Document library is a list for storing documents
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CSS Files in _Layouts or Document Library?
There's been a lively conversation (such as it can be in 140 chars) lately about whether it is better to put CSS files on the disk in the _layouts folder or to store them in a Document Library in the ...
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How do I enable “Open in Explorer”?
I have full control over my SharePoint site. When I click on my document library and then click the "Library" tab on the ribbon, I see an option for "Open with Explorer" but it is disabled.
The ...
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Modification date gets updated when selecting/clicking a file
On our SharePoint site the modification date of files gets updated when it should not, when no changes to a file have been made.
I have found two ways to reproduce this error:
A document is opened ...
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Add huge number of folders
Is there any tips for programatically adding and managing the huge number of folders in document library?
In my scenario, a document library has 3 hierarchies and each hierarchies contains 50 - 100 ...
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Why doesn't clicking New Document save back to the document library?
I'm watching a course on SharePoint Foundation 2010 Fundamentals.
In it a document library is created a couple of columns are added, then when New Document is selected from the ribbon, Office opens ...
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Making Document Libraries visible to some users and not others
I have several document libraries that I would like to list on the front page but make visible to certain users only.
If I set it up this way:
-UserLib1, user1 has read permissions
-UserLib2, user2 ...
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How to restrict a document library to a specific file type (extension)?
I have a SharePoint intranet site where I need to allow users to upload certain documents. These documents need to be only PDF files for example.
What is the simplest way to restrict the document ...
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What are the client side requirements to enable the “upload multiple files” link?
What are the client side requirements to enable the "upload multiple files" link? I'm using WSS 3.0. Also using FBA, not sure if that matters. It "works on my machine", but not for some other ...
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“Incoming e-mail settings” hidden from custom document library
Very simple set-up:
Visual Studio --> Add New Item --> List Definition. Type: Document Library. Besides that - no changes. Deploy.
Result:
As you can see: No "configure incoming e-mail settings" ...
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How to traverse SharePoint Library in Client Object Model?
I have SharePoint Library and i want to traverse all folder and sub folder of it using client object model.
Can anybody have solution ?
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1answer
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How to enable the “From SharePoint” link when inserting a link in a blog post?
When I create a new post in a Blog website, I would like to insert documents by picking them directly from my SharePoint libraries.
Actually there is an option for that but it appears disabled even I ...
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1answer
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Create a Document Library Item base on a ContentType with JavaScript Object Model (JSOM)
I'm trying to create a new item in my Entreprise Wiki Pages Document Library. It's associated with a News Content type. I was able to retrieve the SP.List object (myList), the SP.ContentType object ...
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Show folders in document library that have a filter view
I am using SharePoint 2010
I have a document library with a view that Filter items only when a particular Column is true.
The problem now is that when I have a filter in my view the folders in my ...
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Filter out folders from a user alert against a list
I have created an alert for a user against a list (more specifically, a document library).
I want the user to be notified of all changes regarding list items (documents) and not any sub folders.
...
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Missing “Upload Multiple Documents” in SharePoint 2007
I'm using MOSS on the server and have Office Enterprise 2007 and IE9 on the client. In all libraries, I can only upload a single document at a time; the multiple document upload option is not ...
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Side-effects of 10,000+ Document Library Folders
In SharePoint 2007, are there any side effects to having 10,000+ folders in a document library?
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How to hide the _cts folder in all document libraries?
In one existing site collection all document libraries are suddenly showing the _cts folder.
Any idea how to fix it?
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1answer
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Fastest way for looping through a SPWebCollection
I've developed a console application for looping through all the webs inside my SharePoint 2010 site, but it's kind of slow, until the point that it throws OutOfMemory exception. This is the code I ...
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create link to “new item” form
I have a sharepoint docuemnt library and i'd like to create a link on my homepage that will launch a new item form associated to my list. Does anyone know what the url would be if my document library ...
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How to modify dropdown document template list visible when creating document library?
When creating a document library, and specifying the default document template, the dropdown list of templates out-of-the-box (OOB) includes 97-2003 format files at the top of the list. Users who do ...
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Javascript Client object model, rename folder
Hey am trying to rename a folder inside a Document library, right now i get my item and everything is good but when i try to rename it using set_item('title', 'NewFolderName') it crashes and unwinds ...
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Listing all checked out files
As a site administrator tool I have to list all checked out files in the site collection. Looking at the DB is looks like the tp_CheckoutUserId field in AllUserData might be a key to this query.
Is ...
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2answers
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How do I upload a document and set column values when doing so?
I am using the following code to download documents from SharePointand surface them to the user.
ClientContext clientContext = new ClientContext(ServerUrl);
clientContext.Credentials = cred;
...
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1answer
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Exception in SharePoint WebApplication
I have developed a asp.net web application in SharePoint 2010,which deals libraries.I have to redirect the user,so I implemented session state.When I run it I am getting the following exception.
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How to copy web part pages between document libraries?
I have a web part page "DocLib1.aspx" in document library "DobLib1" and it has a few web parts.
How can I take the same web part page and copy it to other document libraries? There are about 50+. The ...
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2answers
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Sending documents as e-mail attachments
We have document library where we store various types of documents (word, ppt, infopath templates etc..)
