When an item changes in SharePoint a new version gets created for that row (or item) in SharePoint list. But is there a way to have (enable) the version for an entire list? So whenever item(s) change(s), a new version of the list get created.
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1Just curious. What is the business use case of this requirement?– Amal HashimCommented Jan 13, 2015 at 18:42
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SharePoint stores changes to a list with before and after values in the site's change log. Since this is how SharePoint stores the changes to the data, there would not be a way to just query the data you are looking for. So you would have to create it with a custom solution of your own.
You could consume the change log using a web service and filter it by a specific list, then parse that with some javascript you could get really close to a view of the list for any valid date in the change log.
You could have a audit log created by a business rule that went into a parallel list on change of any item (note that deleted items cannot trigger a business rule).
In SP 2013 business rules added looping and web services, so a business rule could take a snapshot of the entire list any time any item in the list was changed (note that deleted items cannot trigger a business rule).
You could have a developer write a solution that catches all events in a list and used that as a trigger to take a snapshot of the list.
