{"id":1374663,"date":"2024-04-28T11:51:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-28T11:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.collaboris.com\/?p=1374663"},"modified":"2024-07-11T15:59:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T15:59:38","slug":"target-external-content-office-365","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.collaboris.com\/target-external-content-office-365\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating links to external content in Office365"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Creating links to external content in Office365<\/h1>\n<p>From time to time you may need to give the effect of storing documents in SharePoint Online, without them actually being stored in SharePoint Online document libraries. Maybe you have documents in external systems that you want to make available with SharePoint Online. Alternatively, you may have found an interesting blog post or video that you want to share with your colleagues. Creating Links to external content opens up a whole new world of opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft 365 \/ SharePoint Online \/ Office 365 is an amazing place to store documents and important information. Documents and links are searchable, sharable and secure. SharePoint security ensures any sensitive information does not get into the wrong hands.<\/p>\n<p>Documents can be made available in SharePoint Online with a few easy steps using the &#8216;<strong>Link<\/strong>&#8216; option. This &#8216;How to&#8217; post will first explain how to create a link. Then we will consider how to distribute that &#8216;link&#8217; with DocRead.<\/p>\n<p>Using DocRead will mean that you can request that users read and confirm the document used in the link by a deadline.<\/p>\n<h2>Creating an external link to a Document<\/h2>\n<p>Firstly, navigate to the document library where you want to add the \u2018<strong>Link<\/strong>\u2019. From the <strong>+ New<\/strong> menu select \u2018<strong>Link<\/strong>\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"aspect-ratio: auto 1023 \/ 649;\" title=\"link option\" src=\"https:\/\/www.collaboris.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/link-option.png\" alt=\"image showing the add a new link option in Office 365\" width=\"734\" height=\"466\" data-id=\"1378366\" data-init-width=\"1023\" data-init-height=\"649\" data-link-wrap=\"true\" data-width=\"734\" data-height=\"466\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Add the URL into the &#8220;Create link to&#8221; box<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"aspect-ratio: auto 396 \/ 226;\" title=\"create link to\" src=\"https:\/\/www.collaboris.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/create-link-to.png\" alt=\"image showing where to add the external link\" width=\"297\" height=\"170\" data-id=\"1378367\" data-init-width=\"396\" data-init-height=\"226\" data-link-wrap=\"true\" data-width=\"297\" data-height=\"170\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> The URL can be *<strong>anything<\/strong>* such as a URL from an Internet\/Intranet web page, a document in another document library, YouTube video, document in another system and so on. In fact, as long as it can be navigated to by the end-user it can be linked to and stored in your document library.<\/p>\n<p>The links to items can be stored in the same libraries as your normal SharePoint documents. In the example below, I created a separate library to contain all External Links.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"aspect-ratio: auto 873 \/ 373;\" title=\"external link library\" src=\"https:\/\/www.collaboris.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/external-link-library.png\" alt=\"image showing several external links held in a SharePoint library\" width=\"689\" height=\"294\" data-id=\"1378368\" data-init-width=\"873\" data-init-height=\"373\" data-width=\"689\" data-link-wrap=\"true\" data-height=\"294\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now you have a link to an external item, you may want to target it to different people in your organization. Other employees may find this information useful and want to use the link and read the information it contains. DocRead can help you assign the information to groups of users and also provides dashboard reports so you can track who has\/has not read it.<\/p>\n<h1>Interested in DocRead for Office 365?<\/h1>\n<h2>Using DocRead to target the external links to the right people<\/h2>\n<p>Ensure that the DocRead functionality is activated on the SharePoint library that contains your external link. Then click the ellipsis for the link to access the DocRead settings.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"aspect-ratio: auto 1088 \/ 380;\" title=\"click the ellipsis for the linked item\" src=\"https:\/\/www.collaboris.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/click-the-ellipsis-for-the-linked-item.png\" alt=\"image highlighting the ellipsis menu\" width=\"788\" height=\"275\" data-id=\"1378372\" data-init-width=\"1088\" data-init-height=\"380\" data-link-wrap=\"true\" data-width=\"788\" data-height=\"275\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then select &#8220;DocRead settings&#8221; from the menu.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.collaboris.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DocRead-settings.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"aspect-ratio: auto 266 \/ 131;\" title=\"DocRead settings\" src=\"https:\/\/www.collaboris.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DocRead-settings.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"90\" data-id=\"1378374\" data-init-width=\"266\" data-init-height=\"131\" data-link-wrap=\"true\" data-width=\"183\" data-height=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This will open the DocRead document settings window, where you can choose the group of people who need to read this information.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"aspect-ratio: auto 791 \/ 436;\" title=\"create a new audience\" src=\"https:\/\/www.collaboris.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/create-a-new-audience.png\" alt=\"image showing the create a new audience option\" width=\"553\" height=\"305\" data-id=\"1378373\" data-init-width=\"791\" data-init-height=\"436\" data-link-wrap=\"true\" data-width=\"553\" data-height=\"305\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Select a group of people in the Required users box. Each person in the group will receive a DocRead assignment. They will need to follow the link and comply with your conditions before marking the task complete.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"aspect-ratio: auto 621 \/ 686;\" title=\"Create a document audience\" src=\"https:\/\/www.collaboris.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Create-a-document-audience.png?_t=1682504503\" alt=\"Image showing the create a document audience screen\" width=\"621\" height=\"686\" data-id=\"1373998\" data-init-width=\"621\" data-init-height=\"686\" data-link-wrap=\"true\" data-width=\"621\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once the item is \u2018Checked In\u2019, \u2018Published\u2019 and \u2018Approved\u2019 (if workflow is enabled), DocRead will create \u2018Reading Assignments\u2019 for all of the people in the groups specified. Each person will then be given a set number of days to confirm reading the item before it falls overdue. Users will also receive an email notifying them that they are required to read the document. In addition to this, the DocRead web part is usually placed in a prominent place in SharePoint Online so that users can never avoid their required reading!<\/p>\n<p>The screen below is an example of what the end user sees when they click on the new reading tasks. They can view information about the document (which is really a link), and also click \u2018<strong>View Document<\/strong>\u2019 to access it. Once the user is happy they have read the page, they are then required to confirm the document using the 3rd tab, by clicking the \u2018<strong>I agree<\/strong>\u2019 and clicking &#8216;<strong>Confirm<\/strong>&#8216;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.collaboris.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Reading-required-panel-with-i-agree-ticked.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"aspect-ratio: auto 496 \/ 570;\" title=\"Reading required panel with i agree ticked\" src=\"https:\/\/www.collaboris.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Reading-required-panel-with-i-agree-ticked.png?_t=1682680138\" alt=\"\" width=\"449\" height=\"570\" data-id=\"1374594\" data-init-width=\"496\" data-init-height=\"570\" data-link-wrap=\"true\" data-width=\"449\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Conclusion<\/h2>\n<p>I hope this post has shown how easy it is to incorporate external sources of information to your SharePoint environment and also how to target external content to users. 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