To set up the SharePoint side of Jive for SharePoint Online and Jive for Office 365,
you need to create an app catalog, upload the SharePoint-side Jive app, set up a site
collection, and then add the app.
The SharePoint Online integration links places in Jive to sites in SharePoint. To
create a link between the SharePoint tenant and your Jive site, you should install a
SharePoint-side app that will communicate with a Jive-side add-on. Here you can find
the steps needed to upload and deploy the app, create the site collection, and get
the authentication token to set up the Jive side.
Note: These steps are required for both the SharePoint and Office 365 Online
integrations. If you are using both integrations, you only have to do them
once.
To set up the SharePoint Online side of the integration and make sure you have the
information to set up the Jive side:
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Create an integration user for Jive for Office 365 who has at least Site
Collection Administrator access.
This user will serve as the service account for the Jive integration. Make
sure it is well-secured because it will need to have access to all the site
collections you create as part of the integration.
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Log in as the integration user you just created.
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Create an app catalog in the SharePoint Admin Center.
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On the Apps for SharePoint tab, select Upload and upload
the SharePoint-side Jive app provided by Jive.
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Go to the SharePoint Admin Center by clicking from the top menu bar in Office 365.
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Create one or more site collections that will contain SharePoint sites that
will be linked to Jive places.
Each place you create will have a corresponding site inside the site
collection.
It may take a few minutes for your site collection to be live
after you create it: if you're looking at the list of URLs, your site is
live when the link is live. Note that any site collection created later must
grant admin access to the integration user.
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Create a restricted site collection that will host only the SharePoint-side
Jive app.
You should select limited storage and Team Site.
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Go to the URL of the restricted site collection.
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Click Site Contents in the left pane.
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Click add an app.
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Under Apps you can add, select the Jive-Office
integration app. The settings should allow full control of the site collection
and site. Click Trust It to deploy the app.
Warning: The app always inherits the permissions of the service account that last clicked the app. Make sure
the integration user you created above is the only user who
has access to the site collection that hosts the Jive-Office
integration app.
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Click the app. You should see a text file (as shown below) that includes the
authentication token you need to connect your SharePoint site collection to Jive
external storage when you configure the Jive-side add-on.
When you have completed this setup, you can continue by configuring the Jive for
Office365 add-on. You should use the URLs of your SharePoint site and site collection as
well as the authentication token from the app to configure the add-on.