12d Synergy Web App Integrating with Microsoft 365

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This feature is available in 12d Synergy version 5.1.7.413 and later. Please check with your Account Manager for more details.

You can now have a collaborative session via Microsoft 365 Word and Excel with other 12d Synergy users and also with contacts outside 12d Synergy. As a 12d Synergy user, you can initiate and close a collaborative session using the 12d Synergy Web application. If there is a session initiated by another 12d Synergy user, you can choose to join the session provided you have the necessary access rights for that session. If not, you can contact the owner of that session and request for access.

This feature does not work with the 12d Synergy Mobile app.  

1.1. How to Initiate a Collaborative Session

1. In the 12d Synergy Web application, select the Microsoft Word or Excel (.docx, .doc, .xlsx, or .xls) file that you want to work on collaboratively.

2. Do one of the following:

   • Use the Check-out > Check-out & Edit in Microsoft 365 option to check out the file for editing it in the Microsoft 365 application.
     
     

   • Check-out a file using any check-out options, and select the Operations > Edit in Microsoft 365 option. You can also access this option from the button below > Operations.
     

     Only when a file is checked out, you can access the file for collaborative editing.

     

3. In the Start a collaborative session prompt, do the following:

   

   1. Click the icon and add the required 12d Synergy contacts or team to invite them for editing the file collaboratively.

      As a feature of Microsoft 365, you can invite any additional contacts for editing the file collaboratively.

   2. Enter an optional message for the invitees in the Message box.  

   3. Click the Share button.
      You are prompted to sign in to your Microsoft 365 account on a web browser.

4. Login to Microsoft 365 with your credentials.
   Once the authentication is done, the following prompt is displayed.

   

5. Click the Open file button.
   The selected Microsoft Word or Excel file is displayed in the web browser and is now open for editing collaboratively. As a feature of Microsoft 365, you can invite any additional contacts for editing the file collaboratively.
   The status of the file is shown as “Collaborating” in the Folder view application.

   

   
   In the File view, the Microsoft 365 Session is displayed as Active [Go to Session]. You can click on the Active [Go to session] to return to the file in a new tab of the browser.

   
   

   If you want to continue working on a file that you have started previously but have closed the file, say at the end of the day, then you can return to the file using one of these three options.

   • Operations > Continue Microsoft 365 Session

   • Ellipsis button below > Operations > Continue Microsoft 365 Session

   • File view >  Active [Go to Session] link in the Microsoft 365 Session row

   Note that while the file is closed at your end, other collaborative users can still continue to edit the file.

1.2. How to End a Collaborative Session

1. In the 12d Synergy Web application, select the checked out Microsoft Word or Excel (.docx, .doc, .xlsx, or .xls) file that is open for collaborative editing.

2. Select the Check-in > End Microsoft 365 Session option or the ellipsis button below > Check-in > End Microsoft 365 Session option.
   

   

   The file has to be in checked out state for you to end the collaborative session. You cannot check in a file that is open for collaborative editing.

   
   The following prompt is displayed.

   

3. Do one of the following:

   • Select the End & Check in option to replace the local copy with the updated copy (that is edited collaboratively) of the file. Then the file is also checked in to the 12d Synergy application and the session is ended.  

     Once a session is closed, none of the invited contacts can access or see the updated file.  

   • Select the End & Download option to download the updated copy (that is edited collaboratively) of the file into your system’s Downloads folder. The session is then ended.

     • Once a session is closed, none of the invited contacts can access or see the updated file.  

     • On using this option, the file is not checked in to the 12d Synergy application. You can start another collaborative session on the same file.

   • Select the Cancel Session option to just close the collaborative session. A prompt, warning you that all changes made to the Microsoft 365 file (being edited by invitees) are lost when you select this option, is displayed. Click Yes to cancel and end the session.

     When you cancel a session, the local copy of the file does not have any changes (saved or unsaved) done by all the users editing the file. The file is not checked in.  

   Note that when you select any of the three options mentioned above, you will be authenticated as a valid Microsoft 365 user before completing or cancelling any session.

When you select the End & Check in or End & Download options while one or more users is still working on the file, then the following warning message is displayed.

It is highly recommended that you do not click the Yes button until all users complete their updates and close the file in their browser. Else, any changes made within the last minute may not get saved.

1.3. How to Join a Running Collaborative Session

• The collaborative session for that selected file must be in progress for you to join the ongoing session.

• To join a running collaborative session, you (as a 12d Synergy user) should necessarily have read rights to the job that holds the file being edited collaboratively.  

1. In the 12d Synergy Web application, select the Microsoft Word or Excel (.docx, .doc, .xlsx, or .xls) file checked out by another user for collaborative editing.

2. Use any of the following options to join the collaborative session:

   • Operations > Join Microsoft 365 Session option.

   • Ellipsis button in the below-right corner of the page > Operations > Join Microsoft 365 Session option.

   • File view >  Active [Go to Session] link in the Microsoft 365 Session row as shown below.

     

   The following prompt is displayed.

   

3. Click the Close button.

   The file is opened in the web browser and based on the access rights you have for a Microsoft 365 file, you will be able to view/update the file accordingly.