Versioning enables you to store, track, and restore items in a list and files in a library as they are changed.
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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 to enable versioning of PDF files in SharePoint 2010
Using SharePoint 2010 I want to be able to version my PDF files. So for example I want the user to be able to check out a PDF file, update it, and check the same file back into SharePoint. Is there a ...
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Remove [Revert to template] message from page
I created a page in SharePoint 2010 and then made some edits to the page.
Then I went into the page Version History and restored a previous version of the page.
Now I have this message that does not ...
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After adjusting version settings (from unlimited to max 10) performance grinds to a halt
For several document libraries in our SharePoint environment end user enabled versions without setting a limit. Or were given a document library with unlimited versions(result of having no governance ...
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Are there any implications to having a large number of document versions?
One of my users has a 5MB documents with 64 versions. This seems a little excessive and I can easily trim it to x number but I wanted to know for my own benefit, are there any real implications for a ...
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Is there a way to determine if the SharePoint version is 2007 or 2010 using Managed Client Object Model?
I am building an application that interacts with SharePoint 2010. It is a Silverlight application built on the Managed Client Object Model.
The application is set up on SharePoint like this: User ...
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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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how do I view the older version of the document without restoring?
If I add version to my documents and later on want to retrieve copy of an older version, how do I do that without restoring the older version? In my document library there is a file "test" that has ...
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SBS 2008 “AllDocsVersions” table has grown to 225Gb
we innadvertantly had versioning enabled on a heavily used list and the database table "alldocsversions" has grown to 225 Gb.
Can anyone suggest a way in which we can rid ourselves of the previous ...
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How does SharePoint store versions of customised pages?
While a page is uncustomised (previously known as unghosted) it is stored on the file system, however once it is customised (previously known as ghosting) it is copied to the DB. Source 1 and Source 2
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Can an entire list/library be versioned?
It's possible to enable item versioning on lists and roll back to a previous version on that item. Can this be done for the entire list? So we can roll the whole thing back?
We accidentally modified ...
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How to stop two version a sharepoint designer workflow running at the same time?
I have a SharePoint 2010 designer workflow that is running on change. When I publish a new version of the workflow and the items is edited, I end up with two version of the workflow running. Is there ...
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How can I get draft documents in a document library to be crawled by search?
Background for My Issue:
I'm working on a document library, with major and minor versioning enabled. For the draft items, the client requires that only users who have permission to edit items in the ...
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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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SP version history is different from version history dispayed in Office application
Have you any idea why office application like Excel or Word shows different name in version history than SP version history? This is version history of some Excel file viewed through SP GUI:
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Versioning, Calculate date since last update
SharePoint 3.0, I'm currently creating a new file repository for Reports. Those reports will be updated every week / months, since I need to keep the old file, I will use the built in Versioning. This ...
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Getting AssemblyFileVersion of a wsp **without** a feature
I got a monitoring page where I show the version of all web parts, features etc.
If I use features with Event Receiver I can easily get the version. If the Feature has no event receiver I solved that ...
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How do I see the complete page content of an old version of a page?
I have a page library in a publishing site that has major and minor versions. I can click on a page's context menu and select View History and it gives me a list of all the major and minor version ...
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Does Update-SPSolution trigger a SPFeature.Upgrade()?
I'm looking into Feature versioning and upgrading in SharePoint 2010 and I don't know exactly if the Update-SPSolution cmdlet triggers a SPFeature.Upgrade().
Are <UpgradeActions> elements ...
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Maximum number of SharePoint Major & Minor Version
Is there a cap on the number of major and minor version allow for SharePoint? (From what I know, a single major version can have a cap of 511 minor version (draft version).)
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SharePoint Versioning restriction & customize
With regards to SharePoint 2007 versioning feature:
Is it possible to put restriction on who can delete the version of a
changed item in a SharePoint List?
Can the versioning be apply to new item?
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Uploading multiple documents into a library keeps the documents checked out and not visible to other users
When you upload multiple documents into a Document Library with versioning turned on, is it a SharePoint 2007 default to keep the documents checked out? For some reason, when multiple documents are ...
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Moving docs WITH version history [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can you move a document with its version history to a new library?
Tom, were you ever able to move documents WITH version histories from one folder to another? I ...
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Using SharePoint version number in calculated column?
I'm trying to get the value of column "Version" in a calculated column. I'm not sure if it's a bug with SharePoint 2007 but every time a document is updated, the version number shown in the calculated ...
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document properties wiped out when saving a new version of office document
I use the SaveBinary() method of the SPFile class to save the new file to an
existing document library item. The problem is, if this document library
item is an Office document, the SaveBinary() ...
