Multiple Language Options Available in DocRead

Multiple Language Options Available in DocReadCurrent language options Currently our products only support English in that the DocRead screens and menus are written in English. The actual items / policies / documents you wish to assign to users can obviously be written in any language, however the user will currently receive instructions in English. We have […]

Regulatory Compliance – Auditing

Regulatory Compliance – Auditing The ability to verify and follow through a series of events to prove compliance (or not!) is essential. Historical records detailing who, what and how an event occurred are required by most regulatory bodies. Although the word ‘Audit’ sometimes sends a shiver down many a hardened business professionals’ back, immense comfort […]

How to disable DocRead Assigned Emails

How to disable DocRead Assigned EmailsDepending on your situation, you may need to disable assigned emails from being sent out with DocRead. This can be a for a few reasons such as : You are just starting with DocRead and have a large backlog of documents that need reading. To assign them all at once […]

UI Testing SharePoint

UI Testing SharePointAs part of an on-going series of ‘Testing SharePoint‘ we intend to share some of what we have learnt when trying to automate the testing of a SharePoint add-on called DocRead. These posts will specifically cover functional and integration testing – not unit testing (which is worth a whole conversation on it’s own). To get […]

What are your favourite SharePoint 2013 Features?

Private: What are your favourite SharePoint 2013 Features?SharePoint 2013 has shipped and it’s now main stream. We’d love to hear what your favourite 2013 features are, so please add them! Also vote up the killer ones and why not embed the list to see if we can make it one awesome resource! Favourite SharePoint 2013 features?

How does the Notification Scheduler work?

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 […]

How to maximise the impact of the My Reading List

How to maximise the impact of the My Reading ListDocRead offers several ways to manage your compliance requirements. Emails can be sent when a new task is issued to you. But probably the most helpful is the DocRead ‘My Reading Task’ web part. This can be placed on your organizations intranet site and customized to […]

An SP24 Adventure – My story

An SP24 Adventure – My story  On April 16th 2014, I was part of a team that ran the world’s largest virtual, SharePoint Conference known as SP24. This was one of the most enjoyable projects I have ever worked on, but also one of the most challenging. We built the platform on SharePoint 2013 Foundation and […]

3rd Party apps and services that we used to build SP24 on SharePoint

3rd Party apps and services that we used to build SP24 on SharePointThis post is part of a series of posts about the SP24 Virtual SharePoint Conference: An SP24 Adventure – The idea An SP24 Adventure – Putting it all together An SP24 Adventure – The big day An SP24 Adventure – After its all […]

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 […]