Configuring Adobe to Allow Documents to be Saved on RRU SharePoint Site
With this procedure you can add a SharePoint location to Adobe's file locations to facilitate faster saving of documents to SharePoint.
- Open Internet Explorer (Must be Internet Explorer, not Firefox or Chrome)
- Paste or enter the path of the SharePoint location you want to save the file in - Ie. https://royalroadsca.sharepoint.com/sites/SiteNameHere
- This is going to be the root of the SharePoint site URL. Make sure to remove any file name at the end of the link
- Log in with your Computer/Academic Account if prompted
- When you can see the file location, you can now close Internet Explorer
- Open the file you want to save in Adobe Acrobat
- Click File → Save As → Add Account
- Click Add button under SharePoint Site
- Enter the location name (a friendly name so you will recognize the location like "Test SharePoint Site Name")
- Paste or enter the path of the SharePoint location you want to save the file in - Ie. https://royalroadsca.sharepoint.com/sites/SiteNameHere
- Click Continue
- A progress bar will appear after a few seconds showing that it's connecting to the SharePoint Online site
- Note - The user MUST have access to the SharePoiint site, trying to access a site where access permissions have not been granted will result in the following message:
- Scroll down in the folders list to Shared Documents
- Click on Shared Documents.
- Select subfolder or save there
- This will place the file in the Document Library in SharePoint
- Click Save
- The following popup may come up requesting additional data
- You can provide the value or just click Okay/continue.
- The following popup may come up requesting additional data
- You are Done
Troubleshooting
How to do various tasks once the above is complete
Unable to access the sites
Make sure the Internet Explorer lists https://royalroadsca-files.sharepoint.com and https://royalroadsca-myfiles/sharepoint.com in the Trusted Sites
- Click on Internet Options (click on the Sprocket)
- Click on Security tab
- Select Trusted sites and then click the Sites button
This was rolled out to all computers by Group Policy
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