Category Archives for "SharePoint"

Regulatory Compliance – Workflow

Regulatory Compliance – WorkflowSharePoint Workflow allows a set of activities to process in either sequential or parallel, more often than not, one or more of those activities involves human intervention such as ‘approve a document’, or ‘complete a task’ and so on. This in itself goes a long way to ensure regulatory compliance because the right information is […]

Continue reading

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 […]

Continue reading

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 […]

Continue reading

Regulatory Compliance – Auditing

Regulatory Compliance – Auditing The ability to verify and follow through a series of events to prove compliance (or not!) is essential. Historical records detailing who, what and how an event occurred are required by most regulatory bodies. Although the word ‘Audit’ sometimes sends a shiver down many a hardened business professionals’ back, immense comfort […]

Continue reading

UI Testing SharePoint

UI Testing SharePointAs part of an on-going series of ‘Testing SharePoint‘ we intend to share some of what we have learnt when trying to automate the testing of a SharePoint add-on called DocRead. These posts will specifically cover functional and integration testing – not unit testing (which is worth a whole conversation on it’s own). To get […]

Continue reading