How to configure a yearly reminder on a SharePoint documentSharePoint Information Management Policies are very useful for automatically performing actions on a document at some point in the future.For example, your organization may conform to ISO 9001 standards which require that documentation should be regularly reviewed and refreshed. It’s also extremely good practice to clean, […]
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What is Selenium and how can it help me test SharePoint?I don’t want to give a full blow account of what Selenium is because it’s very well documented at Selenium HQ, however, I do want to give a quick insight into how it can help you test the UI of a SharePoint application. Quick overview […]
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10 Steps for Implementing Successful SOPs with SharePointStandard Operation procedures (SOPs) are key in many industries to keeping a company moving and sometimes more importantly, compliant with the vast array of regulations, legislations, and Laws. Bespoke SOP Compliance software can be used to help you manage the process, however you can also manage your SOP’s […]
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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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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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