Questions tagged [duplicate]
A duplicate is an identical copy of an object. Duplicates are typically determined by object name, though their content may be different.
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Duplicate folders with computer name appended
Last year I moved a client (15 employees) away from a sloppy Linux/Samba file server to SharePoint Online. Although it did not go smooth the migration went along reasonably of as client expected a ...
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how to duplicate pages in SharePoint
I am trying to copy page layout from one sub site to another. It contains web parts and also from the context menu this page layout contain duplicate options for creating multiple pages quickly (...
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How to duplicate item multiple times based on value?
I want to duplicate a newly created item multiple times based on the users input of how many. In SPD, I know how to create a single duplicate but how does one go about creating multiple duplicates ...
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How do I delete a new page created by another user who hasn't checked it in?
A user has created an aspx page, but not checked it in.
Only discovered when trying to create the page again (with same name) - it won't let us, because the page already exists.
Is there any way to ...
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Doubled up approval tasks for a document
I have a reusable workflow that is being used to approve a document content type (named SWIS). When a document is submitted for approval it is created double the normal number of approval tasks. ...
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How to remove duplicates documents from Content Query
Having difficulty removing duplicate documents within Content Query.
So far...I have inserted a Content Query Web Part from Content Rollup, SharePoint 2013. This pulls data from a number of different ...
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Removing Duplicate Value in Rest Api
I have a small requirement where in i need to remove the duplicate values from the array that i am getting.
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In the below code, what i am trying to do is to get top 1000 employee names(Should ...
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Check duplicate document in Sharepoint Online
We are building a SharePoint site for my business team. One important functionality is "Upload" using which they can upload documents/ files/ videos to the library.
Recently, I saw the same video ...
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Duplicate Value data in dropdown
I have a basic requirement where in i am populating the textfield with people picker data and dynamically converting the textfield to dropdown.
Below is my code for value fetching.
<script src="...
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Duplicate links in left hand quick links
Apologies if this is me being dumb but I have searched and been unable to find an answer.
I'm currently playing around just setting up a simple team site. Currently the team site has 2 sub sites and ...
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Sharepoint list automatically created duplicate items
I have a Sharepoint list that allows duplicate values in all columns as required by the business process but the entries are still considered as unique or individual records.
However, we have one ...
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On editing task list item creates duplicate/triplicate item
I added the task list as an app-part to a page.
When I edit an item, on save it creates a duplicate item just like when we "Save as" any document.
Any help would be appreciated.
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Refiner webpart shows duplicate users
In a search refinement webpart we have mapped a refinableString as a refiner. This managed property is mapped to one crawled property named "ows_contactPerson"
Unfortunately, we're getting duplicate ...
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Check and highlight duplicates from within SharePoint list
I am currently re-designing a form for logging incidents in my team. I am using InfoPath 2013 and it is all based off a List.
One of the fields requires a customer account number to be entered. On ...
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Duplicate a Communication Site in Sharepoint Online
Is it just me or is this not possible?
I have tried making my communication site into a template (not possible) and making a copy to a subsite (not possible).
Do you have any suggestions? - ...
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A duplicate field name <name> was found while adding a column to a content type
I have a content type Custom Page and I have created a site column called CustomPageContentOne (type - Publishing HTML).
When I add this column to the Custom Page content type from UI, it shows that ...
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How to check file duplication in SP document library using REST API or jsom?
I need to check the uploading file is already exist in the document library or not by using RESt-api or jsom.
Please suggest some idea.
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Duplicate people in SharePoint Online Search result
In SharePoint Online Search result, I have some people duplicated and I don't know why.
One have information like number et the other one nothing only the same name.
I've already checked the user ...
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Removing Duplicate Item Entries on a Calendar SP 2010
My calendar is currently set up where it shows all new items added to the list for the past 30 days.
This works perfectly for the function I need, however, the only problem is that it does not omit ...
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In SharePoint 2013 do 'duplicate' user entries in the UserInfo table cause automated permission loss?
We have an issue where periodically (monthly it seems) some users will lose specifically granted 'contribute' permissions to certain subsites in our SharePoint environment. I did some research and ...
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Solution to duplicate Site or Copy a site collection granularly
I'm a sharepoint admin and I'm receiving request everyday to duplicate a site or site collection. Site templates has limitations so I really want to have something to help me. I want to be able to ...
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How to Duplicate Items In a Library
I'm trying to populate my test Library that has columns Mentor and Mentee (both are people picker coolumns).
I want to populate this library with 1000 items. It does not matter if they are duplicates....
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Duplicating a View/Table
I have a table on a page (view/table) which is a checklist. I have formatted it and it looks great as a beta at present. I want to be able to duplicate this up to 100 times for different people to use ...
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Multiple Lines of Text field set to Append Changes to Existing Text is duplicating its changes
We're using a Multiple Lines of Text type field with the Append Changes to Existing Text option enabled as a Comment field on a table on a SharePoint 2013 site. Ideally, key changes to the record ...
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How to remove duplicate list items (keep higher version ) using powershell script?
I am working with SP 2010 Sharepoint Lists where the list items is having unique column " Document No" and each items are having "version". Each time the list items are getting updated/New items are ...
