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...
View ArticleOur 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleCode 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...
View ArticleDocRead'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...
View ArticleDocRead 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...
View ArticleRestricting 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...
View ArticleWhat 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.
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleHow 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.
View ArticleSharePoint 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.
View ArticleHow 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!
View ArticleUpgrading 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...
View ArticleManage 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.
View ArticleRunning 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View Article25+ 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleWhat 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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