{"id":4306,"date":"2011-05-07T21:14:18","date_gmt":"2011-05-07T20:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/4306-apple-ipad-pages-and-microsoft-sharepoint-it-works.html"},"modified":"2011-05-07T21:14:18","modified_gmt":"2011-05-07T20:14:18","slug":"apple-ipad-pages-and-microsoft-sharepoint-it-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/4306-apple-ipad-pages-and-microsoft-sharepoint-it-works.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple iPad, Pages and Microsoft SharePoint – it works"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve been trying out an Apple iPad 2 recently, and one of the topics that interests me is the extent to which it can replace a laptop.<\/p>\n

That is a nebulous question of course \u2013 it depends what you use a laptop for \u2013 but one essential from my perspective is the ability to create and edit documents. Therefore I installed Apple\u2019s iWork apps in their iPad guise: Pages, Numbers and Keynote.<\/p>\n

Now, one iPad annoyance is that accessing its storage is more awkward than with a laptop. You cannot simply copy files to and fro over a network. You can copy files to the iPad using a network browser app like Stratospherix<\/a> FileBrowser, but that works by opening recognised file types.<\/p>\n

As for Pages, how it stores documents is opaque to the user. They save as you type, and you can manage them in a My Documents view within Pages, but if you want to move them elsewhere you have to use one of five options: email, iWork.com<\/a> which is cloud storage for iWork apps, send to iTunes for synchronization, copy to iDisk<\/a> which is cloud storage for MobileMe, or copy to WebDAV. <\/p>\n

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The options for opening a document are similar, but without the email or for some reason iWork.com options.<\/p>\n

None of these options appealed greatly, except possibly the last one. I use SharePoint, which supports WebDAV, might this enable me to open and save documents from Pages direct to SharePoint? This is convenient for me, since I have SharePoint as a mapped drive in Windows Explorer, and it works both on the internal network and over the internet.<\/p>\n

I typed a document in Pages, then went to My Documents and chose Copy to WebDAV. I chose Word format. Then I entered the URL, username and password for my SharePoint server.<\/p>\n

Rather to my surprise, it connected immediately, and performance was good. I then went to my mapped SharePoint drive in Windows Explorer and there it was.<\/p>\n

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It works the other way too. I typed a document in Word 2010 and saved it to SharePoint in the default .docx format. Pages can import .docx, and the document opened smoothly.<\/p>\n

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I appreciate that I am in a small minority of individuals running SharePoint \u2013 I do it for test and review \u2013 but for business users this is a handy feature. Individuals might want to check out DropDAV<\/a>, though I\u2019ve not tried the service.<\/p>\n

Update<\/strong>: I have tried this successfully with both SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2007. If SharePoint is using a port other than 443 for secure access, then you enter the full URL in Pages, for example https:\/\/sharepoint.yourdomain.com:444<\/p>\n

However I have not yet been able to get this to work with SharePoint in Office 365.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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