Microsoft Office Technologies
The Office servers and clients that are listed here are optional components with which K2 blackpearl can integrate. Specific components of the 2007 Office system are optional for different roles, as described in the following sections.
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
Optional for Operators
Integration with MOSS 2007 and WSS v3 provides site and user management, content management, and data reporting from within the familiar SharePoint user interface. K2 blackpearl provides custom wizards and templates for different types of sites, such as Publishing sites and Records Centers. Document management is not limited to a single site. Documents can be moved to entirely different sites on different servers, if the process requires it. The K2 blackpearl SharePoint integration also includes security and rights management, SmartObject-data viewing through the Business Data Catalog (BDC), and the rendering of K2 blackpearl InfoPath forms in a browser by InfoPath Forms Services. The following integration features require Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007:
- SmartObject and process data search
- Business Data Catalog*
- InfoPath Forms Services*
- Publishing sites and pages
- Records Management
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The starred (*) features are only available in the Enterprise edition of MOSS 2007. InfoPath Forms Services integration, which provides Browser-enabled InfoPath forms for user interaction, requires Microsoft Office Forms Server 2007 or the Enterprise edition of MOSS 2007. The remaining integration features will work with any edition of SharePoint. |
- K2 Designer for SharePoint
- Workflow integration
- Site management
- User management
- List and library management
- Events
- Document manipulation
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
K2 for SharePoint 2010 makes use of the new functionalities provided in SharePoint 2010 to perform the same functionality available in the K2 for SharePoint 2007. However, there are new functionalities or some technologies previously used and supported in K2 for SharePoint 2007 that are no longer supported in K2 for SharePoint 2010.
InfoPath Forms Services
Optional for Operators
InfoPath Forms Services (IPFS), included as part of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise edition or Microsoft Office Forms Server 2007, is required to render InfoPath forms in the browser. IPFS is also required to display custom InfoPath-based workflow forms in Office applications.
Note: A corresponding version of Office 2007 is also required to enable this functionality. The Pro Plus, Enterprise and Ultimate versions include the ability to show custom InfoPath-based workflow forms, the Message Bar, and the Workflows menu item in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and InfoPath.
Microsoft Office Word, Excel & PowerPoint 2007
Optional for designers, Users
The applications of the 2007 Microsoft Office System, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and InfoPath, are capable of displaying workflow notifications in the Message Bar. This allows a user to open a document that is part of a workflow and perform actions within the application. Furthermore, if the workflow forms are based on InfoPath, these applications can display the form above the current document. If the workflow uses ASP.NET forms, users are taken to the site or the form is displayed in a workflow dialog box.
