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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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 […]
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SP24 is live and we will be there! At 2pm GMT today SP24 was made live and we are really proud to be part of the original team that both organized and built the SP24Conf.com site. For those that don’t know, SP24 is a global, 24-hour, online conference featuring 2 tracks about SharePoint. SP24 is exciting as […]
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SharePoint Best Practice Resources10 Best Practices For Building SharePoint Solutions An excellent article covering topics such as App Dev, Testing and Continuous Integration. Best Practices: Common Coding Issues When Using the SharePoint Object Model “Learn common issues encountered by developers who write custom code by using the SharePoint object model” http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb687949.aspx Best Practices: Using Disposable […]
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The IE10 nosniff issue in SharePoint 2013Last week was fun (and no this isn’t a post about not sneezing when using IE10)! We had two major issues still to overcome in DocRead for SharePoint 2013 before we could release it. So I decided to help out and take a look. BTW, if you are using […]
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