Features

Can practices view when a user has accessed a document shared via Collaborate?

To display the users that have viewed a file on New Collaborate, the SharePoint feature "SharePoint Viewers" will need to be enabled on the SharePoint site.

To enable the SharePoint Views feature:

  1. Open the Collaborate SharePoint site.

  2. Site on Settings - Site Contents.
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  3. In the top right-hand corner, click Site settings.
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  4. Under the heading Site Actions click Manage site features.

  5. Locate the feature SharePoint Viewers and click Activate.
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  6. The page will refresh, and will display Active next to SharePoint Viewers.

After a few minutes, hovering over a document will display the names of users who have viewed a document.

Refer to the Microsoft forum post Is there a feature to run a report to see who has viewed or accessed files on a SharePoint site?

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