Questions tagged [version-history]
A historical listing of a set number of previous versions of an item or document. Versions may be divided into major and minor sets, with minor versions representing drafts and major versions representing fully published instances of the item.
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Deleting more than 300.000 document versions
My customer has a Page Library with versioning enabled and no versions limit.
There is pages with more than 300.000 versions.
I need to delete all old versions, but keep safe the 5 newer versions.
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How can I tell the difference between Major Version and Minor Version?
I am using SharePoint 2013. I am using Version History for Documents. Furthermore, I have decided to use Major Versions and Minor Versions. My question is, how can I tell the difference between a ...
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Create link to open Version History in popup with workflow
I have a document library with versioning called Docs. I added a column of type Publishing hyperlink to it called "Version History". I want to populate this column with links that open the version ...
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What possibilites one has concerning the version control of documents?
Within a standard SharePoint 2013 site I'm providing a little document management system. What I wanted to know is, what kind of possibilities one has concerning the version control of documents and ...
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SharePoint Version History Export
I can't seem to find any other forms on Microsoft or here on StackExchange about version history exporting for 2016 versions of SharePoint. Anybody have any ideas to get a version history export on ...
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How to display published date column in document library
The scenario is there is a document library where user maintains major and minor versions of a document. When the user has to edit a document s/he checks out the document and starts their editing. ...
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can we create/ access History of Document viewers
Is there any way to create or see the history of documents viewers in sharePoint 2016.
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How can we read version history of document library and update particular version (few fileds) data in Sqlserver database?
I want to read version history of document library.
and update few fields data of a particular version history in sqlserver table.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
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Documents version history no content for SharePoint online (Office 365)?
When I right click an item in Documents and select Version History, there come up several major versions of the document and if I select one of them and click View, a dialog box like this shows up.
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Exporting item list version history
Okay, here is what I'm able to do:
Export a list from SharePoint to excel.
View an individual item's version history within the online SharePoint.
What I am trying to do is export this version ...
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Link to the last published version on a page
Is it possible to have a link on a page that always points to the last published (or highest major version)?
i.e. we don't want to have to change the page when that published version changes, so ...
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Retrieve List Item Value From Version History Using Powershell
The scenario is I want to retrieve column values(Item Value) of the list from version history and update only single column of item post.
Currently, I am not able to retrieve item object values but I ...
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Version History Changes for a Document
I have a Document Library in SP 2013 site, with document added to it and it has metadata/properties associated with it. The library has only Versioning turned on and no Check Out is enforced. The ...
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Detailed version history for a specific version label
How to perform 'View' operation for fetching all metadata values of the specific version using SharePoint client object model, for instance here version 7.1
I am working for Provider hosted app [...
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To view version history along with documents
I am working in SharePoint office365 environment. I have enabled versioning for one of my document library. I need to see the document in each version.
Is it possible? If so how to achieve it?
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Retrieving SharePoint file version properties from the web API
I'm trying to access the properties (column/field metadata) from old file versions in a document library, via SharePoint's web API.
I can successfully query the library to get a list of files with ...
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Component dedicated to version comparison of Word documents
Does it exist some component for displaying differences between versions of Word document inside SharePoint?
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What is the highest major version number possible?
We have documents that are updated automatically in SharePoint libraries and on each update a new major version is created.
I know the maximum number of major version possible is 400,000 in SP2013 ...
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Column Versions
Is there any way of adding a column to show the previous version of an approval status?
I want 2 columns: one to show the current version and the second column to show the previous version of the '...
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Publishing as major version fixes issue?
I have a file that was not responding to attempts to check it out. Version history showed 6 major and 934 minor versions of 17.5 MB file. I published later as major version and appears to work. Why ...
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Mass check out SharePoint 2013 when copying to SharePoint 2010, retain Version History
I need to move most of the contents of our current SharePoint 2013 site, to a SharePoint 2010 site (due to Corporate merger). I have mapped the network drives so I can just drag and drop what we need, ...
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Sharepoint 2013 version history for anonymous users
i have Sharepoint 2013 site with anonymous access enabled. I have custom list with versioning enabled.
Can anyone tell me best way to enable "Version History" access (view permissions) for anonymous ...
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Add link referenced to ItemID to displayform.aspx [duplicate]
Is there any way to add version history link (bellow code) on displayform.aspx as a content webpart?
<a href="#" onclick="SP.UI.ModalDialog.showModalDialog( {url: '/_layouts/Versions.aspx?list={...
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Version history button Sharepoint 2013
Is there any way how to insert "Version History" button from Ribbon to page or displayform.aspx in SP List?
Thanks a lot.
Dominik
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GIT Interaction
We use GIT as VCS. For management and for overview, we would like to connect GIT with SharePoint to display metadata of our SW-projects (we do not want to use TFS). Researching on the subject matter ...
