Regulatory Compliance – Information Management Policies Information Management Policies in SharePoint in my experience, are not used that heavily, but are an extremely easy way to apply policies to your documents. They are accessible from ‘Library Settings’ and are configurable per content type. For example, this means that all ‘documents’ in the library will have the policy applied. […]
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How to Distribute a Training Video with DocRead for SharePointOK, so here’s the thing – you’ve created a fabulous training video informing staff how to avoid injuring themselves when lifting heavy objects and you now need to ensure that all relevant staff watch it and follow your guidance. Before proceeding, please read ‘How to add […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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1 Tweet from Destruction? – How’s your Social Media Policy?Why would I need one? What harm can be done on social media?Social media screw ups can have serious consequences! From a very quick search on the internet you will find they can trigger anything from loosing customers or market advantage… In November, Twitter CFO Anthony […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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DocRead uses the SharePoint API to get the list of users that have been assigned to a DocRead audience. Because of limitations with this API DocRead audiences can only contain individual windows users, SharePoint Groups, ASP.Net roles, standard Windows security groups and SharePoint audiences. Active Directory Universal security groups and distribution lists are not supported. […]
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Why is DocRead different from competing software? We are very often asked how DocRead differs from its competitors. Here’s a recent response we gave (slightly tweaked to protect the identity of the requestor!): Great question! Although we have a few competitors in the same area of ‘compliance’ – as far as we know – we don’t […]
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