In the context of SharePoint a document refers to a computer file, usually stored in a SharePoint library.
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How can you move a document with its version history to a new library?
Here's the scenario:
2 document libraries
Both contain multiple documents
The documents have multiple versions
When I copy a document from library A to Library B using the Content and Structure ...
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How can I move a document from one directory to another?
How can I move a document into a sub-folder and still maintain its version history from the old location in the new location?
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How do I check in a LOT of files all at once?
I put a lot of documentation on our SharePoint site, and it all lists as being Checked Out To me. How do I check all of those files in, in one shot?
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Cannot upload to a permissions-enabled document library even with RunWithElevatedPrivileges
In our WSS 3.0 application, we have a document library that has an elevated folder called "Approved". It has different permissions from the rest of the Document Library in order to prevent people from ...
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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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Deleting Old Versions in a Document Library
I have a Very Large List (~5000 documents) which has been chugging along for about a year. It has had versioning turned on, with major versions, keeping 2 old versions. We're totally restructuring ...
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How can I tell if a document is 'being published'?
I need to use the relevant event receiver to tell if a document is being published, is this possible? I will settle for has 'just been published' - i.e. I have no preference between itemupdating and ...
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SharePoint Document Library version restore not behaving as expected
I have some code which I am attempting to use to "rollback" a SharePoint document and it's metadata properties to a previous version using ootb version control and the SharePoint API. Here is a ...
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Is there a way to refire a retention policy after a document has been updated.
Scenario:
Retention policy set on "Expiry Date" column. Starts a workflow that notifies a user.
User updates the document (and expiry date)
Retention policy no longer fires when the new expiry ...
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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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Identifying duplicate documents
The search results webpart has a boolean property which can be used to configure whether "duplicate" results should be returned.
Looking at documents, when is a document A considered to be a ...
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Simple SQL Query Problem
When performing a FullTextSQLQuery against my SharePoint site's document library and retrieving field 'Path', I occasionally get the likes of "Forms/DispForm.aspx?ID=45" returned at the end of a ...
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How to document an entire sharepoint site?
I have been given the task of documenting my MOSS 2007 site. What is the best way to go about documenting an entire sharepoint site?
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“Document could not be checked out” permission problem?
I am facing problem with document check out in a SharePoint document library.
This is the message I am getting:
I'm using the out of the box document
library.
I have logged on as Admin
Document is ...
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Architecture: How do you store single pieces of information?
I am building a solution in which each Site Collection represents a single contained unit. The members of that unit will be using SharePoint to track information that describes their unit at the root ...
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Uploading files to SharePoint ECM solution via FTP
I am new to the SP 2010 Enterprise Content Management arena. I am investigating the limitations and benefits of SP ECM in respect to our organization. As opposed to creating a custom solution.
We ...
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MOSS 2007 BDC crawling documents content via Web Service
Imagine there is an external system that contains data that should be indexed by MOSS 2007 and incorporated into the search. That system exposes the data via Web Services.
It's possible to crawl that ...
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How can I link from one location to another?
I have a directory of files and accidentally got two versions of the same document under different names, how can I create a symbolic link from one to the other, so that there is only one file, yet ...
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Versioning and only seeing the latest major version
This is the good old question I just can't fathom there's no good solution for with SharePoint.
The business case is the following
One document library with several content types and 3000+ ...
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SharePoint 2010 Document ID Link Opens to Search Page [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
DocIdRedir.aspx sometimes redirects to search results instead of document preview
I have set up my document libraries (2 of them) to utilize the DocID attribute. I have ...
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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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Stop page refreshing when closing documents in SharePoint 2010
We had previously used the following to stop the page refreshing when closing a document. This works fine in Sharepoint 2007 but doesn't work in 2010. Does anyone know the SP 2010 equivalent
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Read-only document displays Check Out button in MS Word “Server Document” bar
Similar to the issue described here, I have a customer whose users see the "Check Out" button when opening Word 2007 documents directly from a document library with the checkin/out enabled.
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How to disable Adobe Reader message asking you to Check Out & Open the file?
When i open a PDF file from Sharepoint page, an Adobe Reader message pops up that reads -
Tip: WHen finished with the file, you can check it in using the "Sharepoint Server" option in the FIle Menu.
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Users unable to edit document properties
I have a document library on SP 2010 in which all users, including myself as the admin/owner, are unable to update properties of certain documents.
Documents were moved to this folder from another ...
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Grant permissions on documents in a document center based on the document ID
First of all let me start by saying that I'm not a professional SharePoint 2010 developer. I know some basics and read about how SharePoint is constructed and stuff, played with it a little, but it ...
