How to migrate DocRead from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013

How to migrate DocRead from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013If you are considering migrating your SharePoint Farm to SharePoint 2013 (from SharePoint 2010) then please read through this article for steps on how to achieve this. Before proceeding, it’s important that you read ‘migrating between editions‘ to understand how this effects your licensing. Preparing your SharePoint 2013 […]

Security Management in SharePoint Groups, Permissions and Users

Security Management in SharePoint Groups, Permissions and UsersSharePoint GroupsSharePoint Groups are used to group SharePoint users together to make the administration and maintenance of security in SharePoint easier. By security we are specifically referring to the types of things a user needs can do on ‘things’ in SharePoint, such as :Document / List ItemLibrarySiteSite CollectionPermissionsTo […]

Code Sample : How to associate a SharePoint Workflow to a list programmatically

Code Sample : How to associate a SharePoint Workflow to a list programmaticallyThe following code sample illustrates how to associate a workflow to a list based on the workflow name.

SharePoint Lessons Learned – Clearly Define a Deployment Baseline (Part 1)

SharePoint Lessons Learned – Clearly Define a Deployment Baseline (Part 1)One of the major lessons that I’ve learned so far with SharePoint development is how important it is to clearly define your Deployment Baseline from very early stages in the development lifecycle. In part 1 of this blog post I will describe the concepts behind […]

How do I segregate tasks so that one department can’t see anothers ?

How do I segregate tasks so that one department can’t see anothers ?A customer recently asked .. “Is there any way to segregate out what is seen there by default…example…I give the HR Director security to “publish” documents, and also IT Director has that same ability….but that means that both will be able to see […]

Available Options for ensuring staff receive relevant training

Available Options for ensuring staff receive relevant trainingSharePoint is a fantastic repository for content. It so much better than what we had years ago where everything was stored on the file-system in a layer of folders, or in countless other systems. SharePoint has given an organization the ability to store (or surface) that content all […]

How to restore tasks to a site that’s been deactivated

How to restore tasks to a site that’s been deactivatedPlease Note : This Knowledgebase Article requires you to have recent backup’s of the DocRead database and the SharePoint content database. If you don’t have these, then this solution is not  possible. There are methods to restore tasks from receipts, but this is far more complicated […]

How to send overdue reminders repeatedly with DocRead

How to send overdue reminders repeatedly with DocReadThe DocRead notification scheduler is responsible for sending emails to users when tasks are assigned, completed or fall overdue. By default, after the DocRead Notification Scheduler is installed, when a reading task becomes overdue only 1 reminder email is sent. This article will illustrate how to change DocRead […]

How to share articles and resources with your staff using SharePoint

How to share articles and resources with your staff using SharePointA recent discussion came up on LinkedIn asking “How are you sharing articles or interesting online reads with your colleagues using SharePoint?” so I wanted to share my answer in the form of a blog post .. DocRead for SharePoint is now being used in […]

Code Sample : How to add a site column to a list

Code Sample : How to add a site column to a listThis code sample illustrates how to add an existing SharePoint site column (SPField) to a SharePoint list (SPList).