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How do I approve & publish a folder so that everything inside of it is published and live?

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Is this a coding or UI question? – Bernd Rickenberg Aug 11 '11 at 19:42
This is a UI question – Kirk Strobeck Aug 12 '11 at 14:37

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If you have SharePoint 2010 standard license you will get document sets. Document sets allow you to treat documents as one set. Similar to a folder. Whats nice about sets is you can than use a approval workflow to approve the complete set.

If you want to continue to use existing folders a workflow to approve all docs will be difficult. Perhaps others have ideas.

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How do I find a set? or create a set? It is 2010. – Kirk Strobeck Aug 6 '11 at 17:29
Document Sets are content types - provided the feature is enabled on your site, you should be able to add it as a content type to your list, and then create an item of type "Document Set". – Mike Redden Aug 11 '11 at 1:24
Can you please post a screencast? I'm still quite confused.. – Kirk Strobeck Aug 11 '11 at 15:12
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office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint-server-help/… and be sure to check links under See Also (right side of page) – Vedran Rasol Aug 11 '11 at 19:16
Is this a good idea? Document sets are supposed to be logical groupings of documents. OP is looking to approve all items in a folder, and all the items in that folder need not be related. – ashwnacharya Jan 17 '12 at 9:19
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You can manually run workflows against a folder, so you could create a custom workflow in Visual Studio and maybe even SPD with some help (...i.e. you'd probably need some 3rd party activities) to go iterate through the items in the folder the workflow was initiated against and approve/publish the files within it. Once deployed, you'd simply go to the ECB (context menu) for the folder and click Workflows or select the folder and click the Workflows button on the Ribbon.

Short of the Document Set idea put forth by Paul, I can't think of a no/low-code way to do this...and The document set approach is going to require a fair amount of work if you have a lot of existing content that would need to be moved from folders into document sets.

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You can use the Manage Content and Structure function in SharePoint (from site settings on all publishing sites) to select everything in a folder (mark all items in heading row) and publish it.

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What does mark all items in heading column mean? – Kirk Strobeck Jan 16 '12 at 21:53
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Sorry for being unclear. I meant the title (heading) row in the top of the grid being displayed. There is a check-box and when you select it all currently viewed items are being selected. – Bernd Rickenberg Jan 17 '12 at 9:07
but that doesn't answer my question at all.. – Kirk Strobeck Jan 17 '12 at 18:42
I mean the main question up above.. – Kirk Strobeck Jan 17 '12 at 18:45
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I understand your question in this way: You want to publish all items within a folder in a document library in an easy way. My reply to that is that you choose 'Manage Content and Structure' from site settings, click on the document library, click on the folder within the document library, select all the items in that folder (by clicking on the check-box in the title row) and than publish the items. – Bernd Rickenberg Jan 17 '12 at 18:59
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