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Opening a document in read-only mode using an external control
I have a .Net application that (amongst other things) provides a front end to a sharepoint document library. Users are able to open documents, and I use the Open Documents Control to do so ...
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SharePoint 2010 DocId for Non-Office Documents redirects to DispForm.aspx instead of Document [closed]
Right now we have a site collection with Document ID service enabled.
In a document library, we add a PDF or BMP files. Initially, the DocID column in the view links directly to the file. A few ...
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Sharepoint 2007 Document Library ViewSelector
Here I find myself again wondering why certain things work and some just don't.
I was wondering how I could display the "View Selector" on a document library webpart? The Site settings AllItems.aspx ...
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Where are uploaded files stored?
Very naive question here: when you upload to SharePoint, are the files stored in the file system or in SQL Server?
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What is slowing the opening of Office documents?
When opening an Office document the splashscreen gets stuck for about 30 seconds with the message "Contacting the server for information". How can I get more information about which information it is ...
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How can I upload a file to a Sharepoint Document Library using Silverlight and client web-services?
I'm using C# in Visual Studio with a Silverlight app. I want to upload a file to a document library, but none of the web-services here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms479390.aspx seem to ...
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Does Sharepoint offer live editing?
I'm hoping someone can alleviate my confusion.
I'm trying to find out if any Sharepoint versions offer something like Google Docs' live-editing capability. What I mean is: Two people can edit a ...
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Display list of file(s) within document library
Scenario : Sharepoint 2010 foundation site with a document library.
The library has many folders (and probably sub-folders in each folder). There are files in these folders/sub-folders.
I am looking ...
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Error on updating a document item
I have an issue with updating an item in ItemUpdated event.
Basically on ItemUpdated, I would like to reupdate that item by setting some properties, because it is a docx I have to do it in ...
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Excel document opening in browser (unsupported features)
I am using Sharepoint 2010 and when users click on an .xlsx document in a document library it says the following:
"The workbook cannot be opened because it contains the following features that are ...
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Change Document Library folder's Modified timestamp to latest timestamp inside
I have a Sharepoint 2010 Document Library with a range of subfolders and some files within each of them. The problem is, right now every subfolder has the same Modified timestamp, and I want each ...
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Making 'Add new document' to really add new document and not upload new document
Currently, I have my 'Add new document' (as shown in Illustration A) that keep on giving the following 'Upload document' page (as shown in Illustration B). My intention is to show a new InfoPath form ...
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SharePoint Content Archiving
i am just wondering how the SharePoint professional are planning their content Archiving.
I have about 2 Tb of the Data which includes MS documents,excel,PowerPoint, PDFs and other doc formats.
We ...
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Automatically fill in metadata on new document created from template
I have a custom button on my application page to open a new document from a document template, like you would do directly on a list. The code is similar to:
<a href="http://Site/test/documents" ...
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Water mark Sharepoint Documents?
How add Water Mark once upload document into the document Library? i checked TITUS is is working but how to achieve without 3rd party tools.
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Document versioning - different doc types
I have a document library with versioning enabled. Documents are now in some other system and I need to migrate them. The problem is thath different verions migth have diffrente file types (doc, docx, ...
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Can I change the file extension of a document that is already in a document library?
So I recently had a nice hitch in the SharePoint app I made for my client. We have a Document Library which is supposed to contain PDFs, converted from drawing files made in other programs. The test ...
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Create a new document from Sharepoint using column data and Quick Parts
I have a document library with a document template (docx) in which several Quick Parts are defined. The Quick Parts link to column data in the document library.
How do I create the document by ...
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Get document properties.Keys value
I'm iterating all lists in a site collection trying to get all metadata, their values and eventually count them. I'm not so far yet, but I'm stuck in getting the values from a documents (file) ...
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Restrict Folder Creation on a Document Library
We have SharePoint Owners group who will need to create folders on a particular document library and SharePoint Members group who should not be allowed to create folders.
Is there a way to accomplish ...
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How to enable bullet styles in Sharepoint 2010?
Intro: I'm running a publishing service using Sharepoint 2010 and recently tried to copy and paste contents from Word 2010 into an article.
Problem: After pasting the content, it did not retain the ...
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Is it possible to view internal document changes in SharePoint?
I am still using WSS
I am still fairly new to administering a SharePoint workspace. I have versioning turned on in my document libraries, but I had a request from a user asking if it was possible to ...
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Set “Overwrite existing file?” unchecked by default when uploading document
Due to Business requirement is it possible to set "Overwrite existing file?" unchecked by default when uploading document. This change would let users prompt when overwriting document, at the moment ...
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How to find out last read/unread Document in sharepoint Document Library?
I need to find out the last read\unread document in a document library, optionally filtering the search process to only include documents (read?/modified?/created?) within a speciefied date range.
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