Compliance policies assigned with DocRead by our customers

Compliance policies assigned with DocRead by our customersDocRead for SharePoint is now being used to send out compliance policies by organizations all over the world to help ensure that staff and third parties are compliant with corporate policy. Here’s a list of some of the documents that customers have agreed to share with us. HR Policies Employee Handbook […]

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 […]

Policies and Procedures management in SharePoint – 6 ways we are going to help

Policies and Procedures management in SharePoint – 6 ways we are going to helpOver the last 2 years – whilst helping customers benefit from DocRead for SharePoint – we have discussed the management of policies and procedures (within SharePoint) on several occasions. We have found that some organizations are really struggling to understand how SharePoint can help them […]

Uninstalling DocRead from a site

This article will explain how to remove DocRead from a site on which it was previously activated. A DocRead licence limits the number of sites that you may activate the DocRead features on. You can review how many sites you are permitted to use (and how many you have available to use) by looking at the […]

DocRead in a Real World Intranet

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 […]

Regulatory Compliance – Workflow

Regulatory Compliance – WorkflowSharePoint Workflow allows a set of activities to process in either sequential or parallel, more often than not, one or more of those activities involves human intervention such as ‘approve a document’, or ‘complete a task’ and so on. This in itself goes a long way to ensure regulatory compliance because the right information is […]

Manage Policies and Procedures in SharePoint – Q&A

Manage Policies and Procedures in SharePoint – Q&ANo matter what size your organization, at some point you will need to ensure that certain employees read and acknowledge policies and procedure documents – for example company policies, risk assessments or employee manuals. Depending on your organization, industry and compliance regulations the list of documents can seem […]

Do you need one document library or many ?

Do you need one document library or many?Here is a list of all the things that you need to consider when deciding whether to maintain one SharePoint document library or to use many ? As you would imagine there is no correct answer, but hopefully this list allows you to make an informed decision.Metadata NavigationMetadata navigation […]

How to manage third-party risk with SharePoint

How to manage third-party risk with SharePointSharePoint has long been used as a tool to collaborate and communicate with external third-parties. It’s document management tools make it particularly well suited to co-working on many types of project. It’s flexible permissions, and self contained site structure model lends itself neatly to creating easy to use project […]

Using DocRead in a hybrid scenario

Using DocRead in a hybrid scenario DocRead needs to be installed into an on-premises version of SharePoint. It is possible for the same SharePoint Farm to have other sites running in SharePoint Online, but the site where DocRead is installed needs to be fully running on-premises. It is possible to create a “link” to a […]