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Checked Out documents can't be found on local drives
I'm using Foundation 2010 and when I checkout various documents they won't save on my computer. I've tried to play around with the Office offline editing options and the Sharepoint Draft file location ...
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How could this happen? Records declared without checked out user
I have a bunch of records that exist on my sharepoint site that have somehow become records without being checked out to a user....
Any idea how that could be possible? I was under the impression ...
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What is the difference? (Checked out files)
I am in the process of writing a powershell script to work with checked out files and I stumpled on this article: Find All Checked Out Files
My question is what is the difference between the two ...
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Infopath forms get checked out and locked on Form Library when any entry is checked out
I have been struggling with this one for a while.
We have a Form Library, where a user will enter data into a form and it gets stored. When changes to that entry need to be made, we require a ...
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Implement check-in check-out on list items?
I want to implement check-in/check-out functionality on a list in sharepoint 2010.
What I want is, when a person is updating a list item, no one else shuld be able to edit that particular item and ...
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Checkout file returned by sharepoint does not really exist
I have the following code that returns me a list of checkout files in a document library.
private static void IdentifyCheckedOutFilesForRequest(SPListItem listItem, SPDocumentLibrary lib, ...
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checking out from MS word / file missing in local drafts folder
If I check out a document in the document library, I get the option to use the local drafts folder while working on the document. However, it looks like there is no option to use the local drafts ...
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Sharepoint Issues with Checking Out Documents
We have a unique problem, We have several of our users that can check out signed in documents, although they are in the same permission group as other users.
The link that you use to check out the ...
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CheckOutFile() raises SoapException: “Your changes conflict with those made concurrently by another user.”
I'm trying to check out a file using the Lists web service. Here is my code:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using Soap = ...
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CheckedOutFiles return zero files but there are some files checked out
I've defined a Document Library named "Sales" on Sharepoint 2010. And I use the following code fragment to add all names who have checked out a file to a listbox:
lstCheckedOut.Items.Clear();
var ...
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Can't check documents back in from drafts folder? SP2010
If someone checks out a document to their local drafts folder, edits the document then tries to check the document back in via the menu of the office app (word), SP GUI, or closing the app that ...
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Unable to check-out an excel sheet from a document library in SharePoint 2010 Standard
I have a document library under my SharePoint 2010 Standard site. We are uploading Excel files to this document library to be updated by multiple users (Using Check-in/Check-out). We are using IE9 as ...
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Document library forces check-in upon adding custom lookup column
SharePoint 2007 Team Site
Add a Document Library with the Word 2003 template
Add a new item, save, close document, no problems
Add a (required) custom lookup field to the document library
Add a new ...
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Check out issues after migration
We've migrated a MOSS 2007 Site Collection into SP2010 as a Site Collection under a tenant in a multi-tenancy set up. This migrated SC gives an error on checkout through the UI that states that the ...
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How to unlock a SPFile.SPCheckedOutStatus.ShortTerm lock on a ListItem on both Sharepoint 2007 and 2010
How can a site administrator remove a short term lock on a SPListItem.SPFile object? This happens when a user opens a Office document for editing from a list without doing a checkout. If the user does ...
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Remotely & Programmatically check document in and out
Here's the situation:
We have a number of Excel based tools that are checked into a SharePoint document library. I want a program that will allow me to check out one to many tools, perform ...
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Force “Minor check in” when (instead of) “Major check in” occurs
I am playing around with SPItemEventProperties and it looks like it's little bit messed up (or I am totally missing the point).
Here is what I am trying to do. When a user do a "Major check in" I ...
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What is the specific benefit of requiring check out in order to edit?
Just today I decided to try something that I was certain would go terribly wrong: In the Versioning Settings of one of my document libraries I set the Require Check Out option to "No" but left ...
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The file “[file name]” is checked out or locked for editing even though no one has it open
I get the following error when I try to check out a document from a document library in SharePoint that has been recently edited:
The file "[file name]" is checked out or locked for editing by
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Edit Page not disabled when a page is checked out
I have a bunch of publishing sites upgraded from SharePoint 2007 to 2010 and our users have noticed an interesting difference. Not sure if it's related to our environment or a bug in 2010.
Basically ...
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limit to number of times you can checkin/checkout a document
Is there a limit to how many times a file in SP2010 can be checkedin and checkedout assuming the file size is small and we have no problem of space in the database. Pointers to any documentation with ...
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SharePoint 2003: List all checked-out documents
I'm in a process where I'm copying documents from a SharePoint 2003-site to a new 2007 site. The problem is that documents that are checked out on the 2003-site are not copied in their newest version ...
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Get list of all publishing pages checked out
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? ...
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How to deal with versioning files that are not types recognized by sharepoint
We store files in sharepoint that are not office documents (PDFs, Quickbooks files, that kind of thing). I would like to be able to check them out, modify them, and upload a new version, check in and ...
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Can an admin check in publishing pages for other users?
I know that those with Full Control can override a checkout by another user (which causes the user's changes to be lost), but can the Full Control users also check in those publishing pages on a ...
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Get the check out file based on users Name
My environment is SharePoint 2007.
