Creating and Defining SharePoint Integrations

Configure Jive to integrate with a SharePoint site. Use Jive permission groups if you want to limit which users can create places (spaces, groups, or projects) that connect to SharePoint site collections.

Before configuring the SharePoint Integration, you'll need to Create Connections to Site Collections, and install the SharePoint Add-on.

The Storage Management tab in Add-ons enables you to define default configurations for SharePoint as a Storage Provider. Do this if you want different default behavior for a specific site collection, or if you want to limit access to a specific site collection. Configure which Jive User Permission groups can see which site collections, and assign their default behavior. To enable greater flexibility, we changed the behavior from Jive 6 when site collections dictated user permission groups.

To configure the SharePoint Integration:

  1. Click your avatar in the top right of the Jive Community and select Add-ons.
  2. From the Add-ons page, click the Storage Management tab. This is where you can define a different default configuration for each occurrence of SharePoint as a storage provider. Do this if you want different default behavior for specific site collections, or to limit access to a specific site collection. Use Jive User Permissions groups to define who can see which site collections, and assign their default behavior.
  3. To manage visibility or permissions for a site collection, click Add Integration.
  4. When the Add New Integration dialog opens, select SharePoint Storage Integration and type a name to describe this integration in the Display Name field. The name should describe the site or site collection integration.
  5. Click Add.
  6. Use storage providers to set up access to SharePoint site collections by thinking about what Jive User Permission groups are allowed to access which SharePoint Site Collections, which are the SharePoint Connections you created in the Admin Console: