Category Archives for "SharePoint"

How to find out who has completed a SharePoint Survey

How to find out who has completed a SharePoint Survey If you would like to find out who has completed a survey you created with either SharePoint Survey or by using DocSurvey for SharePoint, then hopefully the instructions below will help you: Firstly, ensure you check the box as shown below when you create the survey. […]

How to utilise audience targeting in SharePoint

How to utilise audience targeting in SharePointThis article will explain how to setup and configure audience targeting in SharePoint 2010. Before I get started with the guide, I’d like to mention that an Audience is a part of the User Profile Service Application. To manage a SharePoint Audience you will need to open Central Administration website Application Management—–> Manage […]

Policy and Procedures : Using SharePoint Search to find policies quickly

Policy and Procedures : Using SharePoint Search to find policies quicklyThis post is part of a series illustrating how SharePoint can help manage the life-cycle of a policy. In this post we explain how SharePoint search can meet the requirement below: “It should be possible to find a policy in seconds“. To view all of […]

How to add a web part to every users MySite in 5 minutes

How to add a web part to every users MySite in 5 minutesThis post will outline how to add a web part to every users MySite. The web part we are going to add is the standard DocRead Reading Tasks web part, but this process can be applied to any web part in SharePoint.MySite host […]

How to delete a SharePoint Survey in 4 steps

How to delete a SharePoint Survey in 4 stepsThis blog post will explain the steps needed to remove/delete a survey from SharePoint. It does not matter whether the survey was created in SharePoint or with DocSurvey, the steps required to remove it are the same. 1) Navigate to the site containing the survey and then […]

Code Sample : How to programmatically get an SPFile in SharePoint

Code Sample : How to programmatically get an SPFile in SharePointThis example illustrates how to develop a helper method to return an SPFile based on a Web, folder and filename.

Word experienced an error when trying to open the file – from Office 365 or SharePoint

Word experienced an error when trying to open the file – from Office 365 or SharePointIf you receive the ‘Word experienced an error when trying to open the file’ (as below), it’s highly likely you are running Office 2010 in protected mode. How to solve this issue? There 2 ways that I know of detailing […]

How to configure a yearly reminder on a SharePoint document

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, […]

What is Selenium and how can it help me test SharePoint?

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 […]

How to migrate DocRead from SharePoint 2013 to SharePoint 2016

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 […]