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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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.
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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
2.1 11/...
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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 ...
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Modify Document Version date SP2016
I have a stack of documents i need to upload into sharepoint
they are all different versions of the same document.
i'm planning to upload each document into SharePoint and make them different ...
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How to limit the amount of versions per file?
Our client uses Sharepoint (Office 365). They have multiple sites setup. They have a 50GB limit overall. I found that some Excel files are 3GB+ large due to it keeping 3000+ versions of the file.
We ...
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Publish Major Version Comment access in SPD workflow?
When publishing a major version of a document, SharePoint prompts the user for comments on their changes. These comments seem to appear in the "Check In Comments" column.
Is there a way to capture ...
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How does timing of Document Publishing and Crawl affect Search Results
Once a document has been published (Version 1), has been crawled, and is available to search in SharePoint Online, if the document is republished with the next version (Version 2), does the crawl have ...
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Sharepoint Online, Getting the Versions of a document only returns older versions of the document and not the current
I am developing a desktop app in c# using CSOM to run against an o365 SharePoint solution.
I managed to get the version, however in testing I have noticed that I am always getting the second newest ...
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Copy document between libraries
In library1 that has major versions activated, document A has 30 versions and same document is copied, programmatically, in library2 there are 10 versions.
User realizes he made a mistake and wants ...
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Sharepoint 2013 Versioning Control Powershell
I am wondering if you can possibly help me with an issue i am having. I have managed to get a powershell script for enabling versioning control on a site in Sharepoint and it seems to work fine for ...
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Is it possible to have versions of a document (other than the current) automatically transfered to another document library?
I have a slide library that has major and minor versions enabled. Once a slide is updated to it's current version, I want the "new" old version to transfer to another document library. Is this ...
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Restoring Old File of Document Library, versioning not enalbed
I am new to SharePoint, one of our users changed content of the spreadsheet stored in document library and saved the spreadsheet.
Later in he realized that he has put wrong content in spreadsheet and ...
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Is it possible to set the version number of SharePoint document?
I have two site collections in SharePoint Online. One is the live site collection and one is the Testing Site.
I want to upload a document onto the Test Site Collection, make some changes to it and ...
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Compare Specific Version in Word 2016 doesn't do anything
A few of my clients are having a very specific issue with Word 2016 and how it integrates with our SharePoint 2013 farm.
As the story goes, our user wants to compare a legal document with one of its ...
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How to overwrite version of a file using CSOM?
When I check in as a major version or minor version, it creates the new version as a major. Below is the code:
private static void UploadFiles(string sourceFileUrl, Folder targetFolder, string ...
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Reset Versioning Settings by PowerShell
On our libraries we set versioning settings = create major versions and keep 50 of them.
We'd like to remove only the "Keep the following number of major versions" setting on all libraries. Because ...
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Is there a way to show the document status inside a document library indicating if the document is Draft or Published
I have a SharePoint enterprise farm 2013 on-premises. and i have a team site which contain a document library. now for this document i define the following versioning settings:-
so currently my ...
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Versioning of lists for analysis
Update
Well, I found a partial solution to my question. So, I have to update it. The way to extract information for my purpose is by turning on versioning. However, I am still not sure how to extract ...
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Is there a way to view version history of a column attribute changes?
This question is not about version history of changes made in an item record but changes made to the columns or attributes within the list settings. Like for example when someone adds a new attribute ...
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Which API will update versioning in sharepoint 2013?
Any pointers to Which API will update versioning in SharePoint 2013?
And any code snippet to do it?
I have checked update() vs systemupdate() but not sure about the API part.
