Doc-To-Help’s integration with SharePoint allows you to take advantage of SharePoint’s Document Libraries and all the related content management features. Doc-To-Help interacts with SharePoint in the following ways:

• Store your content in a Document Library:
  Doc-To-Help has easy-to-use controls to upload your project content (called documents in Doc-To-Help) to a SharePoint Document Library. Once uploaded, you will have a copy of the content in the Document Library and another stored locally, on your machine. You can keep the content synchronized automatically or use an offline mode if you would rather connect and synchronize manually. The latter is typically used when working without connection to the SharePoint site.
• Import from an Existing Document Library:
  You can import existing documents from a Document Library into your Doc-To-Help project. Once imported, you can keep them synchronized or work in offline mode.
• Use SharePoint for source control and collaboration:
  When your documents are in a SharePoint Library, you get all the management features SharePoint offers. Doc-To-Help gives you an interface to check documents in and out so that you can lock them from editing by other users. Doc-To-Help will even visually indicate who checked a document out – whether it was another Doc-To-Help user or directly through SharePoint. If there are conflicts when you check documents in, Doc-To-Help will alert you.
• Apply Workflows:
  In many cases, content needs to go through a process before it is final. For example, a document may need to go through and editor before it is approved for publishing. In this case, a SharePoint workflow would notify the editor when a new document is uploaded or changed. The editor would review and approve the document and then SharePoint would apply an “approved” status. That is just one example. The possibilities are endless.
• Version History:
  SharePoint tracks version history and allows you to rollback to previous versions.
• Manage Translation:
  SharePoint has a special type of Document Library called a Translation Library. This library will automatically create copies of documents for each language and then assign translation tasks to the appropriate people. You can then synchronize the localized content with your Doc-To-Help project and associate it with specific localized outputs.

Using Doc-To-Help and SharePoint is easy. All you need to do is use a SharePoint Document Library as your document repository and use Doc-To-Help as you normally would. The integration between the two acts as a bridge that brings SharePoint’s powerful management capabilities to you and your team.

Using SharePoint as a document repository opens up a deep management feature set.

The best part is that you get all this for free! SharePoint’s free version supports all these features. The obvious benefit is cost savings, but there is another, perhaps more significant benefit. That is reduced risk of project abandonment. It is very common for a team to license expensive management software and plan an extensive implementation only to abandon the project due to difficulty or lack or use. Since SharePoint is free and probably already installed, and using it with Doc-To-Help is so easy, these risks are greatly reduced.