Kraaft makes your life easier by automatically pushing the photos and documents from your conversations into the SharePoint or OneDrive folder of your choice ๐ Your field teams keep working in Kraaft, and everything lands in the right place back at the office ๐
Setup happens on computer, and it's reserved for Owners and Administrators of the Kraaft workspace ๐ป
๐ค What syncs to SharePoint (and what doesn't)
Kraaft's SharePoint integration syncs the files shared in the conversation, and only those ๐ง
โ Photos shared in a Kraaft conversation
โ Documents shared in a Kraaft conversation: PDF, Word, Excel, drawingsโฆ
โ Photos and documents attached to a completed report ๐
โ Report exports โ the document generated from the fields you filled in
โ The Excel export from the database and the Word export of the conversation
๐ก Want to get your reports out of Kraaft?
These exports don't go through SharePoint, but you can download them from Kraaft in just a few clicks:
๐ฌ The conversation export: the conversation as a Word file, the shared documents sorted into folders, and an Excel file of your completed reports โ Make an export of my conversation
๐ The bulk download: you select your completed reports, pick your template, and receive a download link by email โ Generate form report
๐งฎ The Excel export from the database: a single file with all the data from your completed reports โ Generate excel report from database
โ๏ธ Step 1 โ Connect your SharePoint account to Kraaft
This step is mandatory: without it, no sync is possible ๐
Before you start, choose carefully the Microsoft account used for the connection โ that's your root user ๐ค
๐ This account is the one authorising the Kraaft x SharePoint integration
๐ค Photos and documents copied from Kraaft to SharePoint are copied in its name
โ ๏ธ It must have access rights on the synced SharePoint or OneDrive folders โ without those rights, nothing comes through
Then you're all set:
Go to Settings โ Integrations, right here
On the SharePoint row, click the three little dots on the right โฏ
Click Connect ๐
Sign in with your Microsoft root user account in the window that opens
Back in Kraaft, the ยซ Sync active ยป message confirms the connection โ
๐ก Check that the connection holds
Expand the SharePoint row in Integrations: you'll see your account, the last sync and the Token column. If the Token no longer shows Valid, the sync is interrupted โ simply reconnect the root account ๐ง
๐ฏ Step 2 โ Choose your sync method
Two ways to work, your call ๐ง
๐ Global sync: your whole Kraaft workspace flows into a single SharePoint folder
๐ Sync per conversation: each project goes into the SharePoint folder you assign to it
๐ Sync your whole Kraaft workspace at once
You'd rather not connect your projects one by one? Kraaft pushes your entire workspace into a single folder ๐ฆ
In Settings โ Integrations, expand the SharePoint row
On Global sync SharePoint folder, click Set โ๏ธ
Point to the SharePoint folder that will receive all the content of your workspace ๐
What it changes concretely:
๐๏ธ Every conversation is included, archived conversations too
โช The sync is retroactive: conversations already created come through as well, not just the new ones
๐ The folder hosting this content is created automatically in your SharePoint or OneDrive, sorted conversation by conversation
๐ฆ It's the best option when you want to retrieve all the files shared across your Kraaft workspace
๐ก Our tip
Right after setting your folder, check the share link attached to this sync ๐ With the right link and the right rights on the Microsoft side, your content lands in the right place from the very first sync โ
๐ Sync one Kraaft conversation with a SharePoint folder
You want one specific project to flow into one specific folder? That's the conversation-by-conversation method ๐ฏ
First, get the share link of your SharePoint folder:
On SharePoint, go to the folder that will receive the content, for example a ยซ Kraaft connection ยป folder ๐
Click Share, then copy the share link ๐
Then paste it into your Kraaft conversation:
Open the Kraaft conversation concerned ๐ฌ
Top right, open the Info tab
Scroll down to the Advanced block, then select SharePoint
Paste the share link, then confirm โ
A button then lets you go straight to the SharePoint folder connected to this conversation ๐
๐๏ธ How your Kraaft content is organised on SharePoint
Your content arrives tidy, not in bulk ๐ฏ Everything starts from the Kraaft - your workspace name folder, which holds one folder per Kraaft conversation.
Inside each conversation folder, you'll find three folders:
๐ Folders: the exact naming and structure of the folders created in the Kraaft conversation
๐๏ธ Uncategorised files: two subfolders separating unsorted documents and photos
๐ Reports: one folder per report type, and inside each, one folder per completed report that holds an attached document or photo
โ ๏ธ Good to know โ If you rename a conversation in Kraaft, the matching folder doesn't change name on SharePoint. Remember to rename it on your side to keep your folders aligned.
๐ง Restart, stop or disconnect your SharePoint sync
You stay in control at any time, at two levels:
On the whole connection, with the three little dots โฏ on the SharePoint row in Settings โ Integrations:
๐ Resync: restart the sync when content seems to be missing on the SharePoint side
๐ Disconnect: cut the connection between Kraaft and your SharePoint, and therefore the sync of all your conversations
On a single conversation, from its Info tab:
โน๏ธ You stop the sync of that conversation only, the others carry on as usual
๐ก Stopping the sync deletes nothing
In both cases, the files already pushed stay in place on SharePoint ๐ Only the sync stops: nothing new comes through from that moment on.
๐ Limit Kraaft's access to your SharePoint
Kraaft reaches the SharePoint sites the connected account can reach itself ๐ง If your IT department wants to narrow that scope, it's entirely possible.
โ The simplest solution: create a dedicated Microsoft account (often called a service account) and use it for the Kraaft connection
๐ Kraaft will then only reach the SharePoint sites accessible to that account, and nothing else
๐ง A finer configuration is possible for large accounts, with a dedicated Microsoft application and restricted rights
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