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SP 2010 - Site-Collection - “Publishing Infrastructure” error message
When activating the "SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure" site collection feature I am receiving the following error message
"A duplicate content type name "Page" was found"
I am ...
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Enforce Unique Values Across 3 Columns
I have a list with 3 columns that are currently relevant:
Customer Code | Product Line | Part Number
I want to enforce unique values across all 3, so that at least one value of the three columns ...
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Duplication of documents in library
We are implementing SharePoint Online (Office 365). We are finding that changes made to a document (open in Word Online) save as a new document by the same name rather than updating the existing ...
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Can I create a duplicate of a file in a second document library which is synchronized with the original?
In a site collection, we have 2 sub-sites which have the same structure. Both contain a document library.
Sometimes, a document needs to be present in both libraries.
Is it possible to create kind ...
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Workflow to duplicate list item in the same list with SP 2013
I need to create a workflow that simply duplicates a list item and adds it to the same list. (when item is created). I know that there is the function in SP Designer 2010, but Im not allowed to use ...
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Powershell script duplicating files and displaying incorrect URL of the file's location
I have a powershell script that display a list of files that are checked out all users in a site and exports the output as a csv file:
Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.Sharepoint.Powershell
$url = "contoso....
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Different documents considered as duplicates in search results
In our Customer Center publication site (SP 2010), we have uploaded two different documents that have big parts of text in common. They are similar, but not equal. Although different documents, in the ...
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Records randomly get duplicated when added or edited.
For some reason when a certain user is adding a record, it duplicates it three times. This also happens randomly when they edit the record.
Some get duplicated while some don't. There is no workflows ...
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Remove duplicated custom action from welcome menu box
I have created a custom action in welcome menu box like this:
<CustomAction
Id ="CustomMenu_UserSettings"
GroupId="PersonalActions"
Location="Microsoft.SharePoint.StandardMenu"...
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how to remove all duplicate values from a column
For some reason when a user is adding a record, it duplicates it three times.
Why is that happening?
Since there is many How can I remove any records that contains a duplicate in a specific column?
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How do i prevent duplicate entires based on multiple criteria
How would I prevent duplicate entries into a list from being entered based on the status of a different item on the list. For example, I don't want someone to enter an new list item if they have an ...
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Duplicate workflow on the same list sharepoint 2007
i created a workflow on my custom list that does some actions. I want to duplicate the same workflow. I have to do that because many steps are the same.
My problem is when i copy and past the ...
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Incremental/Continuous crawl and case sensitivity - Duplicate items
I just stumbled upon an interesting behavior:
Have a document set:
Title: My Special Document Set
Perform a crawl (continuous / incremental crawl)
Search returns 1 result.
Rename the document set ...
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How to make a column a primary key so duplicate records cannot be added
I have a text column called JPPNum, and I want to make it so a user cannot add the same JPP Number if the record with that JPP number is already in there. So no duplicate on JPP NUm, how would I do ...
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Duplicate entries to appended comments from workflow
There is a question that has been posted that had the same issue but the resolution did not work entirely for me.
Multi-Line Text - Append Changes - Duplicate Entries on Save
In my situation I am ...
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hiding duplicates in a SharePoint view
I have a list with the following information:
I have attempted to create a table of contents by grouping results in the following manner:
However, as you can see, I have duplicated results in this ...
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Duplicate a list Item from the original item
I have SPD 2010, but do not have access to additional coding options. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Scenario: Users enter items in a list through an OOTB SP "Add New Item" form. For ...
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Lookup column with no duplicates
I have a library containing documents, each one regarding a project. I also have a custom list with tasks (for monitoring) which has a column PROJECT. There are more than one tasks per project so this ...
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Multi-Line Text - Append Changes - Duplicate Entries on Save
Using SharePoint 2013, I have a notes field (multi-line text / append changes) on a custom list being used to capture budgetary information. The notes field was intended to be a running commentary on ...
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Duplicate tasks created from workflow
I have a workflow that creates a task when the task is modified. The task is duplicated if the user goes in and modifies the task a second or third time. How can I get the task to be created on the ...
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Identifying duplicate items in a large list (>250000 items)
I have a list with ~250,000 items in it and I know that I've a lot of duplicates which I need to identify then clear out.
I don't want to write Server Side code so looking for a imaginative solution. ...
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A duplicate field name “GUID” found when adding custom content type to custom list
I've created a custom list with one content type inherited from 'Schedule' (no additional fields). Now I need to add one more content type to the instance of that list in the feature activated event (...
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sharepoint 2010 contacts duplicates
I have created a contacts list in SharePoint 2010 and need to be able to stop duplicate contact information from being added to this list. I am not finding an "out of the box" method is there some way ...
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Sharepoint 2010 Clone Entire Web Application
I've just taking over from a Sharepoint developer who has only worked in a single, live environment.
I want to set up a development environment (and subsequently also a UAT environment) and so to do ...
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Adding a content type to a list gives me a duplicate field error
I have the following code:
list.ContentTypes.Add(contentType);
It works on my dev environment, but on test fails with the following error:
A duplicate field name "[GUID]" was found.
I've had ...
