Enable a Library for Read and Understood

  1. click Site Contents then click the Read and Understood app within the SharePoint site

  2. from the App navigation menu, click Enable Libraries

    If you do not see the 'Enable Library' menu option, click 'Site Administration' and add your account into the 'Set Library Default Permissions' field.

  3. The add-in will display a list of Libraries in the current site, including sub-sites. Expand the sub-sites to view libraries within the sub-site. Click the library you wish to enable for Read and Understood.

    Note: Libraries in Red have already been enabled, those in purple are yet to be enabled.

  4. Having clicked the Library you wish to enable, this popup will appear:

    If the App has not been granted 'Full control access' you will see a warning. By enabling full control access, the App can create the Column Recipient Columns in the Site and add them to the Library being enabled.

  5. Click Enable this library button setting it to Yes.

  6. From the dropdown choose a Site.

  7. Having enabled a Library, you will be redirected to the Read and Understood Document Selector List.

A Document Selector is the mechanism by which we instruct the Read and Understood App with a set of rules, for example:

  1. set Acknowledge Recipient Adressees, alternatively, you can now define the recipients on documents using Column Recipient Addressing.

  2. how long users will have to Acknowledge Reading by

  3. whether reminder emails should be sent to those who have not acknowledged after an elapsed time, and

  4. who will receive the Summary Email of those that did or did not acknowledge reading 

Next Step - Define the Document Selector for the Enable Library

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