Avoid the SOP management Mistakes

Avoid the SOP Management MistakesOf course, in any work environment, when creating and updating Standard Operating Procedures,  there are numerous considerations; many ways to get it right and many ways to get it wrong. This blog is to highlight some of the most common areas people and teams fail in their SOP management.Not Using The Full […]

SharePoint Account Permissions and Security Settings

SharePoint Account Permissions and Security SettingsIf you ever need to understand what the WSS_WPG or WSS_ADMIN_WPG groups can and can’t do in SharePoint – look no further! The articles linked below outline their rights in great detail. It not only details what groups the various service accounts in SharePoint belong to, but also what permissions those […]

How to find out who has completed a SharePoint Survey

How to find out who has completed a SharePoint Survey If you would like to find out who has completed a survey you created with either SharePoint Survey or by using DocSurvey for SharePoint, then hopefully the instructions below will help you: Firstly, ensure you check the box as shown below when you create the survey. […]

Distributing and tracking your policies and procedures with DocRead and SharePoint

Distributing and tracking your policies and procedures with DocRead and SharePointAfter your policy has been created, reviewed and approved. It should be moved to a policies and procedures site within your main SharePoint Intranet and targeted to the relevant users with DocRead.  Target the policy to the relevant usersTo target your policy to the relevant […]

How to utilise audience targeting in SharePoint

How to utilise audience targeting in SharePointThis article will explain how to setup and configure audience targeting in SharePoint 2010. Before I get started with the guide, I’d like to mention that an Audience is a part of the User Profile Service Application. To manage a SharePoint Audience you will need to open Central Administration website Application Management—–> Manage […]

Policy and Procedures : Using SharePoint Search to find policies quickly

Policy and Procedures : Using SharePoint Search to find policies quicklyThis post is part of a series illustrating how SharePoint can help manage the life-cycle of a policy. In this post we explain how SharePoint search can meet the requirement below: “It should be possible to find a policy in seconds“. To view all of […]

How to add a web part to every users MySite in 5 minutes

How to add a web part to every users MySite in 5 minutesThis 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.MySite host […]

How to delete a SharePoint Survey in 4 steps

How to delete a SharePoint Survey in 4 stepsThis blog post will explain the steps needed to remove/delete a survey from SharePoint. It does not matter whether the survey was created in SharePoint or with DocSurvey, the steps required to remove it are the same. 1) Navigate to the site containing the survey and then […]

Code Sample : How to programmatically get an SPFile in SharePoint

Code Sample : How to programmatically get an SPFile in SharePointThis example illustrates how to develop a helper method to return an SPFile based on a Web, folder and filename.

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 […]