With their ability to create and send scanned images as PDF attachments to email messages, Smart Copiers are making the electronic handling of paper-based correspondence much more affordable. MacroView DMF is a useful tool for organizations wanting to store and manage their scanned images in Microsoft SharePoint. Most Smart Copiers can be configured to send scanned images as PDFs attached to an email messages. The PDF can also store text that has been automatically recognized by the smar ...[Read More]

Organizations that have implemented multiple SharePoint server farms (e.g. in Europe, North America and Asia) appreciate the way MacroView DMF allows them to ‘federate’ those separate SharePoint document stores so that their users see a single logical document store displayed in the MacroView DMF tree-view. The federated tree-view will merge like-named nodes from multiple SharePoint document stores. E.g. all sites in ‘Clients’ site collections on server farms in Europe, North America and A ...[Read More]

Lookup columns in Microsoft SharePoint allow you to select a value (or values) for metadata attributes as you save or edit files in SharePoint. You choose from a drop down that displays entries retrieved from a List in SharePoint. As a Business User you often find yourself choosing the same old values - e.g. the name or ID of a project that you are working on, a classification that is common to your line of work, etc. It would be nice if your most recent selections were displayed at the ...[Read More]

If you are using out-of-the-box Microsoft SharePoint you can move and copy files from one document library to another by cutting and pasting in the Explorer View or by opening in Windows Explorer. Trouble is that this does not preserve any Version History on the files and neither does it prompt for any meta-data required in the destination library. MacroView DMF Explorer does a great job on moving and copying files around in SharePoint. MacroView DMF Explorer is part of the MacroView Macr ...[Read More]