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 […]

Linking a SharePoint Survey to a document

Linking a SharePoint Survey to a document If you have created a survey, quiz or questionnaire using DocSurvey for SharePoint and want to link it to a specific document then you can easily achieve this by following these simple steps. Different versions of SharePoint have different requirements, so scroll down the page to find the ones you […]

How to get user feedback on a document stored in SharePoint

How to get user feedback on a document stored in SharePoint If you have ever written a document, saved it to SharePoint and then needed certain people on your team to review it and provide comprehensive feedback, then please read on. This post will illustrate just how easy it is to do this using nothing […]

Word experienced an error when trying to open the file – from Office 365 or SharePoint

Word experienced an error when trying to open the file – from Office 365 or SharePointIf you receive the ‘Word experienced an error when trying to open the file’ (as below), it’s highly likely you are running Office 2010 in protected mode. How to solve this issue? There 2 ways that I know of detailing […]