I have write a Power shell script to get the file names and checked out by username and their email id. I am successfully able to get these details.
Now I want to ...
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Error discarding checkout when 'Use my Local Draft folder' is checked
I am working on a .docx file and check it out, use local drafts folder then discard checkout from the ribbon.
This causes this error "The system cannot find the file specified. (Exception from ...
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Checked Out file is not appearing inside “SharePoint Drafts” folder?
I have SPS 2010 intranet site that has 1200+ users, and so many document libraries and folders. The farm is actually contains only one server and there is no any Alternate Access Mapping configured ...
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How could I know the exact reason behind Check In/Check Out failure?
I am an iOS developer and implementing SharePoint integration in iPhone through one of my application. From the API information I got that there are 3 APIs related to Check In/Check Out/Undo Check Out ...
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Best Practice to handle items modification in SharePoint 2007
From my understanding, there is no checkout function inside a SharePoint 2007 List.
So, what is the best practice that SharePoint Professionals and Expert do to make sure that a item of a SharePoint ...
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When does SharePoint check out files when “Require documents to be checked out before they can be edited?” set to Yes?
I have a document library in SharePoint 2010 to which a user is uploading spreadsheets via a custom web part.
These spreadsheets are later processed by another custom web part and updated. A user ...
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sharepoint document library issue in document check in - check out
We are using sharepoint 2007.
I have created new document library and added some documents.
When I checked out any document,it throws following error message
"This document could not be done checked ...
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Using the Web Services to determine if a user has a document checked out
(Note I need a solution for this that works on 2007 and 2010)
We have a desktop application that we are adding Sharepoint Check in and out functionality to using the Web Services.
One issue we are ...
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SharePoint 2007 - Checkout File in Document Library File Not Found
I am trying to checkout a file that exists in my document library.Both are uploaded manually. Whenever I click on checkout, i get the error
File Not Found. at ...
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SharePoint Designer 2010 Overriding Default Editor For Checked-Out Files
I've set up an override CSS file and it's sitting in a Site Asset library.
When I view the file via SharePoint, it opens in my system default CSS editor - being my text editor of choice. This app is ...
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SharePoint Doc Library won't check out docs for editing
This issue has me stumped; any idea would be appreciated. This is relating to SharePoint 2010 and MS Word 2010.
Situation: Doc library in SharePoint is using custom content types and has several ...
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SharePoint 2007 - Remind user of check-out documents
May I know if it is possible to remind user who have check-out a document for a period of time, to check in their document? (I notice that sometime user do forget to check-in their documents, so was ...
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What happen to Checkout document during a PC crash?
What will happen to a document that was check-out from a document library in SharePoint 2007 when the client computer crash? (e.g. Is the check-out forever lost? Is there a need to check-out the ...
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Office Web Apps error with checkout required
I have office web apps installed , everything works fine unless checkout is required on a document library, then I receive the error
"An error occured while opening this document. To edit this ...
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File remains checked out after closing without making changes
If I open a file for editing using the dropdown menu and selecting "Edit in " and then immediately close that file without making any changes or saving it, SharePoint does not prompt me to check that ...
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Changing file icon images
I'd like to accomplish two things:
I want to change the color on the "checked out" arrow from green to red to increase visibility.
I'd like to know how to modify the icons associated with different ...
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How to force check out on SharePoint search results?
When get search results with documents and I click on it to edit they are not checked out. Despite the fact that I activated check-in/check-out in the DL where the document is located. How can I force ...
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Master Page checked in and approved (as a major version) yet I'm still the only person that can see it
Topic pretty much says it all. I've checked in a new major version of the master page and approved it, but I'm still the only person who can see this page.
What am I missing here?
This is a ...
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Cannot open document for editing in Sharepoint (MOSS 2007)
I am experiencing a frustrating issue when I try to check out a document for editing in one of our Sharepoint sites (running MOSS 2007, Office 2010, IE9, Win 7 32 bit SP1), when I try to open the ...
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Cannot check out documents anymore
Our WSS3 document libraries no longer prompt to check out. I've confirmed check out is required for editing, and I've tried a new library. We're getting the same results. I also check the ...
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How to get checked out SPListItem for current user by file name using CAML query?
I use SharePoint 2010 RTM and now I'm trying to get SPListItem, which was checked out by current user, using code like this:
query.Query = "<OrderBy>" +
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Is it possible to Check-in and Check-out the current form from the InfoPath browser editor?
A coworker has been tasked with adding check-in and check-out functionality from within an InfoPath 2010 form. Is this possible?
This is a typical use case:
User is browsing a SharePoint Form ...
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Determine Publishing Page check-in/publish status programmatically
Is there a way to determine the check-in/publish status of a Publishing Page programmatically?
For example to determine
whether the page is checked out (and to whom),
whether the page has a ...
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Large file won't allow checkin, claims to be checked out to the current user
A out of the box library with versioning on and checkout required. The files that show the issue are Word and PowerPoint. All of these files are larger than our average files and run about 5 to 10MB
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Page is checked out by another user. How can I force check-in or discard?
A page has been checked out by someone who I am not able to contact. I need to update the page but cannot check it out until the current check-out is finished.
How can I force the current check-out ...
