How does DocRead differ from Workflow?

How does DocRead differ from Workflow?DocRead for SharePoint is the only policy management software that integrates straight into SharePoint and allows compliance professionals to distribute and track their policies and procedures. We often get asked – why do we need DocRead when we can do it in a workflow? Here’s how DocRead differs from a workflow engine […]

Why is DocRead different from competing software?

Why is DocRead different from competing software?We are very often asked how DocRead differs from its competitors. Here’s a recent response we gave (slightly tweaked to protect the identity of the requestor!): Great question! Although we have a few competitors in the same area of ‘compliance’ – as far as we know – we don’t have […]

RN01: DocRead for SharePoint V1.0 (build 11025.2)

​RN01: DocRead for SharePoint V1.0 (build 11025.2)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.25th October 2011 A new version of DocRead was launched today to fix […]

SharePoint Governance “Switches” by Scope

SharePoint Governance “Switches” by ScopeWas in a great SharePoint Governance Session by Dan Holme at the SharePoint conference last week. Off the back of his session I thought it would be a great idea to show all of the switches that can be set by scope all in one big A3 diagram. Hence, feel free […]

Debbie Irelands Top 10 tips for being more productive with SharePoint

Debbie Irelands Top 10 tips for being more productive with SharePointDebbie Ireland carried out an awesome session yesterday, her tips are as follows : Encourage Collaboration – Use SharePoint for wikis and discussions. Organise you data – External Lists, Metadata, Views. Display Key Information – Web Parts – use external web parts (for things like FB, […]

Planning for the Lifecycle of Your SharePoint 2010 Website – in 2 minutes

Planning for the Lifecycle of Your SharePoint 2010 Website – in 2 minutesHad the pleasure of attending this Level 200 session at the SharePoint Conference yesterday and here’s the take home points : How to measure success when implementing a SharePoint Site : conversion rates page views per second number of visitors total time on the […]

Upgrading SharePoint Content Types

Upgrading SharePoint Content TypesIntroduction Well it’s now Saturday afternoon and the family have been out shopping all day, so I have taken the opportunity to conduct some tests that I had been meaning to do for a long time now (geek I hear you say). I wanted to find specifically what happens if you want […]

Building an MSI in Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010

Building an MSI in Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010Here’s my rig: I am running a Windows 2008 Enterprise Server with SharePoint 2007 64 bit and Visual Studio 2008. I have been trying to create an MSI (using VS), that installs Action Server on a SharePoint 64 bit platform. My main problem arrives when the installer attempts to […]

What exactly is SAF and why would I need it ? (FAQ) ?

What exactly is SAF and why would I need it ? (FAQ) ?For those out there that are a little curious as to whether SAF is any use to your organisation, please read this FAQ. What is SAF ? SAF is free to use. SAF is the “SharePoint Action Framework”, it was built by myself […]

Content Migration using SAF

Content Migration using SAFSAF contains 6 ready-to-use Actions that allow the Exporting and Importing of : – List Items – Lists – Webs The 3 pairs of Actions that allow you to do this, are namely : – ExportListItem & ImportListItem – ExportList & ImportList – ExportWeb & ImportWeb The actions are listed as pairs […]