Questions tagged [versioning]
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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Sharepoint versioning omitting versions / automatically merging
To anyones knowledge, does sharepoint somehow omit versions, or merge them, once they "repeat"?
I have a sort of linear approval workflow. Approver A fills in some data, changes the value in ...
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How to find the user who has created a draft item in a SharePoint list
I am trying to find out the name of a user who has changed something in an SP list. I am calling this API:
https://tenant.sharepoint.com/sites/sitename/_api/web/lists/getbytitle('listname')/Items(ID)/...
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SharePoint 2016 Word 365 credential prompts when opening history version of document
I have problem when opening history version of document.
Word 365 prompts for credentials 2 times. Closing the prompt opens document nevertheless.
When opening main document everything works correctly ...
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Document library keeps forgetting its settings
I have a document library on a SPO site which I need to customize.
I want it to have the following settings:
Require content approval for submitted items? Yes
Require documents to be checked out ...
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SharePoint 2013 API / versions on files. Extract version history of custom SharePoint file properties
I'm trying to iterate through the file versions of documents on our SharePoint document library. The goal is to extract what some custom properties were at a given point in time.
However, I'm having ...
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Avoiding Minor/Major limits errors
I have a SharePoint online document library, and we have enabled minor and major versioning, now some documents will be edited by many users, so we are expecting that the Major (50,000) & Minor (...
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How to recover a SharePoint list using the version history in Sharepoint Online?
How to recover a SharePoint list using the version history in SharePoint Online?
I have a list which I have deleted a few records. How can I recover them using version history?
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Get file contents of previous 'Versions' in sharepoint library
My end goal is to attach historical versions of a file to an email using Power Automate. I.E. The last three months of test results which are stored on SharePoint with the same file name, which ...
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Powershell: Check if page has unpublished version?
How can I use PowerShell to check if the latest version of a publishing page has been published?
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Why more than 500 versions are getting created even limit is set
there is an issue where in a document library the default limit for number of versions for a document is 500 but its still creating more than 500 versions for a document. Did u guys see this issue ...
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After a MAJOR version is created, how do I retrieve previous minor versions
I had a Word file on a SP team site. When 500 minor versions accumulated, it would not accept further edits UNLESS a MAJOR version was started from the same file.
I did that. Now the version is 1.1. ...
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Version history not saving properties
I have 3 environments on which I have Versioning turned on. Each of them is created from the same PnP template, and has the same logicApps/etc connected to them. On one of them however, version ...
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What do I need to do to enable version control?
I have full control on SharePoint site and have enabled Version Control on my list, however I do not see any versions when I click on the ellipsis next to my list in Site Contents. What else do I ...
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PowerShell PnP Unable to get file versions in big files
I'm using OneDrive (office 365 account) as a cloud backup, and I got a problem with the versioning system as for big files (outlook .ost and .pst mainly) it keeps generating new versions for the file ...
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SharePoint limits for major and minor versions
I am reading the SharePoint limits inside this link @ sharepoint-online-limits, where it says the following:
Versions
50,000 major versions and 511 minor versions.
So what will happen if the major or ...
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unable to edit a document online. Error "Upload Failed the minor version limit has been exceeded"
Some users has received the following error when they try to edit some documents inside online sharepoint site:-
now based on my knowledge what we can control inside the document library's versioning ...
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Rename "Version comments" inside the document library's Upload.aspx page
When i open the Upload.aspx page for an online document library inside a new tab , i will get these fields:-
My question is if i can rename the "Version Comments" field? i access the ...
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OneDrive Sync with SharePoint is showing the files in Read-Only mode
We have a document library inside our online classic team site, and it has a custom content type which mimic the built-in Document content type:-
Also we have the following versioning settings:-
Now ...
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What happens if multiple changes are made on an item of a SP list which has approval process in place
I have developed some flow in MS flow for managing some SP lists.
MS flow sends an approval email to the admin for a change.If users keep editing the item the admin recives more emails. What happens ...
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Why the document will be checked out by default when uploading it while having a custom content type
I did the following:-
I created a new modern SharePoint page >> inside it i added a Button web part, as follow:-
The url for the button refers to the upload dialog for a document library, as ...
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Is there a way to stop editing an item when the approval status is pending in SP online list-i.e. submitted for approval?
Is there a way to stop editing an item when the approval status is in the pending mode in SharePoint Online list? i.e. restrict users to change an item when it is waiting for the approval process. I ...
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How to show the editor rather than the approver/(power automate user) in the Version History
I have a list in SP online which needs admin approvals. After the admin approve the change, some calculations are done and some fields will be populated in the Power Automate.
Mohsen here is the admin ...
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If you reduce the SharePoint version history for a document library, will the oldest versions be deleted?
Example: The default major versioning history for a document library in SharePoint Online is 400 versions.
I am looking to free up space in SharePoint Online.
I want a document library to only retain ...
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Checking Non-Word Files Back In
I'm contemplating using SharePoint to manage shared files, including keeping a version history, and requiring check-out (the files contain certain modelling data). In SharePoint 2010, I can upload non-...
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SharePoint Versioning Enabled Yet not Working
As far as I am aware, there have not been made any changes to our versioning on SharePoint Online. Yet out of a sudden, changes in files or uploads of equally named files with differing content do not ...
