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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4 New Developer Features in SharePoint 2013Read about 4 new features introduced in SharePoint 2013 at last night’s launch event. Remote Event Receivers These are massively useful! By registering a remote end-point you can now call either a one-way or two-way event receiver. Visual Studio helps set this all up by creating the stub event code […]
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How to create an anonymous SharePoint survey By default a SharePoint Survey shows the user names of each responses in the results. However, it’s often a common requirement to be able to hide the identity of the respondent. This post will explain the steps to achieve this using the SharePoint Survey.Here’s how to create an […]
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How to create a SharePoint Survey in under 5 minutes This post will discuss how to create a Survey in SharePoint using out of the box functionality and nothing else! The example we will use is to create a survey that asks employees to answer questions about their previous training in the organization.Step 1: Ensure […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Keep Calm with SharePointI was feeling creative so had a bit of fun in todays lunch hour! I hope these put a smile on your face Keep calm and ResetIIS Keep calm and comply with DocRead Keep calm and ask for help with SharePoint I’m sure there are many more times when you may need […]
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