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What are the default settings for the out of the box list settings for the Categories page of a Blog site?

I lost the settings for mine. How do I discover what the old settings were and re-apply them? None of the selections in the web part list box have the old settings.

Screenshot: web-part view selection list

I was editing the Categories page, and in the Web Part when I changed the "List Views" (above image) the rendering changed from the nicely formatted headings and metadata (After screenshot) to a table-like listing (Before screenshot. Since at this point I had changed nothing on this page I assumed that one of the item in the drop down list would be the same as <Current View>.

After - what a categories page looks like now:

screenshot: mostly just a table list

Before - what it used to look like (from a different blog on same SP farm, ignore different category names):

Screenshot: title formatted as Heading, author & comments as byline

I've also compared the settings for other blog pages on the same farm and don't see anything to copy over (.../blog/_layouts/15/listedit.aspx?List={list-id-#}}. None of these seem to apply:

screnshot List setting page

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  • I am not sure if your problem is related to the catetories. What do you see wen you go to this page /sites/tgg/blog/Lists/Categories/AllCategories.aspx? You should be seeing Ideas, Opinions, Events. These are the default categories. – Aslan Oct 30 '17 at 21:11
  • @Aslan - It's not the default category names I'm missing, but the default view. I was editing the Categories page, and in the Web Part when I changed the "List Views" the rendering changed from the nicely formatted headings and metadata (2nd blog screenshot) to a table-like listing (1st screen shot). Since I had changed nothing on this page yet I assumed that one of the items listed would be the same as <Current View>. [Q updated] – matt wilkie Oct 30 '17 at 21:17
  • do you have /sites/tgg/blog/Lists/Posts/AllPosts.aspx ? and did you compare the selected columns in the AllPosts view? maybe you are missing some fields... – Aslan Oct 31 '17 at 13:09
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Ok I think this will solve your problem:

  1. Edit /sites/tgg/blog/default.aspx
  2. Edit Posts webpart
  3. Set Selected view "<Summary view>"
  4. Set Toolbar Type "<Summary Toolbar>"
  5. Click Apply then OK
  6. Save the page

The page will not look as expected until the step 6.

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  • Hmmm. Didn't do it. Summary View shows the whole post, same as the Blog front page. I'm starting to wonder if the <Summary View> list itself has been broken somehow. – matt wilkie Nov 1 '17 at 22:36
  • Actually Categories is completely broken now, no matter which one I pick they all show same content as front page. :-/ – matt wilkie Nov 1 '17 at 22:44
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    Have you seen this post sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/90986/… – Aslan Nov 2 '17 at 14:01
  • No I hadn't. That sounds very like what's happened here. Previously I haven't been able to get Sharepoint Designer to work with our sharepoint and mapped network drives to SP are disabled, so I can't use the solutions there. However it might be enough info to get someone in central IT to do something. Thanks. – matt wilkie Nov 2 '17 at 16:26

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