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 version history not working until the file has been opened online, and not at all for file which cannot be opened online
I recently changed the version history setting on some of out sites to only major versions, with 200 versions saved, as our company is not big enough to take advantage of the more advanced ...
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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 do I trigger or start a workflow on only a document major version?
I have a document repository with versioning set up for both major and minor. (We need minor version to store redline/document changes.) We required check out. I want to trigger or start the ...
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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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Approver of content approval
I need your help,
I have document library where there is major versioning enabled and content approval is enabled.
A approver approves the item from approve/reject option in the document library.
I ...
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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 ...
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When Drag/Drop a file inside a document library, error “A file with the name XXXX.oft already exists. It was last modified”
We have sharepoint 2013 on-premises, and inside a team site we have a document library which does not have versioning enabled, as follow:-
now i uploaded a file named n1.oft using the "upload&...
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Restore List item to the older version using CSOM C# approach
we need to restore list items from a particular list (not document library) to the older version
but what i can understand is for document libraries we do have that provision like
Item.File.Versions....
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SharePoint Versioning
I have a published document in an Approved status and need to make changes to it. However, I still want the approved published document visible in the library with still an approved status, but also ...
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Site Assets library still carries the 'No versioning' option
Am I correct in noticing that all default Site Assets libraries can still be set on 'No versioning' like it used to be for normal libraries?
Is there a way with powershell or similar to turn to 'no ...
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How to restore a previous version of an Infopath form when changes were made to the template?
We are working on a SharePoint 2013 Environment. We recently made changes to the form template and published it. We are able to access the new template by opening up a new form from the Document ...
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How can I update the Editor/Author field of a versioned item
I am using a multiline text field with Append Changes to Existing Text enabled. So everytime I add a new comment it creates a new version with, Created by set to the user who triggered the action.
I ...
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SharePoint 2010 versioning
We would like to implement SharePoint versioning but our QMS Controlled Documents already have version which is done manually. Is there a way to set up versioning and then set the version number to ...
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Moving document causing this error “ smaller version limit than the source ”
we want to move files from an online document library to another online document library inside the same site collection, using the "Move to" button, but i got this error:-
... a smaller version ...
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Change approval status after insert item via Sharepoint REST API
I recently noticed that by modifying the column of an item in a list with active versioning, however much the item is approved, it changes the status to draft.
When faced with this problem I decided ...
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Location of (permanently) deleted minor versions from OneNote file
currently in our company environment we have OneNote Online file stored in our SharePoint 2013 (site assets) and on OneDrive:
-https://XXX.XXXX.net/sites/pl-p46/SiteAssets/Showroom%20PL%20Notebook?...
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Sharepoint 2013 Undo last publishing
On Sharepoint 2013 when you modify and save a published item you get a draft version with the last published item still published:
No. Modified Modified By Size
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How does sharepoint online store the documents versions. does it only store the differences between versions
I am not sure how does sharepoint online managed the versions for the documents inside document libraries? For example let say that i have a document with 50 pages and the document is on version 1, ...
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Versions of ListItems in SharePoint REST API?
i need to to create/access versions of SharePoint-ListItems (major/minor versions) using REST.
If I understand the SharePoint 2013 REST Syntax (wall posters) correct, than it should be possible to ...
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Seeing Version column in Access linked list
I've turned on versioning for the list. It shows in the SharePoint List.
However when I link the list to my Access database the Version column isn't showing up. All the other columns do.
Thoughts?...
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Get list item values from SP.FileVersion object (JSOM)
Using the following JavaScript function, I am able to get all versions of a specified list item:
function getListItemVersions(listTitleOrId, listItemId) {
let context = null;
let web = null;
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How to handle VSTS and TFS during migration from sharepoint 2013 to SharePoint online
How to handle VSTS and TFS during migration from sharepoint 2013 to SharePoint online. What are the things that need to be setup in SharePoint Online for that and will the versions be preserved while ...
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Permission level needed to allow reading only the current version
How can I set the permission for a document or library such that the user (or user group) can read only the current version of the document and have no access to older versions.
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Event Receiver - Revert back last version of document Update on Item Updating or Item Updated Event
I want to revert back the last updated version of Document through Event Receiver on specific condition occurred.
I have 1 Document Library, in which I have assigned a content type. In content type ...
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Error “The label reference, Version, could not be found”. when adding a Label to my Document site content type's “Information management settings”
I want to show the document versions inside our sharepoint online document libraries' items. so i follow these steps, which show how we can add a Label inside our document list content type:-
https://...
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File not updating latest version
I have an issue with a document library where a file is being uploaded as an updated version, however, the old version is still visible (image below).
What should normally happen is the newer and ...
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Exporting item version check in comments
I have followed this answer to extract the list of versions in my document library to excel:
However, while the table lists all the versions it only displays (and repeats) the most recent check-in a ...
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Is it possible to override a published file version?
I want to modify a lot of files in SharePoint programmatically, but it's important to not create a new version. When versioning is turned off for a list, this is easy to do using
file.CheckOunt();
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replace files with the same name in libray rut or folders
i use folders in sharepoint libraries for the follwing reasons:
when library has more than 2500 files
when i want different permision for some files
when i want to sync some files.
and i ...
