists cannot be synced• Views cannot be synced• Columns cannot be synced• Library sync is all or nothing!

Solutions cannot be used offline

No Mobile-friendly NavigationNo Mobile LayoutNo Automatic Synchronization

The Solution: SharePlus

An enterprise solution for mobile-first, touch-first SharePoint access even

offline

Mobile productivity factors:

• Content Discovery• Content Navigation• Content Processing

Content Discovery Capabilities - Social

Content Discovery Capabilities - Search

Highly customizable navigation experiences

Mobile-friendly layout

Built-in Rich Content Processing - PDF Annotation, Search

• All Content types supported for offline use

• View-based, item-based synchronization

• Manual and preconfigured offline content

• Fully configurable synchronization– Synchronize over Wi-Fi– Set size limits

Offline Content Synchronization

SharePoint is there to be customized,

and we mobilize the customisations

SharePlus - a platform for custom mobile solutions

You are in good company

Real life case: digital meetings in SharePointAir traffic control Netherlands Schiphol

Digital meetings in SharePoint 2013 case

• After upgrading to SharePoint 2013 the meeting workspace was not available anymore.

• Standard touch experience of SharePoint on tablets is horrible.

• No possibility to view SharePoint lists and libraries offline.

• Better use of the SharePoint 2013 features.

Website version of the solution

Let’s take a look under the hood….

jQuery code used for custom views integrating:

• Calendar list

• Document library

• Task list

• Agenda item list

Digital Meetings Site structure

Mobilizing the digital meetings solution

The question: How do we get there with SharePlus?

SharePlususer

experience

SHAREPOINT CONFIGURAT

ION

AUTO. OFFLINE

SYNCBRANDING

REMOTE CONFIGURATI

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CUSTOM NAVIGATIO

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Company logo’s Company color scheme

Central location Uniform settings

Part of a template Uniform list behavior

Custom solutions User friendly interface

The user experience flower:

Branding SharePlus

Use your company logo and colors.

Branding SharePlus

Users are presented with a corporate login screen.

Taking the solution offline

Taking the solution offline

Taking the solution offline - MobileNavigation list

• Configure the way users see sites and lists

• Automatically hide lists like: Site Assets, Micro feed & Site Pages without coding

• Set an individual Launchpad as start screen for different portals

• Set lists and libraries to be synchronized for offline use

Productivity through Remote configuration

Remote configuration file

• XML file that stores the settings of SharePlus for a group users

• Enforce preconfigured portals to all or a certain group of users

• Enforce SharePlus policies

• Enforce automatic update behavior

• Configuring features of SharePlus

Optimizing the navigation experience

The SharePoint solution without a Launchpad ….

• Information lives inside lists and libraries.

• Difficult to find relationships between items.

The SharePoint solution with a Launchpad!

• Related items are combined and presented as one

• Easy to navigate

• Even offline!

Sample Launchpads

Launchpad structure and priorities

• CSS, jQuery & HTML

• Corporate branding

• Direct links to important content

• No need for browsing SharePoint structure

• SharePlus JS API to get SharePoint content

Questions

Needing help with:

• Building launchpads?

• Deploying Mobile Device management with SharePlus?

• Developing mobile SharePoint solutions?Infragistics partner

in the Netherlands.

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