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Retrieve using CAML the currently published version of a document
I want retrieve the currently published version of a document from a document library using CAML. Can anyone tell me how I can achieve this? I need it to get the currently published version ...
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Set version of a document
We are looking at moving a some documents into a SharePoint 2010 document library.
Is there any way to set the starting version number for each document?
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Update-SPSolution & Items in a Document Library
I have the following situation:
solution1.wsp that has a document library with files inside (I use a module element for adding new files to the feature)
and solution2.wsp that has a document library ...
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Is it possible to have published major and minor versions?
I am currently trying to setup versioning for a document library. The aim is to use both Major and Minor versions which indicate the level of change:
A minor version will be a small terminology edit
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Possible to download all versions of a document?
My team is looking for a way to download all versions of a particular document on our site (or more generally we would like to back-up all versions of all documents in a particular document library). ...
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AssemblyVersion(“1.0.*”) and Web Parts?
I need two things out of an assembly I'm developing, and they seem to be at odds:
Bake the compile time into the version number
Offer a web part that won't go stale every time I deploy
I'm using ...
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Restore the newform.aspx to its earlier version SharePoint list 2010
I am customizing the newform.aspx, and now when I try to add another text-box SharePoint field and try to change the type to form field, the form field option don't appear in the drop down box. I ...
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Best way to clean up production Site ListItem Versioning
I realized a minor flaw in my event receivers for a List with versioning enabled. I used the ListItem.Update() instead of ListItem.SystemUpdate(). In addition I did not use This.EventFire = false. ...
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Error in version display SharePoint 2010
I am getting below error when I try to see the version of an item.
Error
Item does not exist. It may have been deleted by another user.
Troubleshoot issues with Microsoft SharePoint Foundation.
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Version History and Version Numbers don't add up
In my SharePoint list, I can see version numbers. When I click a document in the list, I see that Version History in the Documents tab is greyed out, and it does not appear in the context menu for ...
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Display Task Historic Data
I have a Tasks list with versioning enabled. Each task goes through several states (Not Started, In Progress, Completed).
Is there an easy way to display for a given task its timeline? For example ...
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Modifying file contents without creating a new version
I have a job that runs every five minutes and puts some information to the footer of the Word documents. Versioning is enabled on the list so whenever the job runs, a new version is created for every ...
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SharePoint version column
Is there any way to store previous value of column in SharePoint 2010 in another column .
I'd like to show the old version of column A in column B and if it can be done without SharePoint Designer.
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Turn on versioning for specific sub-site (aka subweb)
Turn on versioning for specific sub-site (aka subweb)
Is versioning at list level only or can it be set to a sub-site?
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Discard an unapproved page checkin in MOSS 2007
Okay, I think I must be missing something obvious here.
I have a standard webpart page. Version control and publishing is turned on.
There are a number of previous versions. Currently, there is a ...
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“Time machine” for Document libraries
Last week I got an interesting request from a customer: They would like to be able to see what a document library looked like at a given date.
As far as I know this will require that the library 1) ...
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Prevent a group from deleting document version history
In a Document/Form Library with versioning enabled (SP 2010), it is possible to delete all versions of a particular document/form simply by going to the "Version History" dialog box. This ability ...
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Major / minor versions best practice - MOSS 2007 document library
By default minor versions (draft) do not appear in the search, I'm aware it is possible for the items to appear in the search. We have a requirement where minor changes are made to documents and ...
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Publish a previous minor version
Many uploads where accomplished without any concern on publishing the major versions.
For example, 0.1 to 0.10 where checked in and 0.3 and 0.8 need to become majors.
Is it possible to go back in the ...
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Issue in versioning and metadata with recent Office Files
I have a web service that shows a sort of CRUD of document (with metadata) for other application..
I have some document libraries in which users can upload (via WS) documents with metadatas.
For ...
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Get All Items of a list regardless the approval status
I'm creating a page showing all items from a list. I have enabled versioning for that list.
So I want to show the list of all items, even pending items, when a user with contribute permissions is ...
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Can I publish a document from one site's document library to another's?
Here's the scenario:
A development team has a SharePoint site called Dev. There's a document, foo.txt, that multiple users are collaborating on. It lives in a document library. Users check it out, ...
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Is there a way to automatically send major document versions to a Records Center while keeping the primary document active?
I'm working on a project in SP Server 2010 that requires strong record keeping. We have living documents that are constantly being updated, but we also have strict documentation requirements. Ideally, ...
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reordered columns in List, now one is missing, its version history gone
My coworker added a new column to a Sharepoint List and then reordered the columns such that the new column was in between two existing columns. Now one of the existing columns can't be found. She ...
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Prevent users from editing major version
Is it possible to prevent users from editing a major version of a document? Basically, what I want to be able to do is that when a user changes a draft version to a major version I want the document ...
