A SharePoint site collection is a hierarchical set of sites that can be managed together.

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How a Workflow can pass a list item through a site collection hierarchy

I have a site hierarchy like this: p c1 c2 I want to create a workflow to process a list item in c1 and under some conditions pass it to another list in c2 or as a workflow variable in p. ...
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Workflow pass list item through a site collection hierarchy

I have a site hierarchy like this: p c1 c2 I want to create a workflow, to process a list list item in c1 and under some conditions pass it to another list in c2. How it is possible in ...
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No Content type available on site collection, even though they appear on subsites

Accessing content types on sharepoint foundation 2010 using /_layouts/mngctype.aspx (site settings>site content types) and nothing appears. When I goto a subsite within the same site collection all ...
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How to allow submission to a list without acces to the list/site that contains it

I have a list in a Site Collection ("IT Site Collection") with a Submission form built using InfoPath. Only a few people have access to the "IT Site Collection" and I would like to keep it that way. ...
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Blocking some keywords (inappropriate words) in Sharepoint 2010 Blogs comments, posts title

I figured how to block inappropriate words from sharepoint blog posts through workflow. I want to do the same when those keywords appear in posts title or comments.
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Accessing list from Site collection A inside SitcollectionB

I have two site collections (A and B) belonging to the same content database. Inside site collection A there is a list "List1".. now i want to have the same list in the site collection B such - if ...
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Is a Site Column related to a web or site collection

just going through some slides for SharePoint 2010 Developer Certification slides and it says Site Columns are related to web, but I thought they are created on site collection level, can someone ...
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Event receiver on site collection creation

Are we able to code an event receiver on site collection creation? I have so custom site definitions, i do everything with features. So i need to activate a feature on site collection creation.
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NullReferenceException when creating new site collection

Running a SharePoint 2010 farm. Whenever I attempt to create a new site collection I get the following error "Object reference not set to instance of an object" which is generated from a generic ...
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Site collection with diferent url

I have a question regarding the adress of the site collection. I know the web application is sort of enterance point, which has ofcourse different urls, but is it possible to assing an url to site ...
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Get-SPSite Lists Our Root Site Collection Twice

On SharePoint 2010 Enterprise in a 2 Server Farm (Central Admin Server + Web Front End + SQL) SharePoint returns our Root site collections twice for each host header. Example: Get-SPSite -Limit all ...
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Get SPWeb by ID without Site Collection?

I have a list of SPWeb IDs and would like to open the associated SPWeb objects. However, I do not know in which Site Collection they are (I DO know that they are in the current Web Application ...
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Proper way to get all lists of a certain type from an entire site collection regardless of current location

I'm creating a webpart that gives the user a feed of any annoucement list in the entire site collection, so they can aggregate data to a central portal. I'm currently using the following, but can't ...
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What is the physical path of newly created SiteCollection

I am very new to SharePoint 2010. I have created a new site Collection named "MySiteCollection", I want to know where this "MySiteCollection" is created? What is the physical path?
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getting error while importing a site

I exported a site which have many sub sites, and then that sub sites have several sub sites, but getting following error if someone got any idea about it. [16/07/2012 13:47:20]: FatalError: ...
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Getting Web Template using Configuration ID

I am able to get Web template by checking its ID, but we have ten's of web configurations within a web template so in short we have loads of web template id's with different configurations and Title. ...
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SharePoint 2010 Javascript Client Object Model cross site collections?

I've read some unofficial things online that using the Javascript client object model to retrieve content from other site collections is not allowed due to prevent the equivalent of "cross site ...
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Create new site from dropdown with webtemplates

I am newbee Sharepoint developer, so forgive me if this is a silly question. I want to create subsites on a sitecollection. I have by code limited the available webtemplates for the subsites to two ...
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why “Site Action” is hidden for Site Collection Home Page

I am a member of Owner group and if I go to any sub site of this site collection I can see tab "site actions" but I can't find it on site collection home page even tho I can go to settings using ...
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Custom Web Part to get all Reminders for SPUser from Project server

It's been tough finding good material on Project Server/SharePoint integration from a development standpoint. What I'd like to do is create a web part that can be deployed to any sharepoint site, ...
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Cannot delete orphaned Sharepoint 2007 site

I have a site collection that is listed in Central Admin > Application Management > Site Collection list. When I click on the link there, no details are shown on the right hand side. The site ...
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two site collections, but groups only available in the first

I recently created a second site collection 'within' my first/root site collection. i.e. My primary site collection is found at: http://mysite.com and the second one is at: ...
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Site Collections <target user> is a member of

There is already a webpart for this but it shows subsites etc, which is not the requirement. What I need is a webpart that will list the Site collections a target user is a member of, and it must be ...
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MySite Title always changes to Site Collection admin display name

I have been struggling with an issue for a while now. Our customer had the requirements to have a central account to be set as site collection administrator for each mysite. This means that, upon ...
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Copy workflow between sites and site collections

I have been tasked with setting up various SharePoint 2010 sites for my company, and am a little stuck when it comes to workflows. I have several Site Collections all under the same root Site ...
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Does Backup / Restore of a root site collection url include other site collection contents

