Introduction

Read and Understood Onboarding feature is for businesses that need to ensure new starters joining, that they are notified with acknowledgement requests to read critical documents for their role.

How does it work

By enabling the Read and Understood App with the necessary access to either SharePoint or Azure Active Directory Groups (security or 365 groups) the App can monitor for new users added to groups and send notifications. The Groups you choose to work with will be assigned in our Document Selectors using the To field.

Options for Sending Notifications

When this feature is enabled, we provide two options:

  1. New group members from midnight today, and

  2. All group members on first use

New group members from midnight today

When this option is selected Read and Understood will process the group overnight for the first time for onboarding but not send any acknowledgement requests to existing group members. After the midnight run, any new group members will be treated as an onboarded user and the notifications will be sent.

All group members on first use

This is particularly useful when first setting up Read and Understood and you don’t want to make a change to a document to trigger an acknowledgement notification. With this option selected all members of the group will be processed during the midnight run and notifications will be sent to all documents targeted by that reading category.

What if a user is a member of another group, will they receive duplicate acknowledgement requests?

No. When processing groups, we filter users out if they have already been asked to acknowledege that version of the document in SharePoint.

Can I use both SharePoint and AD Groups?

Yes. As long as the groups are defined in the To field of the document selector then you can use both.

Can I use nested groups in a single group?

No. Group recursion is not currently supported. We recommend that you define groups that contain the users and not other groups.

Can we get a reports?

Yes. Our Read and Understood Excel reports provide details of those groups defined and a percenantage of those users, within the group, that completed their acknowledgement request.