Benefits of using SharePoint to manage your policies and procedures

Benefits of using SharePoint to manage your policies and proceduresHere is a list of fifteen advantages SharePoint has over a non-SharePoint 3rd party solution when managing your policies and procedures.  Document ManagementManaging the life-cycle of a policy is a big challenge. Document Management is SharePoint’s biggest strength. Using in-built features such as version management, publishing […]

Why Policy Management Software in SharePoint?

Why Policy Management Software in SharePoint? As part of an ongoing series of posts illustrating how SharePoint can help manage the life-cycle of a policy, this post introduces at a high-level the features SharePoint has on offer. To view a list of the required features for a policy management system, please have a look at […]

How to start the default approval workflow programmatically

How to start the default approval workflow programmaticallyToday I was trying to find a way to programmatically create a publishing page and start the default approval workflow attached to the pages library. The reason that I had to programmatically start the workflow (instead of relying on SharePoint to automatically start it for me) was because […]

Code Sample : How to programmatically download all solutions (WSPs) in SharePoint

Code Sample : How to programmatically download all solutions (WSPs) in SharePointOnce a solution has been added to SharePoint, then there’s no apparent way to download it. Using the SharePoint object model we can easily download a wsp using the ‘SaveAs’ method. The C# code below illustrates how to download all of the solutions in the farm with just […]

Code Sample : How to programmatically send an email in SharePoint

Code Sample : How to programmatically send an email in SharePointIf your SharePoint farm has been configured to use an SMTP server, then it is possible to send an email in code using the SPUtility class. The c# code below illustrates how to send a mail and return an XML string outlining what was sent […]

How does DocRead differ from Workflow?

How does DocRead differ from Workflow?DocRead for SharePoint is policy management software that integrates straight into SharePoint. It allows compliance professionals, HR professionals and business users to easily distribute and track policies and procedures. We often get asked – why do we need DocRead when we can use workflow? Here’s how DocRead differs from a workflow […]

Ease the pain caused by policies requiring frequent reviews and revisions

Ease the pain caused by policies requiring frequent reviews and revisionsThis post will look at some of the problems faced when policies need frequent reviews. It will also consider when employees need to understand those revisions and be kept up to date with developments. If, like so many organizations today, you have a comprehensive library of […]

Which version of your SharePoint document is being read the most?

Which version of your SharePoint document is being read the most?DocRead for SharePoint is an extension to SharePoint. It allows you to request that a group of SharePoint users read and confirm that they have read a document and agree with the terms and conditions you set. DocSurvey for SharePoint takes this one step further […]

Stop Using Email as your Policy Management Software

STOP Using Email as your Policy Management SoftwareEvery company has its own policies and procedures that have to be shared with people in the organisation. In the past this was typically done by distributing paper copies. Since its introduction, e-mail has largely replaced the need for paper distribution, and using e-mail and file shares as […]

What happens when a user selects ‘Reset Tasks’ on a document?

What happens when a user selects ‘Reset Tasks’ on a document? Negative receipts are issued to all incomplete tasks to register the fact that a user did not had a chance to complete the task because it was reset. All tasks associated with the document are deleted (including completed tasks) New reading tasks are created and […]