The requirement is to send them as e-mail attachments directly from SharePoint Document ...
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1answer
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Is there a way to make a site that shows the data from multiple libraries in 1 view?
At the company I am working with right now they have SharePoint 2010 and the current project has a lot of different libraries in different sites. Different users are responsible for adding documents ...
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Sharepoint 2010, Document Library, Key Filter - “Modified” field filtering is out by one day
We have a Sharepoint 2010 farm across 4 servers and added "modfied" as a Key Filter for metadata navigation. When I select to filter on a specific day I enter a date the filtered results are out by ...
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1answer
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Can't get OfficialFile.SubmitFile to work
I'm trying to write a literal SOAP call (I'm integrating from a remote non-windows machine) to submit a file which currently resides in the drop-off library of the site. I created a simple file, ...
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Actual modified date of a document
Is there someway to get the actual modified date of a file in a document library. Modified field has the modified date for the item and not the file so if one of the meta data of the file changes the ...
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2answers
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How to move items between folders Document List?
Is it possible to move documents between different folders in Document List?
EDIT: I mean possible for a sharepoint standard user, not an admin.
For example, suppose that my Document Library has two ...
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Best way to move files from SC to another SC?
What is the best way to move files from a staging site collection (document library with no content types or base content type) to a target site collection (with more structured document libraries ...
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1answer
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How do you change the slide master in a slide library using Sharepoint 2007 and Powerpoint 2007?
I'm using a slide library in sharepoint 2007 in combination with powerpoint 2007. When I want to create a new presentation by using a slide that is stored in sharepoint I get a little problem.
Copy ...
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1answer
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Tooltip showing latest pictures inside a Picture Library for SharePoint 2007
Inside a SharePoint Document List, I keep a few folders - Folder A, Folder B, Folder C.
Each folder have some pictures inside them.
May I know if there are any web part that can help me display at ...
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Document Library - show checked out date in UI
In a document library it is possible to show the "Checked Out To" field to determine who has a file checked out - is it possible to show when it was checked out so you can easily find 'Forgotten' ...
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Explorer view showing incorrect dates for document library files [closed]
We have a bit of a weird problem, and I am baffled.
Incorrect dates in windows explorer:
We map N: drives to document libraries, by using the following command:
net use n: ...
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SPItemEventReceiver ItemAdding - Differentiate between a file and a folder
I've setup a custom event receiver. The purpose of my event receiver is to stop people from uploading any file type except PDF's. Right now my code looks like this:
if ...
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Is it possible to have a single document referenced by two different document libraries?
Business Requirements:
My customer wants to be able to associate one document with multiple projects. E.g., a set of specifications for a piece of equipment that will be used in multiple projects. ...
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Download and delete documents using Powershell
I'm looking to build a Powershell script that does the following to all documents in a SharePoint 2010 document library:
Downloads the document to a network file share
Deletes the original document ...
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How do I create a new document in a document library according to a template in a workflow ?
I have a document library with a DOCX template file. I want to create DOCX file in this library in a workflow but I did not succeed.
Before, I created a workflow in Sharepoint Designer to create a ...
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Storing large files in SharePoint with users all over the world
Any recommendations for storing large files in SharePoint 2010 for the following requirements:
Mostly smaller files 10KB-20MB
Many larger files for example 20-500MB
Users in all parts of world need ...
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2answers
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Get all Files from sub folder of a certain content type
my problem is I have a document library with sub folders. Also the document library got more than one content type.
Is there a way to create a CAML or LINQ query to get all files of a certain content ...
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1answer
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how to programetically get the type (TemplateType) of a Library using the item url
Imagine if you have image url which is existing within a site collection in Sitecollectionimages library: testserver/Sitecollectionimages/image.jpg
How can I get the TemplateType (which kind of ...
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1answer
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powershell not finding shared document library?
There is a document library called "shared documents" in the site I type at the prompt when running this script. The script returns the titles of several document libraries, but not "shared ...
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How to target events to different types of document libraries?
I have the requirement for multiple document libraries. Each document library will contain the same types of document, images, office documents; however, when items are added to the library, a custom ...
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Is it better to use a Document Library to host files than to host using the file system?
I'm starting to develop Silverlight applications for SharePoint and have been advised to create a Document Library to store the executables.
I'm just wondering...
Are there any advantages in ...
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1answer
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Traverse through List of Documents using PowerShell
I am new to PowerShell and would like to achieve the following tasks on a SharePoint 2010 Document library:
1) Using PowerShell, how can I display the List of Documents in a simple Document Library. ...
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Index out of range, when opening folders in Shared Documents
Please see the latest edit at the bottom.
I have multiple sites, within the same Sharepoint site, that each have documents within the Shared Documents section of the site. The majority of these sites ...
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Cannot upload *.MAF file to SharePoint library
We're trying to upload an *.MAF file (Microsoft Access Form Shortcut) to a SharePoint 2010 library. Is there a way to change the restricted files to allow this file to be uploaded? Thanks.
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Make a folder in a document library read only without using security
I have a document library with about 25,000 folders in it, each folder represents a task in our task system and is used as a document repository for those tasks.
Of the 25,000 tasks about 22,000 are ...
