Site is a set of related web pages containing content such as text, images, video, audio, etc. In SharePoint a site resides in a Site Collection.
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When should I Create a Subsite in SharePoint
Recently I got into a position where I need to see a trade off of creating a Subsite in SharePoint. I would like to know what are all the scenario that we need to create a new Sub Site and why ?
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Moving a site to a different site collection
I am looking for a C# script that will move a site with all permissions and content to another site collection. Google isn't helping me or maybe i dont know what exactly to look for.
e.g.
I have a ...
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Deleting a site content type in Sharepoint 2007
I'm trying to delete a custom content type that I've created, but I'm getting an error when I try to do so:
The content type is in use. at ...
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How does SharePoint render a page?
This is a noob question... I am trying to understand how site definitions, templates, etc. all work together when a SharePoint page is requested. I understand that site definitions are "base ...
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For what reasons would a site be excluded from a full crawl?
This is what I've checked so far:
The default page of the site is published
In site admin it is set to 'allow this site to appear in search results'
In site admin of the root site, it will search ...
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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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best way to store property of a site
I have a site called Exhibitions that contains many many subsites each of which is an individual exhibition (with pages, images etc). I would like to attach to each of these subsites a property which ...
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Best practices when creating Site to use as a template
I'm creating a site that I'll eventually use as a template to create other sites from it. The site will contain lists, workflows, user groups, content types etc etc.
I want to make lots of clones ...
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How to apply v4 master to sitemanager.aspx
We recently migrated from 2007 to 2010. However the Manage Site Content and Structure link which points to _layouts/sitemanager.aspx seems to have a look and feel of 2007. How can this be set to use ...
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Document Library that contains all Documents from subsites
I want to create a documentlibrary on the parent site of a bunch of subsites.
All those subsites have their own documents. I want the parent documentlibrary to
contain all those documents of the sub ...
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Site Logo URI adjustment
I uploaded my company's site logo successfully to my site and whenever I created sites under my site collection, the logo is inheriting successfully. But the problem is when I click the site logo from ...
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How to create programmatically a Site with a custom template?
I'm trying to create a site from my template...
[WebMethod]
public ResponseObject addGroup()//AddGroup addGroupObj)
{
try
{
string fullsite = ...
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Each Site I create I get 403 forbidden error
Everything was working perfectly and then one of my colleague made some changes and is on holidays now.
any site I create I get forbidden 403 error not sure why tho.
I looked at site permissions ...
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Why can the local administartor access a site collection?
I'm stumped by an access phenomenon because I am not sure how the permisssons for accessing a site collection work in this specific scenario:
Even though I shouln't be able to do so, I am accessing ...
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Create Web part programatically VS 2010
we are to create several web parts after a site is provisioned with WSP. I can either create wp from scratch on feature action. Or save a set of WP in gallery and create an instance out of that when ...
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“Cannot find this file” error when deploying from Visual Studio 2010
I'm getting an error in Visual Studio 2010 after pressing F5 to Debug:
Error occurred in deployment step 'Add
Solution': Error: Cannot find this
file specified in the manifest file:
...
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All sites are read only, even for site administrators
Every site in the collection is now read-only. I can still change settings in the central admin site but am unsure what has changed.
This affects everyone, users with write permission, even site ...
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Make a copy of sharepoint site under a new name
Since we can't save SharePoint site (with publishing feature enabled) as Template, I'm looking for a way to do this programmatically :
Make a copy of "SiteA" with a new name
"SiteB" under the ...
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Two members of a group can't view list items in sharepoint 2010
I created a list on a top-level site. The list inherits permissions from the site. All members of the group share the same contribute-level permission. I have checked all views and all list items, and ...
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External access gives a blank home page
I've created a site that serves as a service portal. It requires a customer to login, so when accessing the home page, when not authenticated, you'll get redirected to the login page.
On the site ...
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How to use Web Template in sharepoint 2010
I have created a Web Template named "My WebTemplate" in Visual studio 2010 and deployed successfully to http://somesite. Now in http://somesite web application. I want to create a site that uses "My ...
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Programmaticly create a new site in Office365
I want to create a new site in a SharePoint Online (Office365) sitecollection.
When I was looking for information in the msdn it was saying that this stuff is not available in sandboxed solutions.
...
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Apply custom master for new site collection and sites under
This works for existing site collection and any new sites under it and their subsites BUT when I create a new site collection, well i can't even create a new site collection now as it gives me file ...
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404 Error after Deleting Content Database (With no Site Collections)?
After detaching a database in SharePoint then subsequently deleting in SQL Server I have been getting 404 Errors at my root site collection default.aspx page, and a few other random site collections ...
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How to make sharepoint 2010 site as readonly
How to make sharepoint 2010 site as readonly.
Note:
It should not be applicable for custom administrator group,Except the administrator group other group will get the site as readonly.
