Checking In Multiple Documents At Once SharePoint 2007
Posted on October 3rd, 2008
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If you have users that have uploaded multiple documents and your document library is not configured as in this article, all of the uploaded documents may appear as "checked-out". This seems to be a little known fact about document libraries and is a frequent "gotcha" for SharePoint.
This can leave you have somewhat of a dilemma on your hands. Especially if they do like my user did and check in over 150 documents. Each document will appear with a little green arrow - which means it is checked out and therefor cannot be seen by anybody else.
If the user opens the document and saves it, it immediately gets checked-in. However, you would not want to have to explain to a user that they have to do this on 150+ documents. That doesn't help your adoption curve.
You can use the "View Content Structure" screen to move around mass documents, and even...
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This can leave you have somewhat of a dilemma on your hands. Especially if they do like my user did and check in over 150 documents. Each document will appear with a little green arrow - which means it is checked out and therefor cannot be seen by anybody else.
If the user opens the document and saves it, it immediately gets checked-in. However, you would not want to have to explain to a user that they have to do this on 150+ documents. That doesn't help your adoption curve.
You can use the "View Content Structure" screen to move around mass documents, and even...
[Read more →]
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