Category Archives for "SharePoint"

When adding a group or audience to a document why is a new version of a document created?

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 […]

DocRead and the SharePoint User Profile Service explained

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 […]

How to migrate DocRead from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013

How to migrate DocRead from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013If you are considering migrating your SharePoint Farm to SharePoint 2013 (from SharePoint 2010) 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 licensing. Preparing your SharePoint 2013 […]

Security Management in SharePoint Groups, Permissions and Users

Security Management in SharePoint Groups, Permissions and UsersSharePoint GroupsSharePoint Groups are used to group SharePoint users together to make the administration and maintenance of security in SharePoint easier. By security we are specifically referring to the types of things a user needs can do on ‘things’ in SharePoint, such as :Document / List ItemLibrarySiteSite CollectionPermissionsTo […]

Code Sample : How to associate a SharePoint Workflow to a list programmatically

Code Sample : How to associate a SharePoint Workflow to a list programmaticallyThe following code sample illustrates how to associate a workflow to a list based on the workflow name.

SharePoint Lessons Learned – Clearly Define a Deployment Baseline (Part 1)

SharePoint Lessons Learned – Clearly Define a Deployment Baseline (Part 1)One of the major lessons that I’ve learned so far with SharePoint development is how important it is to clearly define your Deployment Baseline from very early stages in the development lifecycle. In part 1 of this blog post I will describe the concepts behind […]

How to share articles and resources with your staff using SharePoint

How to share articles and resources with your staff using SharePointA recent discussion came up on LinkedIn asking “How are you sharing articles or interesting online reads with your colleagues using SharePoint?” so I wanted to share my answer in the form of a blog post .. DocRead for SharePoint is now being used in […]

Code Sample : How to add a site column to a list

Code Sample : How to add a site column to a listThis code sample illustrates how to add an existing SharePoint site column (SPField) to a SharePoint list (SPList).

How to Create a New Document Library

How to Create a New Document LibraryThis post explains how to create a new Document Library in SharePoint 2010. It also explains the creation of 2 columns that can (optionally) be configured for use with DocRead. 1. Select ‘Site Actions’, then ‘View All Site Content’. 2. Click ‘Create’. 3. Under Document library input a name for […]

Upgrading SharePoint Content Types

Upgrading SharePoint Content TypesIntroduction Well it’s now Saturday afternoon and the family have been out shopping all day, so I have taken the opportunity to conduct some tests that I had been meaning to do for a long time now (geek I hear you say). I wanted to find specifically what happens if you want […]