diff --git a/HISTORY.rst b/HISTORY.rst
index 3cab638bdf..337608e5b1 100644
--- a/HISTORY.rst
+++ b/HISTORY.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 3.3.1 (2019-XX-XX)
 ==================
 - Update Celery broker environment variable in the docker installer.
+- Add preparestatic command to documentation. GitLab issue #692.
+  Thanks to Christopher S. Meiklejohn (@cmeiklejohn2) for the report.
 
 3.3 (2019-12-03)
 ================
diff --git a/docs/chapters/development/code_structure.txt b/docs/chapters/development/code_structure.txt
index 201c9e5122..602c0a5be9 100644
--- a/docs/chapters/development/code_structure.txt
+++ b/docs/chapters/development/code_structure.txt
@@ -181,6 +181,7 @@ Steps to deploy a development version
     $ source venv/bin/activate
     $ pip install -r requirements.txt
     $ ./manage.py initialsetup
+    $ ./manage.py preparestatic
     $ ./manage.py runserver
 
 
diff --git a/docs/chapters/development/releases.txt b/docs/chapters/development/releases.txt
index 5ee50d8de2..04b17635b5 100644
--- a/docs/chapters/development/releases.txt
+++ b/docs/chapters/development/releases.txt
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ This is the sequence of step used to produce an installable package:
     $ source venv/bin/activate
     $ pip install <path of the Git repository>/dist/mayan-edms-x.y.z.tar.gz
     $ mayan-edms.py initialsetup
+    $ mayan-edms.py preparestatic
     $ mayan-edms.py runserver
 
 
@@ -39,6 +40,7 @@ Wheel package
     $ source venv/bin/activate
     $ pip install <path of the Git repository>/dist/mayan_edms-x.y.z-py2-none-any.whl
     $ mayan-edms.py initialsetup
+    $ mayan-edms.py preparestatic
     $ mayan-edms.py runserver