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<p>Hi, <br>
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<p>My employer is moving from "traditional" network shares to a 100%
Sharepoint/MS Teams solution.</p>
<p>The idea behind Sharepoint (and OneDrive) is that the content
(files) is synchronised between server and local PC's.<br>
1. For large files this means a lot of network traffic on each
single edit. <br>
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<p>2. The path to a dataset (geopackage, shapefile, geotiff) to be
used in a QGis project (.qgz) is the local path b(c:\users\<b>joe</b>\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)<br>
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Solutions?<br>
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.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/map-a-network-drive-to-a-sharepoint-library-751148de-f579-42f9-bc8c-fcd80ccf0f53">https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/map-a-network-drive-to-a-sharepoint-library-751148de-f579-42f9-bc8c-fcd80ccf0f53</a><br>
<p>b. 3rd party solutions like ZeeDrive
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.thinkscape.com/Map-Network-Drives-To-Office-365-OneDrive/">https://www.thinkscape.com/Map-Network-Drives-To-Office-365-OneDrive/</a>)
and CloudDriveMapper
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.iamcloud.com/cloud-drive-mapper/">https://www.iamcloud.com/cloud-drive-mapper/</a>).</p>
I haven't tried these solutions yet, bu will do so somewhere this
month. <br>
<p>By the way, also on the "commercial side of Planet GIS" (Esri's
ArcGIS) there's no solution for this problem (yet):<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://support.esri.com/en/technical-article/000025605">https://support.esri.com/en/technical-article/000025605</a></p>
<p>The problems as described on that Esri support page are prette
much the same as in QGis+Sharepoint.<br>
The so-called "solution or workaround" is hardly to be taken
seriously by a professional GIS user</p>
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<p>Apart from the Sharepoint-problems as described above,
Geopackages are not designed for a multi-user environment.
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<p>Kind regards, <br>
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<p>Gert-Jan</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5-8-2022 19:49, chris hermansen via
Qgis-user wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">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?</span></p>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>I've run across the same thing with QGIS and the Google
Drive - Nautilus connection in GNOME / Linux and not found a
solution.</div>
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<div>I suggest you try before you buy. <br>
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C'est ma façon de parler.</div>
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