{"id":723,"date":"2010-05-16T18:13:50","date_gmt":"2010-05-16T18:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/?p=723"},"modified":"2010-05-15T13:27:17","modified_gmt":"2010-05-15T13:27:17","slug":"sharepoint-on-your-iphone-with-moshare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/05\/16\/sharepoint-on-your-iphone-with-moshare\/","title":{"rendered":"SharePoint on your iPhone with Moshare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that iPhone\u2019s, and I guess now the iPad, are increasingly being used in\u00a0business.\u00a0 While some would probably argue about how appropriate that is, ultimately I think IT organisations should be embracing this change and be working out ways to help their businesses use and benefit from these tools securely.<\/p>\n<p>As the company I work for are big users of both iPhones and SharePoint, I always take a look at apps that try to make the two work together.\u00a0 One such app is <a title=\"Moprise Moshare\" href=\"http:\/\/moprise.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Moshare<\/a> from <a title=\"Moprise\" href=\"http:\/\/moprise.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Moprise<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Moshare allows you to connect the app to specific SharePoint sites and access the lists, documents etc in the Site.\u00a0 It seems to work pretty well, you can connect to a site easily provided you know the URL, and the app then displays the various lists and libraries within it (see the pictures below).<\/p>\n<p>Within the libraries documents are listed and can be opened as you\u2019d expect.\u00a0 I\u2019ve tried it out with the obvious Office documents and PDF\u2019s that you\u2019d expect to find and all open fine.\u00a0 What\u2019s more it provides searching within the site, though I couldn\u2019t find a way to navigate to sub-sites \u2013 they have to be added separately.<\/p>\n<p>Something I\u2019d like to see added would be the ability to enter your password at the time of use.\u00a0 At the moment you can\u2019t add the site without having to enter your username and password and have the iPhone cache it.\u00a0 Without details of how those credentials are stored, I can see some IT administrators not liking that at all.<\/p>\n<p>All in all though it\u2019s a nice little app.\u00a0 As an added bonus at the moment it\u2019s free to celebrate the launch of SharePoint 2010, so head over to the app store and grab a copy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Mosharesiteview.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"Moshare-siteview\" src=\"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Mosharesiteview_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Moshare-siteview\" width=\"144\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/MoshareLibraryView.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"Moshare-LibraryView\" src=\"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/MoshareLibraryView_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Moshare-LibraryView\" width=\"144\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/MoshareDocumentView.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"Moshare-DocumentView\" src=\"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/MoshareDocumentView_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Moshare-DocumentView\" width=\"144\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Moshare iPhone app from Moprise connects your Apple iPhones to Microsoft Sharepoint server sites and provides wasy access to documents, libraries and lists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[31,291,13,93,48],"class_list":["post-723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-apple","tag-itunes","tag-microsoft","tag-office","tag-sharepoint","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":731,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions\/731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}