Introduction

For customers with a trial version of Read and Understood or who have a paid plan can benefit from installing ‘Acknowledge’ the Read and Understood Teams and SharePoint App. The App, as shown below, will show a User all their active acknowledgement reading requests. From within the app they can open the acknowledgement page, which also contains an embedded copy of the file (Word, Excel, Video etc) that requires acknowledging.

1. Read and Understood Teams Personal Tab App

2. Link to open document in new browser tab

3. Sortable columns

4. Open Reading and Acknowledgement pane, see below:

Acknowledgement page including document

Adding the App for SharePoint and Teams

IMPORTANT: Before installing the Teams App you must have followed the instructions here to install and configure the Read and Understood for SharePoint App.

  1. Download the Read and Understood Teams app here
  2. In your 365 tenant, navigate to the Tenant Admin
  3. From the Admin Centers, click SharePoint
  4. From the navigation mention, click More features
  5. Locate 'Apps' and click 'Open'
  6. Click the link at the top of the page to go to 'classic experience'. By default the 'Apps for SharePoint' (often referred to as the App Catalog) option will be selected.
  7. Upload or drag and drop the acknowledge.sppkg to the App Catalog.

    8. Note: image used is a Microsoft stock image and is a guide to the process.

  8. Select the Acknowledge package file, click the Files tab and click Deploy.
  9. In the Popup window, ensure that the 'Make this solution available to all sites in the organization' option is selected, so that the web part can be used from the Microsoft Teams side.

    10. Note: image used is a Microsoft stock image and is a guide to the process.

  10. Select the Acknowledge package in the SharePoint tenant App Catalog and click the 'Sync to Teams' button in the Files tab.

    11. Note: image used is a Microsoft stock image and is a guide to the process.

    Confirm that you can see the status message on the top-right corner.

Adding the App to Teams

  1. Switch to Microsoft Teams and check the App Catalog status by selecting Apps from the left navigation
  2. Confirm that you can see Acknowledge app in the catalog:

    This can take few minutes due to caching.

  3. Click Open and then Pin the App

Adding the App to a SharePoint Page

  1. Open the SharePoint Page you wish to the add the App to. The page must be a modern SharePoint page as Classic SharePoint pages are not supported for modern Apps.
  2. Edit the Page and add an App
  3. Save the Page. It will then reload, and depending on the account you are logged in with it will show any acknowledgment requests you have.