This is Part 3 in the series Managing Documents with SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 - MacroView DMF Adds Value in 10 Ways. For the full text of this article, click here.
From a document management perspective, improved search capability is one of the standout features of SharePoint 2010. Ironically though, you cannot perform a search for documents from within Office 2010 – you need to go into the web browser.
MacroView DMF™ adds value by making it easy a
nd convenient for users to search a SharePoint document store while they work in familiar applications such as Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Word®.
MacroView DMF™ comes with Email Search and Keyword Search panels that provide an intuitive interface to either SharePoint 2010 Search or FAST Search for SharePoint 2010. DMF Search Panels are a convenient and intuitive way
to search for documents in SharePoint – direct from Outlook and other popular client-side applications. The DMF Search Panels facilitate searching for documents based on their content and / or metadata. You can save and re-run your searches and search results can be previewed when run from the DMF Pane in Outlook.
The MacroView DMF™ Search Panels can be extended and configured by editing an XML definition file. In this way, an organization can readily provide its users with a document searching experience that is tailored to reflect its business requirements and metadata structure.