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Compliance policies assigned with DocRead by our customers

DocRead for SharePoint is now being used to send out compliance policies by organizations all over the world to help ensure that staff and third parties are compliant with corporate policy. Here's a...

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Our new quiz component will allow you to ask questions about your policies

We are now well under way with the development of our new add-on module for DocRead called DocSurvey. DocSurvey's main purpose is to allow DocRead administrators to configure a quiz or survey at the...

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How to create a SharePoint Survey in under 5 minutes

This post will discuss how to create a Survey in SharePoint using out of the box functionality and nothing else! The example we will use is to create a survey that asks employees to answer questions...

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How to send an email when a SharePoint site or web is deleted

For various governance reasons you may want to email the site owner when a SharePoint site is deleted. This blog post outlines an approach to easily notify site admins and owners once their site has...

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Code Sample : How to programmatically send an email in SharePoint

If your SharePoint farm has been configured to use an SMTP server, then it is possible to send an email in code using the SPUtility class. The c# code below illustrates how to send a mail and return an...

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DocRead's first day on SharePoint 2013

We've already been asked by a couple of customers whether DocRead will run (and be supported) on SharePoint 2013. Obviously, our answer is a resounding yes! However, until now we haven't sized up how...

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DocRead Architecture Design

DocRead can distribute, process, track and reporting on reading tasks for 1000’s of end users. To achieve this, an enterprise architecture had to be designed and implemented. This article gives a quick...

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Restricting the use of DocRead within your organization

DocRead is a fantastic tool which can be used throughout an organization to electronically distribute important documents to specific groups of users and then monitor via a reporting suite who has and...

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What is the difference between a SharePoint Group and a SharePoint Audience

This post gives a brief introduction into what a SharePoint audience and a SharePoint group is and then ends with a summary of the main differences.

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How to use Search (KeywordQuery) to query user profiles in SharePoint

Have you ever need to write C# code that returns a list of people (user profiles) and for it also to be lightning quick? Obviously, you could use the UserProfileManager to do this, but be warned it's...

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How to Create a SharePoint User Group

This blog post explains in very simple terms how to create a SharePoint group! Treat it as a quick-reference guide.

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SharePoint Community Newsletter - Happy 2013

Just a quick post to say that we have just published the very first SharePoint Community Newsletter for 2013 and have gathered some great content together.

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How to support multiple versions of SharePoint in a single Visual Studio...

If you are ever tasked with having to support more than one version of SharePoint in a Visual Studio Solution (e.g SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013), then this post will hopefully be of some help!

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Upgrading a custom application to SharePoint 2013

Just before Christmas I was tasked with the wonderful job of getting DocRead (our Policy Management Software for SharePoint) working on SharePoint 2013. I had actually tackled this a couple of weeks...

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Manage employee acknowledgement forms with DocRead and SharePoint

If you are an organization that needs to distribute and track policies, documents, procedures, manuals to your employees, then you will know that this can be an onerous and time consuming task.

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Running a SharePoint software company

When setting out on the road to develop and sell a product in SharePoint - as we were four years ago - you will more than likely have the idea that writing the code and perfecting your product is the...

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How to learn SharePoint and where to get the training

I have moderated the 'SharePoint Community Group' on LinkedIn daily for four years now and the question that keeps rearing it's head is : "I am new to SharePoint, where can I learn it?", or "Are there...

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25+ Tools and Services to use in a SharePoint software company

After publishing 'Running a SharePoint software company' I got a lot of thank you's for mentioning Trello. (Apparently, not many had heard of it). Anyway, this got me thinking. Wouldn't it be great to...

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The best SharePoint blogs in the world

This list illustrates the Top SharePoint Blogs on the net. I think there's a great mix of technical and business content. I intend to keep this list up to date and monitor each blog for frequency and...

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What are your favourite SharePoint 2013 Features ?

SharePoint 2013 has shipped and it's now main stream. We'd love to hear what your favourite 2013 features are, so get adding them. Also vote up the killer ones and embed the list to see if we can make...

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