RN17: DocRead & DocSurvey for SharePoint V2.7 (2.7.50112.1)Note: The information in this post relates to DocRead for on-premises SharePoint only. Please note: This is a historic release note and does not relate to the most recent version of the software available. Please visit our release note archive here to view a complete list of published release notes.12th […]
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Five ways to improve internal communications in your organizationSpeak to the HR or Marketing department of most companies and they will tell you the importance they place on good internal communications. Every organization values how it speaks to its own staff, and trumpets the methods it uses to give people a voice. Yet despite these best […]
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How to restore tasks to a site that’s been deactivatedPlease Note : This Knowledgebase Article requires you to have recent backup’s of the DocRead database and the SharePoint content database. If you don’t have these, then this solution is not possible. There are methods to restore tasks from receipts, but this is far more complicated […]
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Why aren’t Line Manager Reports working?Note: The information in this post relates to DocRead for on-premises SharePoint only. As of version DocRead 2.0 we introduced some really cool functionality to allow Line Managers to : Get notified (via email) when an employees required reading becomes overdue (or optionally assigned and/or completed). View 3 new Reports showing a break down of the status […]
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How to automatically assign reading tasks to new employees“We are currently using DocRead to manage an employee handbook. We have a group of every user in the company we have sent the handbook out to a couple weeks or so ago. This coming week we have 2 new users starting that we want to read and acknowledge […]
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If an employee is added to two different Groups assigned to one document – will they receive duplicate reading tasks? If a person is a member of two (or more) groups assigned to one document – they will be allocated a task for each! This is great because it’s good for compliance information as it […]
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Cannot add specified assembly to the global assembly cache during upgradeDuring an upgrade of DocRead it is possible you will receive this error : “Cannot add specified assembly to the global assembly cache“. This error occurs because one or more of the DocRead assemblies are in being used. This will either be because a timer […]
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How to migrate DocRead from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013If you are considering migrating your SharePoint Farm to SharePoint 2013 (from SharePoint 2010) then please read through this article for steps on how to achieve this. Before proceeding, it’s important that you read ‘migrating between editions‘ to understand how this effects your licensing. Preparing your SharePoint 2013 […]
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How does the Notification Scheduler work?The Notification Scheduler has 3 jobs responsible for sending emails: New Tasks Job – Responsible for sending emails for new reading tasks – This job, by default, runs once per hour every Overdue Tasks Job – Responsible for sending emails for overdue tasks – This job runs by default once […]
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When adding a group or audience to a document why is a new version of a document created?When you add (or update) the Readership Audience for a specific document with a SharePoint Group or Audience you will create a new version of the document when it is saved. We have designed DocRead this way because we found that […]
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