How does DocRead differ from Workflow?DocRead for SharePoint is policy management software that integrates straight into SharePoint. It allows compliance professionals, HR professionals and business users to easily distribute and track policies and procedures. We often get asked – why do we need DocRead when we can use workflow? Here’s how DocRead differs from a workflow […]
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25+ Tools and Services to use in a SharePoint software companyAfter publishing ‘Running a SharePoint software company‘ I got a lot of thank you’s for mentioning Trello. (Apparently, not many had heard of it). Anyway, this got me thinking. Wouldn’t it be great to put together a list showing some of the tools and services […]
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How to configure user alerts in SharePoint 2016SharePoint Alerts are an important feature available in all the versions of SharePoint 2019, 2016 and 2013 as well as SharePoint Online. They are a great built-in mechanism for SharePoint that allows us to send out notifications (emails) to users and group of users based on the changes […]
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Code Sample : How to programmatically delete a web (and it’s child webs)If you have ever tried to delete a web either in code, or via the SharePoint GUI, then you will note that isn’t possible if the web has one or more child webs. (or grandchildren). To delete a web, you must first delete it’s […]
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A list of the best SharePoint discussion forums and groupsBoth new and experienced SharePoint developers, architects and end-users need to discuss problems and chew over ideas about SharePoint. There are quite a few major forums and groups out there, such as the SharePoint Community Group on Linked, but there are even more! So, to help […]
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How to Add Documents to a SharePoint Document LibraryDocRead for SharePoint is the only policy management software that integrates straight into SharePoint and allows compliance professionals to distribute and track their policies and procedures. When speaking with customers, I often need to supply them with quick “how to” guides that help remind them how to do some […]
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When adding a group or audience to a document why is a new version of a document created?When you add (or update) the Readership Audience for a specific document with a SharePoint Group or Audience you will create a new version of the document when it is saved. We have designed DocRead this way because we found that […]
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How to programmatically detect the version of SharePoint 2007 and 2010Quite often when developing code for DocRead we need to be able to discover what versions of SharePoint are on installed in the target platform. So being the kind souls we are – we have decided to share this helper library. The class is a […]
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DocRead and the SharePoint User Profile Service explainedA question just came in from one of our customers and it’s not the first time, so thought I would share my edited response. The question went a bit like this : “Do I need to have the SharePoint User Profile Service running to use DocRead?” When DocRead […]
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Debbie Irelands Top 10 tips for being more productive with SharePointDebbie Ireland carried out an awesome session yesterday, her tips are as follows : Encourage Collaboration – Use SharePoint for wikis and discussions. Organise you data – External Lists, Metadata, Views. Display Key Information – Web Parts – use external web parts (for things like FB, […]
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