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:
    
    

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• Scroll down in the folders list to Shared Documents
  
  

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• 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
    
    

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  • You can provide the value or just click Okay/continue.

• You are Done

Troubleshooting

How to do various tasks once the above is complete

• https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/access-sharepoint-files.html

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