Here's what I'm trying to accomplish:
Our organization maintains a sharepoint site for our clients, and sometimes we have situations where different clients (with distinct sharepoint sites on the same server) are involved in the same project, and maintain duplicate content in their respective document libraries.
For obvious reasons, I was wondering whether or not there was a 'supported' method of linking a common folder between two distinct sites?
I.E site A, and B are distinct sharepoint sites, but would like to have a shared folder to place collaborative content in.
Hopefully this makes sense. Thank you in advance for the help!
We're running sharepoint 2010.
Best Answer
Looks like files/folders cannot be "shared" across sites/libraries with full editing functionality, which makes sense as a fail-safe, given that a situation where multiple users editing the same file concurrently across different sites can get unruly quickly.
One similar functionality that sharepoint does allow for, is for file links to be used to link to the actual data located elsewhere. In this scenario, though you cannot make direct edits to the file links/pointers, it does allow for visibility of the file(s) in questions accross multiple sites/libraries. You can actually use this pointers to link to anything with a url. Using file links, you can still save the document locally and do what you wish.
Here's some information on content types