1 Tweet from Destruction? – How’s your Social Media Policy?

1 Tweet from Destruction? – How’s your Social Media Policy?Why would I need one? What harm can be done on social media?Social media screw ups can have serious consequences! From a very quick search on the internet you will find they can trigger anything from loosing customers or market advantage…  In November, Twitter CFO Anthony […]

Error Loading Survey: You have not been given permissions to complete the survey

Error Loading Survey: You have not been given permissions to complete the survey If you have created a SharePoint survey and users are receiving an “Error loading survey” message or “You have not been given permissions to complete the survey” message when trying to access and complete the survey as shown below: You can solve this […]

How to improve your SOP training using SharePoint

How to improve your SOP training using SharePointA huge problem in business is whether we can be really sure that training on company Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) has genuinely been read, understood and ultimately can be adhered to by staff members.Should we rely on meetings and phone calls?One answer would be to make sure that you interview your […]

DocRead and the SharePoint User Profile Service explained

DocRead and the SharePoint User Profile Service explainedA question just came in from one of our customers and it’s not the first time, so thought I would share my edited response. The question went a bit like this : “Do I need to have the SharePoint User Profile Service running to use DocRead?” When DocRead […]

How to delete a Survey

How to delete a SurveyNote:  This content applies to the on-premise version of DocRead only. For the Office 365 version have a look here. To delete a survey you first need ensure that it is not attached to any document or else the users will receive an error if they try to complete it via the document […]

Why can’t the “Domain Users” AD group be used in a DocRead audience

Why can’t the “Domain Users” AD group be used in a DocRead audienceNote: The information in this post relates to DocRead for on-premises SharePoint only. DocRead uses the SharePoint API to identify the members of SharePoint and Active Directory (AD) groups (more specifically we use the SPUtility.GetPrincipalsInGroup method), unfortunately this API does not seem to support the “Domain Users” AD group […]

Permission levels required to create a Survey in SharePoint

Permission levels required to create a Survey in SharePointThe permissions to create Surveys are controlled by SharePoint itself. By default SharePoint allows users with the “Contributor” right to create Surveys in a site (so any member of the SharePoint Site Members group will get this permission by default). Using enhanced quiz / survey features in SharePoint using […]

Does DocRead still see user accounts that have been disabled in AD?

Does DocRead still see user accounts that have been disabled in AD?DocRead depends on SharePoint to get the membership of groups and audiences. Based on our tests and under some circumstances SharePoint will still return user accounts that have been disabled in AD. Because of this we recommend that the safest way for DocRead to […]

Delegate Controls used by DocRead

Delegate Controls used by DocReadIf the DocRead ribbon is not shown on your SharePoint site after installing and attaching DocRead to a document library then you may have a customised master page that does not contain the delegate controls used by DocRead. To help to diagnose the problem here is the list of standard SharePoint […]

Collab365 Conference – Everything you need to know!

Collab365 Conference – Everything you need to know!We are delighted to announce that on October 8th 2015 we will be running a 24-hour online, free conference along similar lines as SP24. Our conference this year will be an event driven by the community for the community. This time our focus will be Office 365 (including SharePoint, Exchange, Azure, Office Apps […]