[Qgis-user] QGIS and geopackages in sharepoint environement

[Gert-Jan van der Weijden (GISNederland)]

Hi,

My employer is moving from "traditional" network shares to a 100% 
Sharepoint/MS Teams solution.

The idea behind Sharepoint (and OneDrive) is that the content (files) is 
synchronised between server and local PC's.
1. For large files this means a lot of network traffic on each single edit.

2. The path to a dataset (geopackage, shapefile, geotiff) to be used in 
a QGis project (.qgz) is the local path b(c:\users\*joe*\data\etc). 
However, when Joe's college Jane opens this QGis project the next day, 
the data is synchronized to her local path (c:\users\jane\data\etc.), 
but the QGis project file (.qgz) is still pointing to c:\users\joe, 
which doesn't exist on Jane's laptop)

Solutions?
a. Microsoft used to advertise a way to make drive mappings to 
Sharepoint sites. That solution was based upon an Internet Explorer 
library, and is no longer supported. I tried to use it; it's clumsy and 
unreliable.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/map-a-network-drive-to-a-sharepoint-library-751148de-f579-42f9-bc8c-fcd80ccf0f53

b. 3rd party solutions like ZeeDrive 
(https://www.thinkscape.com/Map-Network-Drives-To-Office-365-OneDrive/) 
and CloudDriveMapper (https://www.iamcloud.com/cloud-drive-mapper/).

I haven't tried these solutions yet, bu will do so somewhere this month.

By the way, also on the "commercial side of Planet GIS" (Esri's ArcGIS) 
there's no solution for this problem (yet):
https://support.esri.com/en/technical-article/000025605

The problems as described on that Esri support page are prette much the 
same as in QGis+Sharepoint.
The so-called "solution or workaround" is hardly to be taken seriously 
by a professional GIS user


Apart from the Sharepoint-problems as described above, Geopackages are 
not designed for a multi-user environment.


Kind regards,

Gert-Jan



On 5-8-2022 19:49, chris hermansen via Qgis-user wrote:
> Guido and list,
>
> On Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 6:35 AM Guido Häfliger via Qgis-user 
> <qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>
>     Hello
>
>     We are discussing in our company to switch from local
>     fileserver/NAS to Sharepoint (hosted in cloud). Will QGIS-projects
>     and geopackages work on sharepoint environment or do we have to
>     expect a lot of troubles? Have anybody experience with QGIS and
>     geopackages on sharepoint? Will we encounter problems if
>     geopackages are opened by several users?
>
>
>
> I can't speak to the use of QGIS with Sharepoint, but we've tried 
> using both QGIS and ESRI products with Google Drive for Desktop and 
> the name remapping done by GDD in Windows Explorer is not picked up by 
> the file manager component used by them; so the file names do not 
> appear as expected.
>
> I've run across the same thing with QGIS and the Google Drive - 
> Nautilus connection in GNOME / Linux and not found a solution.
>
> I suggest you try before you buy.
>
>
> -- 
> Chris Hermansen · clhermansen "at" gmail "dot" com
>
> C'est ma façon de parler.
>
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