Why don’t we send DocRead e-mails using SharePoint ?All e-mails in DocRead are sent using the DocRead Notification Scheduler service (not using the email functionality that SharePoint offers). This means that the DocRead Notification Scheduler is a Windows Service that can run on a Windows Server that doesn’t require SharePoint. At the time we designed scheduler, we thought long […]
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DocRead for Recommended ReadingDocRead 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. One of the major uses for DocRead is it’s ability to help in compliance efforts by sending out ‘required‘ reading to a group of users. Once it’s been […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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DocRead in a Real World Intranet – Screenshots from this week’s WebinarsAs part of one of our recent webinars, we decided to put together a fictional SharePoint 2010 Intranet called “United Exports”. If you weren’t able to attend – this post gives a quick look at some of the screens we showed off. Please click on any […]
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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 […]
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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?
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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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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 […]
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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 […]
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