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For a specific SharePoint 2010 web site, is there a way to get a list of all publishing pages (Pages library) items that are checked out regardless of how many subfolders deep they are located? Thanks.

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try to use this query:

SPQuery q = new SPQuery();
q.ViewAttributes = "Scope=\"Recursive\""
q.Query = "<Where><Geq><FieldRef Name='CheckoutUser' LookupId='TRUE'/><Value Type='int'>0</Value></Geq></Where>";
var pages = pagesList.GetItems(q);
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Thanks, Alexander. A silly follow-up: Is this a PowerShell script or server-side ASP.NET code? And can this be done in a way such that we can check in the checked out pages? Thanks. – Alex C Apr 1 '12 at 8:34
this is a server side code.. but I do not see any reason why do you not to use this solution is PowerShell. I think that checked in files has null value in this filed, but I'm not sure. – Alexander Apr 1 '12 at 8:49
Thanks. Would this code go into an application page? – Alex C Apr 1 '12 at 9:00
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Why not? This code should work anyway when you have access to the SharePoint object model :) – Alexander Apr 1 '12 at 9:05
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What you get back using this method is the SPListItem for each page. For each of these you can get the listitem.File object and call CheckIn and Publish on that.<br />The code can go into a application page, console app, web part, ... what ever you want or be rewritten to PowerShell syntax – Per Jakobsen Apr 1 '12 at 9:24
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Another, non code way to get a list of all checked out items, is the following. This is a neat small tool for your content editors, too.

  1. go to http://website/Reports%20List/AllItems.aspx
  2. Add new item. At the same query as above (0)
  3. go to the sitemanager http:///_layouts/sitemanager.aspx
  4. Select your library with publishing pages in it.
  5. Select in "View" the name of the query that you added:

reports view with checked out items

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Didn't know you could do that! Thanks, Bas Lijten! Just tried it and worked beautifully :) – Alex C Apr 2 '12 at 5:16
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a lot of people don't know about it ;). It's one of those gems that I love! A custom view on a lib would have worked too, btw. – Bas Lijten Apr 2 '12 at 8:19

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