Hello all,
I currently develop (client side only) SharePoint solutions internally for a company. They are now wanting to be able to allow partners with our company to submit information to use that can be easily imported into our SharePoint site. We have an external SharePoint site that we can allow other companies to log into.
My question is, how would you go about integrating the two? I don't believe there can be any direct link between the two sites because of a firewall. The solution would likely be something involving a form being filled out and e-mailed to one of us internally and then uploaded into our internal SharePoint site.
I've dealt with using Word document with embedded SharePoint fields to pass external data into SharePoint. I could have them fill out an InfoPath form and pass the data to a Word document, but that would require two separate Word templates. One on the external site, and one on the internal site. Unless I am missunderstanding how "templates" can work, SharePoint fields embedded from an external site library, wouldn't be able to pass to field on an internal site library.