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Site vs Site Collection which to use in this situation
Wanted some opinions.....the way i have structured things at the moment on my site is as follows
1 upper level site collection -> 300 individual sites that will be accessible by our vendors (each ...
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Why cant a Site collection owner/Site owner remove posts that a site member created in the feed? (Sharepoint 2013)
I have a site collection that have a teamsite, when a normal user posts something in the microfeed webpart the site collection administrator/site owner of the teamsite cant remove the post that the ...
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Get the current user interacting with a site workflow
I have a SP 2010 state machine Site workflow with lots of custom InfoPath forms.
In some cases I need the user that's interacting with the workflow (many users can interact with the Workflow, not ...
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Limiting List Permissions Programmatically
Scenario:
When a User (let say Controller 1) creates a site using a site definition, "which already has a Custom List definition in it and different other things(like lists, webparts)"
Custom List:
...
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How to create a WSP file without using wspbuilder for Site Definition
I have a folder with following structure, I wonder how can I create a wsp file for it, and it deploy the site definition for me,
structure
- XML
- -> ONET.xml
- default.aspx
- ...
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I've screwed something up in 2007, only in the backend apparently
When I try to "modify all site settings" I get the following error:
The file '/_layouts/MasterPages/_controltemplates/Welcome.ascx' does not exist. at ...
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Get root parent site of current site
Is there a way to get the root parent site, no matter how many levels deep you are in sub-sites? For example, in this structure:
- MySiteCollection
- MyRootSite
- MySubSite
- ...
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SharePoint 2013 Site Definition Template Missing
I am using Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate RC, and I did install the Sharepoint 2013 tools.
But cant find the site definition templates. Any thoughts??
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Subsite change automatic logs me out
The situation:
We have 2 subsites: /FR and /EN
When logged in as administrator in /FR, and you change to /EN subsite, the subsite logs me out.
Is this because it's a whole new subsite and the ...
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Unable to delete site outside of site collection
In a fresh install of SharePoint 2010, I naively built a site without first creating a site collection to put it in. The site sites in the root of the server's URL space (i.e. it is simply ...
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Disable delete items in a site from central admin
From memory I know it is possible to restrict the options in a site from central admin. I want to remove the rights to delete items. How can I do this from central admin to stop site collection admins ...
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Users Creating Web Sites - How many Pages are Too Many to Effectively Manage?
I know that in part, the answer is "it depends." But are hundreds manageable? Thousands? Yes, space is cheap. But what are the drawbacks to letting users create new webs sites that could result in ...
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Custom PersonalActions menu item not showing on sub sites
I've got this code adding a menu item to the PersonalActions menu. It works on the main site but not on sub sites, any ideas why?
elements.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
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How to create a list of data gotten from many forms?
Salve! I have a handful of subsites, each with a form library that uses infopath content-types. The user creates a new form document in a the library and then fills out the form.
I want to gather ...
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SharePoint Site not picking the Last name, First name functionality?
SharePoint Site not picking the Last name, First name functionality on Home Page Header which is default functionality of SharePoint, Instead its fetching First Name then last name.
It’s fetching the ...
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Create sitemap webpart
I created Table of Contents webpart to just display the Sub Sites, but it is showing the lists (Library, Lists, Discussions, etc...). How can I just show the sub-sites and sub-sub-sites using a web ...
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getting error while importing a site to a sitecollection sharepoint 2007
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 10:00:20]: Start Time: ...
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Run event on workflow hydration/dehydration?
Is it possible to add hydration/dehydration events to a workflow? (this is a Site state machine workflow if it matters, SP 2010).
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Moving a subsite between site collections
My users have created a sub site. They have done some work to it. They have now decided that it should site in the deparment it was created but another one as they will be looking after the site going ...
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Need to make the site 'unaccessible'
I have a sharepoint site at the web-app level.
Time to time, that site should not be accessible until we decide to turn it on. During the period when it is down, if anyone tries to access, I would ...
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Is there a way to move a site across web applications regardless of site template?
I have our old 2007 intranet upgraded to 2010 via database attach. It's in its own web application and I want to move some of the sites over to our production web application.
I'm using a script ...
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Filtering view of subsites by permission
I have a site with many subsites. Only a portion of these subsites need to be (or should be) accessible by a particular user. Is there a way I can have some sort of list view on my parent site page ...
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Site-level fields created by the Community Site features and its dependencies must not be removed
I get this error: Site-level fields created by the Community Site features and its dependencies must not be removed. when trying to create a Community Site or Active the Community Site Feature, ...
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Move Files from a SharePoint Library into a Folder
I have a problem. I want to move files from a SharePoint library into a folder using PowerShell. To be more specific I need to move all the files in the library for whose a SharePoint field value ...
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Create new home site and demote current to a subsite
I am using Sharepoint 2010 foundation. I started by creating several sites from a main site. Call It technicalhome. I now have to demote this home so I can now have finance home, HRhome etc all sites ...