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In SharePoint Document Library, Identify document version where content has been modified
In a document library, I've some documents with version history.
How can we identify the versions where content(not metadata) of the file has been changed using C#?
I have tried by comparing the size. ...
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Ensure first version of a document is published and visible when initially uploaded
We have an issue in our organisation where people upload documents, and then walk away thinking everybody else can see it. However, we have minor and major versions enabled, meaning documents in ...
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How can I associate a "document" with a SharePoint list, and have the workflow wait for the document to be checked in?
I have a SharePoint list workflow running on the latest/greatest SharePoint OnLine. I'm using SharePoint Designer 2013. Unfortunately, PowerApps Flow is not an option.
I'd like to add some new ...
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Static link to latest version of picture on sharepoint
I have a picture which is on SharePoint which is versioned. I upload automatically a new version every day and now I want to embed this picture to a page.
I tried to do it by clicking on the picture ...
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Get comments of previous versions checked in in SharePoint Online using Rest API
I am trying to retrieve comments from my previous check in's in a library file in SharePoint Online.
In SharePoint Online I can see the Check in comments successfully present in all the file versions ...
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Replacing file in SharePoint folder- new file is displayed in browser, old file displayed in app
Having been working on a document offline for a while, I tried copying it to the relevant folder on SharePoint- which already had the original version of the document.
When dragging my local copy of ...
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SharePoint Online page version [closed]
I can't find a versioning of the page. Is there an option for Office 365 SharePoint?
Cloud version.
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Deleting a version from a custom list item will only remove the data inside field/s with "Append Changes to Existing Text = Yes"
I am working on custom list inside SharePoint online, and the list have major versions turned on. so now when i click on the date inside a field which have "Append Changes to Existing Text = Yes" >> i ...
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Updating an XSLX file which is already in use
I am using File.OpenBinaryDirect in Microsoft.SharePointOnline.CSOM to download an .xlsx file from a document library, then change the file and uploaded it again (using File.SaveBinaryDirect).
This ...
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Previous version of document gets saved as most current version when the true most recent version is saved
I have a document library with versioning enabled (major only). We are experiencing an intermittent issue where while saving a document, a previous version of the document is saved as one version ...
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(PnP Powershell) Note type fields appear to be empty when versioning is enabled
I'm trying to build a script that will copy the contents of a list from a site to another list in a subsite or a different site.
Unfortunately many multiline text fields (FieldType = Note) appear to ...
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Uploading a new version of a pdf file
I know how to upload a new version of a document in SharePoint. However, I want to upload the new version of a PDF or a zip file.
Is it also possible to have different version for non-office ...
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Can I set version number of SharePoint Online documents?
I've just read these two questions:
"Set version of a document"
"Is it possible to set the version number of SharePoint document?"
but I would like to be sure that nothing has changed and that I ...
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Combining five files with same content but different names into one file with versions in sp2019
I am working with SP2019, on the file share there is a Legal folder added which gets lot of files dumped into it. Once users work on files, they save it there and send it to external party for review....
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Submit Major Version from Microsoft Flow, without content approval
Is it possible to publish a major version of a document using Microsoft Flow, specifically when Content Approval is disabled? I cannot see any relevant Flow actions that might accomplish this for me.
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Managed Property for Version History & Comments
I'm currently working with a spfx web part that utilized managed properties to pull information about documents. I would like to be able to pull the most recent version and the comment associated with ...
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Can I have a free-text comment tagged to a specific document that WON'T create a new version when edited?
I understand that if I have versioning enabled in my document library, then any changes I make to a document or its metadata will be represented in a new version of that document.
My customer has ...
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Sharepoint Online - Disable Versioning, or force onedrive to not clone objects
We reached Sharepoint Online storage limit because of versioning size of non-Office files. OneDrive on Mac (or sharepoint) is just cloning files as revision so e.g. i have a ~400MB file with 40 ...
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How to get all versions of a multi-line text field in a workflow
I have a custom list with versioning which contains a multi-line text field with append.
In any workflow (insert, update triggered...) i cannot read the content of that field (always blank) although i ...
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How can I add the Version number AND Date to the footer of a document?
I've already figured out how to add the Version number using the method below:
https://www.ilikesharepoint.de/2014/06/sharepoint-display-sp-version-number-in-a-word-document/
However, I need to ...
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Alternatives to Versioning?
Are there alternatives to use Versioning? I have a customer who works in an environment that is strict on using versioning AND, for this particular project, rightfully so (about 2000 pdf files in one ...
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share point document version still incrementing even after disabling the versioning and minor versioning
I have a SP 2013 document library with content approval and versioning enabled. Now through a console application I am disabling the content approval and versioning to updated the document and after ...
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Should Document library versioning be enabled when storing XML files?
Should Document library versioning be enabled when storing XML files? I know the advantages of turning it on for MS office documents. Does it do any good turning it on for XML files and folders?
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check out / check in tracked as a an edit
Is the act of checking out and checking in a document considered an edit? We are trying to determine if someone was in fact editing a document or just opening and looking at a document. We did not ...
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The 'no versioning' is back for modern sites?
In my tenancy I can still see the 'no versioning' option in modern sites. The option is missing from sites created from the central admin.
This tenancy did not opt out from the deployment of removing ...
