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Helen Jones
| Apr 25, 2013
This post explains how to amend the DocRead reading list web part to maximise it's impact for the end user. It specifically shows how to exclude completed tasks and select columns to be displayed.
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Mark Jones
| Apr 16, 2013
If you need to put together a SharePoint Developer machine and want some inspiration into what tools, services and programs need to go on it, then look no further. If I have missed any, please add them. As always, feel free to embed the list in your own blogs.
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Mark Jones
| Apr 14, 2013
This post will outline how to add a web part to every users MySite. The web part we are going to add is the standard DocRead Reading Tasks web part, but this process can be applied to any web part in SharePoint.
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Mark Jones
| Apr 12, 2013
Over at the SharePoint-Community.net, we are really please to announce that we have just made a new free eBook available about SharePoint 2013. The book is called: A (p)review of SharePoint Server 2013 and written by SharePoint-Community.Net founder Gokan Ozcifci together with Valentin Lecerf.
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Helen Jones
| Apr 05, 2013
This post describes the two different ways you can easily manage documents that require regular employee acceptance with DocRead.
For example, lets assume you want to issue a "Safe Winter Driving" document to your company car drivers every autumn and ensure that they all read and acknowledge the item.
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Mark Jones
| Apr 04, 2013
A list of all the things that you need to consider when deciding whether to maintain 1 SharePoint document library or to use many ? As you would imagine there is no correct answer, but hopefully this list allows you to make an informed decision.
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Mark Jones
| Apr 03, 2013
From time to time you may need to give the effect of storing documents in SharePoint, without them actually being stored in SharePoint document libraries. Maybe you have a raft of documents in external systems that you want to make available by SharePoint. This post shows how to make documents available in SharePoint using the “Link To a Document” content type.
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Mark Jones
| Mar 28, 2013
This post provides an overview of what a DocRead Reading Task is and how they get created and managed by DocRead Timer jobs.
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Mark Jones
| Mar 11, 2013
DocRead for SharePoint is very powerful because it’s very easy to configure an important document to be sent and tracked to all employees in an organization in just a few clicks. Once a document has been distributed, an employee will be notified by email (on creation, completion and overdue) and will also be able to view their reading tasks via DocRead web parts placed in prominent such as the Intranet home page or a user’s MySite. Doing this means that if they are required (or recommended) to read a document there’s simply no escape.
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Mark Jones
| Feb 27, 2013
If you haven’t heard about “Location-based metadata defaults” or “Column default value settings” then I hope to explain it simply. Try to think of it as a rather cool way to apply default values for your documents metadata (columns) based on which document library folder you are saving them to.
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Mark Jones
| Feb 27, 2013
To celebrate the launch of SharePoint-Community.net the team are running a fun competition to find out which member can write the best piece of 'Top Content' by a specific date and time. So, whoever manages to be ranked number #1 in the 'Top Content' list on Wednesday 6th March at 11pm GMT will be given a free pass* worth 1,390 Euro to the SharePoint Conference for Business Users, taking place in Amsterdam on 20-22 March!
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Mark Jones
| Feb 19, 2013
Just a quick post to say that we are all booked up to go to the SharePoint Conference for Business Users 2013 (20-22 March) in Amsterdam. This is the first time we will be attending a conference that is targeted more towards business users, than technical. We are currently deciding what we are going to do from a marketing perspective in the 2nd half of 2013 and conferences are something we are considering sponsoring.
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Mark Jones
| Feb 18, 2013
Last week was fun (and no this isn't a post about not sneezing when using IE10)! We had two major issues still to overcome in DocRead for SharePoint 2013 before we could release it. So I decided to help out and take a look. BTW, if you are using JSON in SharePoint 2013 you may just get caught by this, so it's worth 5 minutes.
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Mark Jones
| Feb 13, 2013
Over the last 2 years - whilst helping customers benefit from DocRead for SharePoint - we have discussed the management of policies and procedures (within SharePoint) on several occasions. We have found that some organizations are really struggling to understand how SharePoint can help them manage the entire life-cycle, (not just the distribution and tracking side that DocRead helps with).
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Mark Jones
| Feb 09, 2013
Managing the full life-cycle of a policy or procedure in SharePoint requires you to use many of it's features and can be quite a daunting task if SharePoint isn't your day job. To help share best practice and encourage sharing of ideas we have created a closed LinkedIn Group.
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Mark Jones
| Feb 07, 2013
Both new and experienced SharePoint developers, architects and end-users need to discuss problems and chew over ideas about SharePoint. There's quite a few major forums and groups out there, such as the SharePoint Community Group on Linked, but there's plenty more! So, to help you find them, here's a list of the 'Top SharePoint Discussion forums and groups'. Please vote for your favourites
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Mark Jones
| Feb 05, 2013
If you want to learn SharePoint, then this list shows some of the best SharePoint training and education resources there are. Vote, embed and have your say!
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Mark Jones
| Feb 03, 2013
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 it one awesome resource!
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Mark Jones
| Jan 29, 2013
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 quality of content. Please feel free to use the 'Add to List' button if you think there are some missing, however, I won't accept all blogs as I really want to keep it to a 'best of SharePoint breed' list.
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Mark Jones
| Jan 27, 2013
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 put together a list showing some of the tools and services that we use (or are recommended) to use in your company ?
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