Bamboo SharePoint Wiki Import and Export Released to Bamboo Labs

The SharePoint Wiki Import and Export solution provides end-users with a powerful tool to create a wiki page directly from the content of a Microsoft Word document, and to export wiki pages to a PDF.  Users can import the contents of a document from Word (Doc, Docx) to the SharePoint Wiki Library, including style, tables, images, index, etc, and export single- or multipage wikis too. PDF files quickly and easily.

How does it work?

Import to the wiki page from a Word document
After you have installed the SharePoint Wiki Import and Export, follow the steps outlined below:

    1. Go to the Wiki Library where you want to create the wiki page.
    2. From the General Settings section, select Bamboo SharePoint Wiki settings.

SharePoint Wiki Import and Export

    1. Under the Wiki images storage section, select a Library in the drop-down list to store the images for your wiki page. This library can be either a document library or a picture library. We will store all images from the imported document to this library and link them to the wiki page.

SharePoint Wiki Import and Export

    1. Click OK.
    2. From the New menu in your wiki library, select the menu action “Import from MS Word Document” to import a Word document to a wiki page:

SharePoint Wiki Import and Export

    1. On the Import page, click the Browse button to select your Word document. Enter a wiki Page Name and then click the “Import” button:

SharePoint Wiki Import and Export

  • Your Word document will begin importing to the wiki page.

Results:

    • Original Word document:

SharePoint Wiki Import and Export

    • Imported wiki page:

SharePoint Wiki Import and Export

Export single or multi Wiki page to PDF

Export single-page wiki too.PDF

Follow the steps outlined below:

  1. Go to the wiki library containing the wiki page you wish to export.
  2. Select the wiki page to export.
      • You can select a wiki page for export by two methods:
      • From the Edit Control block, select Export to PDF to export the wiki page.

    SharePoint Wiki Import and Export

      • Open a wiki page then select the Export to PDF button.

    SharePoint Wiki Import and Export

  3. Export Configuration page
    SharePoint Wiki Import and Export

      • Click the OK button to begin the export. The PDF file will be generated shortly.
      • Result:

    SharePoint Wiki Import and Export

Export multipage wiki too.PDF

Follow the steps outlined below:

    1. Go to the wiki library containing the wiki pages you wish to export.
    2. From the Action Menu, select Export to PDF to export multipage wikis.

SharePoint Wiki Import and Export

  1. Multipage wiki export configuration
    SharePoint Wiki Import and Export
  • Input the desired. PDF file name.
  • Select wiki pages to export.
  • Configure Export Options and Page Layout.
  • Click the Export button to begin the export process.

Results:

SharePoint Wiki Import and Export

SharePoint Environment

  • The SharePoint Wiki Import and Export have been designed for both WSS v3.0 and MOSS 2007.
  • The SharePoint Wiki Import and Export product doesn’t require MS Office or Open Office libraries to be present on the SharePoint server.
  • This is a Site collection scope feature. If it is activated at the site collection, then all wiki page libraries in the site collection will have the Import/Export options.

Limitations

  • Unable to create bookmarks in the exported. PDF file.