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[15/05/2009] SharePoint on the iPhone?
 
Categories: SharePoint, Office System 2007, iPhone, WSS
 

Yes that is correct; I did say SharePoint on the iPhone!! Recently I got an iPhone and since then I have been obsessed with it. It is a fantastic tool for work as well as looking sexy!! Since getting it I have been teaching myself how to write programs for it and looking into how to get it to talk to SharePoint. As I have been working on it, I have wondered why no-one had written anything, and then out of the blue I stumbled across the following two links:

http://www.isharephone.com/ (Not tested yet)

http://www.spyk.com/Pages/Default.aspx (Tested and using)

After looking into them I decided to try the iShare for the iPhone. So after I installed it what do we get?

You are able to add multiple accounts; mine is set to my blog site.

Once you set up the connection you are then able to select the browse button and view your structure of the site.

If we now click on the downloads library we can then see the types of the library.

If we now click into the articles category we should now see our documents

Upon clicking on one of the PDF documents it will then load and the render the file as needed.

 

If we go back to the root and this time select the links list it renders as shown below.

Let's say we want to add a new one, we can press the plus button at the top right. You should then see the content types that are available to select from listed.

I will choose the link option and I am then presented with the fields that I need to complete, one of which is URL. If I press the URL field I am presented with the keyboard as normal and can then type.

Once done I press OK and then my new link is listed within the list.

 

 

If I wanted to also see my posts on the blog and make some quick edits I could access the posts library from the root site.

To see one of the posts I simply select the post and it renders in a form view.

I can then select Edit from the menu bar and it will allow me to edit the content of each field.

Now this is great but what about if you don't know what it is you are looking for. You are able to search from the application.

You can then work with the links, files etc as you would normally. All in all this is a great product, ok no it may not render the entire site as I wanted but it renders in it a way that means I can make quick changes updates etc while on the go.

I am using it myself for some of the SharePoint sites at work where I need to be able to view and update things while on the move. I recommend you pop onto the App Store and download a copy of it!!

Download iShare - SharePoint for iPhone on the iTunes appstore

 
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Saturday, 16 May 2009 09:56 by John Liu
iShare is a labor of love from someone that also loves SharePoint and the iPhone. Check out how it will use iPhone's VPN support!

Monday, 1 Jun 2009 08:33 by Mattias
Hi. I am wondering if there is any possibility of downloading the webpart you mention in this blog: http://www.helloitsliam.com/archive/2008/10/16/media-player-web-part-new.aspx (and the "Contact" page does not work, It just returns with "Failure to send mail") Regards, Mattias Carlsson

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