I have a question regarding multiple site collections in a single web application. Take the following structure; http://www.site.com (Root site collection) http://www.site.com/sites/subsiteA (First ...
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I Just Wonder Why I Can't Login to a Site Collection Using a Domain Account

I use a domain account to login to a site collection, but I get failure. I have tried to fix this by disabling loopback. When I create a new site collection under a new web app it works. Even so, I ...
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All site Content redirecting to root

For some odd reason I have a user that when the person clicks on All site content on a sub-site it goes to root. The user has Internet Explorer 9 and doesn't seem to be affecting the other users. The ...
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Recommended Site Collection Size and Recycle Bin Setting

I'm working in the SharePoint Online - Dedicated environment. Based on some documentation that I have read concerning limitations of Web Applications, Content Database sizes I've gathered the ...
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Host Named Site Collections with own Content DB, and problems (Top Nav Bar, and force to log on always)

This is the scenario: I. All Site Collections have thier own Content Database II. Site Collection A is Root Site Collection (created directly under Web Application = has exact same url as Web ...
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Setting up RBS for 2nd Site Collection

Few days ago I follow Microsoft's article (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee663474.aspx) on Setting up RBS for SP2010. It's all working fine for the Sales Site collection. Now, Legal ...
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Migrate SP2010 Site Collection from one farm to another (but RBS is enabled on the source Site collection)

How to migrate SP2010 Site Collection from one farm to another (but RBS is enabled on the source Site collection)? I tried regular steps on moving site collections between farm but that did not ...
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Is there a way to move files with the SP Object model in MOSS whilst retaining meta data?

Is there a way in SharePoint 2007 to move a file from one document library to another, in the same site collection programatically? I made this post about this on StackOverflow, with a bounty not too ...
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How can we achieve a sliding expiration for site confirmation and deletion?

We are running SharePoint 2010 Enterprise and are not thrilled with how Site Confirmation and Deletion works out of the box and we are wondering what other firms are doing about it. For research, I ...
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CRM 2011 to SharePoint Document Management Settings - You do not have sufficient permissions to perform this operation

I have SharePoint 2010 and Dynamics CRM 2011 for which I am trying to create a Document Management site. I have installed the CRM list component in SharePoint and activated it from SharePoint Central ...
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Corrupted site collections

I ran a stsadm -o enumsites and received 2 error messages in the output. It generates the error: The system cannot find the path specified. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070003). I know the URL of ...
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Getting Web Template Not Found error while importing

I am importing a exported site with several sub-sites to a new Site Collection of its Own but getting following error Start Time: 8/9/2012 9:32:31 AM. Progress: Initializing Import. ...
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how to Find Template Name that has been used while creating a new Site Collection

I have like tens of custom Site definitions, so when I try to create a new site collection I select a template name, let say "ABCD 2020 DEVELOPMENT ISSUE SOLVED" and create a new site based on this ...
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Display a list of subsites?

Is it possible to display a clickable, self-updating list of subsites on the top-level site? Also, is it possible to further sort the list according to the subsite category? if it is, how can you ...
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Site Collections having hundred of top level Sites

Is it a good practice to have hundreds of Top level Sites within a Site Collection, or to have each site collection for each Top Level Site within SharePoint 2007. we recently planned to move Top ...
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What Permissions Are Needed To Delete User Profiles In A Site Collection?

To allow a user to be able to delete User Profiles for orphaned account cleanup, I’ve added a user to the Farm Administrators group in SharePoint Central Administration and added them the Site Owners ...
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Site Features in Sub Webs Confusion

Very Basic but confusing question. I see we have three types of features, Web Application Features Site Collection Features Site Features Now I know that Web application features belong to web ...
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Cross Site Collection Navigation

We are using SharePoint for our Intranet. We will have a site collection for the Intranet. Then a site collection for each department in the business. I.E. HR, IT, Finance. We are creating a custom ...
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how to find Imported web

I exported a web from a site collection and imported it to a newly created site collection but when I try to access it, I get 404. My new site collection is, https://2020.develop.com/custs/newsiteco ...
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Advanced Search button, Create Page, Modify Pages Library Setting are missing from one SharePoint Site Collection

In my Share Point 2007 server farm there is more than 150+ site Collections are created but in one SharePoint Site Collection there is some problem from this evening: Advanced Search button is ...
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Get all webs with certain property value

If I have a certain number of webs within my site collection, and those web have set some property, eg. web.Properties["foo"] = "bar". I'd like to get list of all the webs which have property foo set ...
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Backup Restore SharePOint Site Collection

I have about 20 site collections in a web application and i want to restore those into a new web application . Can some one suggest me whats the best approach to do this .. I have tried the following ...
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Sharepoint Application and seperate site collection

We have one site collection with several departmental sites within. The DB is approx 60G at the moment. Using SP2010 sp1. I'm now adding an application which consists of several tasks and several ...
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cant find webapplication scoped feature anywhere

I developed a Custom Timer Job Feature using WSP Builder but for some reason I am not able to find it so that I can activate it. I know I can activate it using stsadm but why cant I find it in Site ...
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I am moving a site collection from one farm to another

I have been working on this for a few weeks now. I have tried many things but just can seem to get things to work correctly. I am trying to move a site collection from one farm to another. The source ...