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Display Correct Modified By and Modified times and dates using Powershell
I have a script that outputs to CSV all items from all Lists and all files from all Libraries below:
function Get-DocInventory([string]$siteUrl) {
#$site = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite $...
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Get all the versions of files and metadata from a MOSS 2007 document library
Is there a best practise to get all document versions with metadata from 2007 doc lib on Windows Server 2003?
data is not migrated to another SharePoint! It will be transfered to other platform and ...
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How to output all previous versions of a file using Powershell
I have a script that displays multiple columns and outputs to CSV file below:
Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.sharepoint.powershell
$url = "http://contoso.com"
$site = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite($...
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SPServices and GetListItemChanges
I'm trying to get the changes made on all items from a list using SPServices, in xml.
This is the code I have so far:
$(document).ready(function(){
$().SPServices({
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DispForm does not show prior version
My question is the same as Version history(display form) shows only the latest version data, except that the accepted answer in that question does not solve my problem. More details below the question....
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Calculated field to show difference between Created and when certain field changed
I'm not sure if this is possible, but I'll ask anyway.
We have items that have a field called "Status", and we'd like metrics (which is where the calculated field comes in) for how long (in days) was ...
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Version history(display form) shows only the latest version data
I've a custom list with version history enabled in SharePoint 2010.
When I open the version history data,all the versions shows only the latest version data.
Actually when I click on "Version ...
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remove the first major version of a doc powershell
I am uploading a file into sharepoint and changing the metadata like so
$FileStream = New-Object IO.FileStream($File.FullName,[System.IO.FileMode]::Open)
$FileCreationInfo = ...
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Is it possible to show file name in document version history
I am wondering if it is possible to track file name changes in SharePoint 2010 document version history?
Like when you change a property the document version will show that that value was changed. but ...
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Version History does not update when lookup changes - how to fix?
The problem:
I create a document library and a custom list, then use the custom list as the source for a lookup column in the library. Now I add a document to the library and set the value of the ...
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SharePoint pages reverting to old version automatically
The platform is SharePoint 2010. There have been a few cases where a page has been updated (a public facing page) to the next major version. At some point, the page, without any user interaction, ...
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Document IDs change when files are overwritten
We are using Sharepoint Online 2013. Versioning is activated and functional.
Our problem:
I upload a document to SharePoint.
I modify a local copy of the document and upload it again overwriting the ...
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How to create a display for last major version only
We are using a SP2013 site with some workflows and we need to display documents withe their last version only.
Let's say we have 5 docs with minor versions (1.2, 2.6, 2.2, etc...) and we want to ...
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Document Library OOB delete versions issue SharePoint 2013
I have a document in document library and it has 1.0, 2.0 major version and 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4 minor version. When I click "Delete Minor Versions" or "Delete All Versions", the last major and minor ...
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Get Item version history in a dialog box on a webpart
I created a web part with all items of different lists, I also added a image button in front of each item, now on click I want to see a dialog box opening with version history of that item.
I think ...
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Get all list items versions from client side
I am trying to get all versions from every item in a SharePoint list using only client-side through a web part.
Following the exemple at http://techfindings-prem.blogspot.ch/2014/06/how-to-get-all-...
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How to get major & minor version limit of list/library using javascript?
How to get Major Limit of Sharepoint List and both Major & Minor Limit of Sharepoint Library using javascript ?
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Get version history of each file in document set
Can anyone help me to get version history of each file in document set.
I have tried as below. here im able to get file name in doc set.
SPSite site = SPContext.Current.Site;
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customize Version History Form in doc lib
I would like to customize the version history form in my SharePoint 2013 Online App's document library with Visual Studio 2013.
I have created a button + script that keeps only the last version of ...
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How to get all major versions of List or Library Item using C#?
I have document library which has over 100 items. Each item has over 30 to 40 major & minor versions. I want to get only major versions of particular item programmatically using C#.
foreach (...
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Link or button that directs to the current list items version history wihtin an Edit Form
I need a button or link within the Custom Lists Custom Edit Form that points to the Current List items Version History.
I must be able to do this from SPD 2010?
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How to get filename from version history
I am trying to get all different file name from version history. Looks like sharepoint is not storing old filename.
I changed the filename multiple time and when I looked at version history I see all ...
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How to get a old version of list item?
I need to get all field values of an specific version.
It is possible by sharepoint hosted app (javascript)?
I need to create a custom version history page of itens.
If there is a caml query ...
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Version History: prevent restoring
Is it possible to prevent for a certain user group to restore a document from the version history?
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Will moving documents from a folder to the parent library cause issues with version history?
I'm having to move 1000s of documents from a folder into the parent library, I'm wondering if this would cause any issues with version history, ownership of the documents or the modified by/date, ...
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