Using Jive with SharePoint Online

Jive for SharePoint Online lets you link documents in a SharePoint Online site to a Jive group. You can edit or upload documents from either direction.

Warning: Moving files from one Jive-linked site collection to another, or from one SharePoint Online-linked Jive group to another, is not supported.

Create a document in Jive and store it in SharePoint Online

  • Upload a Word, Excel, or PowerPoint document to a Jive group that's linked to SharePoint Online.

The document is synchronized in the linked site collection in SharePoint.

Upload a document to a Jive-linked site collection in SharePoint and surface it in Jive

  • In SharePoint Online, upload your files into the subfolder called Jive Documents.

The document show up in the linked Jive group.

Open an Office 365 document for editing from the Jive preview page

  • Go to the document and click Edit this document in Office 365 at the top of the preview pane.
Note: If you also have Jive for Office Online, you can use Jive social features when editing it in Office online.