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Version 1.0.0.0
To start using the Catenda Sharepoint application a SharePoint site administrator will need to install the Catenda SharePoint app. This app can be found on the Microsoft Marketplace.
With this app you will be able to access all your construction documents in Catenda and simplify the publishing of documents.
This article contains information about the following topics:
Features
With Catenda SharePoint users can extend their SharePoint site with collaboration features for construction projects. Catenda extends SharePoint with support for viewing and managing models, point clouds, and drawings.
Catenda SharePoint allows any file in your Catenda projects to be directly accessible from your SharePoint site. This allows quick access and viewing of any file formats used in the construction industry. The application also allows internally produced documents to be published with one click to the shared workspace in Catenda. New revisions are always matched to the same file as previous revisions.
Uploading files from SharePoint to Catenda
In order to use the Catenda SharePoint integration, you will need to execute the following;
Create a Catenda Account with the same email address you use for Microsoft https://hub.catenda.com/signin
Link and verify that account to SharePoint
You will then be able to use the app to publish selected documents from your SharePoint environment to document section on Catenda.
Select the project, library and the destination folder on Catenda, and publish.
The view of the folder structure in SharePoint is consistent with the view in Catenda.
The published documents will appear in your Catenda project.
Catenda Webpart
On a SharePoint page you can add a webpart, that allows you to connect to the Catenda document viewer;
Create a new page in SharePoint and add a Catenda webpart
After authorizing your account credentials, you can select a project on Catenda and view the documents.
This webpart gives you the ability to open the document directly in Catenda by clicking on the document in the webpart.
In addition, you can drag and drop files from your desktop onto a destination on the Webpart in order to upload these files to Catenda.
Components and permissions
The Catenda SharePoint App contains the following components:
Webpart
Full Page
Teams tab
List View Command Set
Permissions
When documents are uploaded from a SharePoint document-library to Catenda the sharepoint rest-api is used (via the pnpjs library).
Since these permissions are granted to spfx-solutions OOTB no additional grant needs to be made.
The following grants will be needed for the app to access the Catenda backend.
Only delegated permissions are used with the following scopes:
User.Read
offline_access
Files.Read
Sites.Read.All
Through the Catenda SharePoint-app the SharePoint users can give Catenda access to their SharePoint environment.
The access above is only used to approve the sharing of documents to the users Catenda project.
Documents in the SharePoint environment can then be shared from the SharePoint to any Catenda project where the user has write access in the documents section.
Documents that are shared to Catenda are limited by what document the user themselves decides to share to Catenda.