Functional Benefits
DocKIT software has been designed and developed to address the specific needs of companies that are deploying Microsoft Office SharePoint Servers / Windows SharePoint Services. DocKIT for SharePoint 2007 assists users in importing their existing documents and file repositories into Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 / Windows SharePoint Services v3.0.
The functional benefits of using DocKIT for SharePoint 2007 include:
- Provides a simple solution to import documents and its associated file properties
- Imports documents from different file server locations and network shares into SharePoint at periodic intervals
- Imports metadata stored in a CSV / Excel / TXT file and applies it to the respective documents in SharePoint
- Imports file properties of source documents namely - Title, Subject, Author, Category, Keywords and Comments and applies it to the respective documents in SharePoint
- Imports Manager and Company file properties in the case of MS-Office documents. Automatically propagates Microsoft Office custom file properties.
- Propagates the original Created Date and Last Modified Date fields from the document in file system to the respective document date fields in SharePoint (DocKIT application must be installed in the SharePoint Server, 32-bit platform, to activate this feature)
- Import documents based on certain file property conditions
- Import documents and metadata using a batch descriptor file
- Applies document properties for documents residing in a SharePoint library using a metadata file
- Renames invalid source folder & file names based on naming rules specified by user when importing them in bulk to a SharePoint library
- Validate task settings to minimize errors during a live transfer
- Re-imports folders / files that failed during the first attempt
- Schedules the import process to run at scheduled interval