Create a Reporting Hierarchy in Power BI Creating hierarchies in your Power BI data provides opportunities to further enhance reporting capabilities. For instance, Power BI will automatically calculate a date hierarchy. This will allow you to drill down from annual data, to quarters, months and days. You can also create bespoke hierarchies within your data to […]
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The Effect of Reset Task on ReceiptsReset task can be really useful if you already have a policy assigned by DocRead to the relevant audience and simply need to update / refresh the policy and get everyone to re-acknowledge the new policy. Before we look at what changes when you reset a task, let’s take a […]
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How to Migrate DocRead from SharePoint 2016 to SharePoint 2019Note: The information in this post relates to DocRead for on-premises SharePoint only. If you are considering migrating your SharePoint 2016 Farm to SharePoint 2019 then please read through this article for steps on how to achieve this. Before proceeding, it’s important that you read ‘migrating between editions‘ […]
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How to update multiple documents in a SharePoint document library with PowerShellWe recently received a query for DocRead to see if it was possible to set the ‘Required Audience’ and ‘Acknowledgement Days’ to about 100 policies on mass (via a script). Hence, being one who is always up for a challenge, I loaded up PowerGUI and […]
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Configure SharePoint SP2019 to support SPFx applicationsThis post describes how to configure your on-premise SharePoint 2019 farm to allow you to deploy and run SPFx applications. The instructions below will take you through the steps required to install each pre-requisite. Depending on the status of your farm, you may already have some of the pre-requisites installed […]
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How to migrate DocRead from SharePoint 2013 to 2016At Collaboris, we strive to follow Microsoft’s lead when it comes to upgrading between product versions. We feel this allows us to provide the level of support that is of consistently high quality. This post explains how to migrate DocRead from SharePoint 2013 to 2019.The steps you need […]
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Troubleshooting Reading Tasks in DocReadNote: The information in this post relates to DocRead for on-premises SharePoint only. If you are wondering why you have no ‘Reading Tasks’ when you have assigned a ‘Required’ or ‘Recommended’ document to a group or audience of users this post will help you resolve and troubleshoot the most common reasons.Reading Tasks […]
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How to display a comment to users as they complete a reading assignment DocRead can be used to create specific tasks for users requesting that they read and acknowledge key documents. The tasks can relate to policies, procedures or other important information. DocRead is particularly useful where compliance with these documents is essential for legal […]
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DocRead includes a comprehensive, easy to use reporting suite to help you interrogate and understand the status of all reading tasks, descriptions of which can be found in the DocRead Administrators Guide in the Documentation Centre here. If you wish to perform additional queries on the DocRead database we have a SQL database view that […]
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Note: The information in this post relates to DocRead for on-premises SharePoint only. If you are considering migrating your SharePoint 2013 Farm to SharePoint 2016 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 DocRead and DocSurvey licensing.Preparing your […]
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