02 June, 2012

sharepoint 2010 manage content and structure missing


Content and structure option was present in SharePoint Server 2007, if you are not able to see this option on your SharePoint site in SharePoint 2010 then don’t be surprised, this option still exist in this version also J
Two sections on which you can see this option, if you are missing this option then lets analyze which sections we are talking about-
§  Not able to see ‘content and structure’ option on site settings page
§  Not able to see ‘Manage content and structure’ option in site actions
Not able to see ‘content and structure’ option on site actions page
Please follow the below mentioned steps to get this option on site settings page
§  Open the sharepoint site on which you are working
§  Site actions
§  Site settings
§  Site collection administration (note: you should be site collection administrator to view this option)
§  Site collection features
§  Activate this feature ‘SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure’
§  That’s it-Completed.
Not able to see ‘Manage content and structure’ option in site actions
§  Open the SharePoint site on which you are working
§  Site actions
§  Site settings-site actions
§  Manage site features
§  Activate this feature ‘SharePoint Server Publishing’
§  That’s it-Done.
If you have any queries/questions regarding the above mentioned information then please let me know. I would be more than happy to help you as well as resolves your issues J
Thank you.

23 comments:

  1. Hi,
    I activated Sharepoint Server Publishing feature but Manage content structure didn't appear in Site Actions. Could you please suggest some errors I can make ?

    Thanks

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    1. make sure that you have activated the feature by means of site collection as well as site features. please check and let me know in case of any doubts, thank you.

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  2. I activated site collection features. There're all others functions like Publish, Page library...
    It work correctly before and the Manage content structure has just disappear recently.
    Thanks

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  3. Okay, got it- you have activated site collection features and relateded publishing feature document libraries are also there as a result of that.

    can you please activate the publising feature by means of site features also?

    -open the site
    -site action
    -site settings
    -site administration
    -site features

    Try to activate this and let me know the result.

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  4. Yes, I activated on Site features (SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure). Like I said, It's work ok before, and now it disappear.
    Thanks

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  5. Okay. can we try now by means of Powershell:

    Disable-SPFeature –Identity Reporting –url http://sp2010

    Disable-SPFeature -Identify PublishingWeb -URL http://SP2010


    Enable-SPFeature -Identify Reporting -URL http://SP2010

    Enable-SPFeature -Identify PublishingWeb -URL http://SP2010

    NOTE: I would request you to execute these commands against test site collection first/IST ENV/UAT ENV and then proceed for the prod site.

    Please let me know the results, Thank you

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  6. I'm afraid that I can't use Powershell because my site on Sharepoint Online environments
    Thanks

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  7. Hi ,
    i got problem , it says "File is not Found " ? what's wrong ?

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  8. Could you please elaborate the complete action?
    what exactly you are doing and after that you are getting that error message?

    Please specify so that i can guide you in right direction. thank you

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  9. I have similars problems i activated both features. And still my menu item is missing. Are there more dependencies for this to work ?

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  10. Does moving documents between document libaries cause version history to go away, it happened for me?

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  11. if you move the documents by means of Explorer View/Windows shared view/manual copy and paste then Yes-the version history will be lost but if you move the documents by means of content and structure then the history will be carried along with the documents.

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  12. Mihai,

    are you sure that you have activated the features by means of site collection as well as by 'manage site features' ?

    If there is still some problem then make sure you check the template customization.

    which template you are using?

    did you reproduce the issue on team site template?

    also-did you tried activating the features by using stsadm/powershelll?

    let me know your views, Thank you

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  13. I have an issue wherein i can't see options such as move, copy, delete etc in the Manage Content and Structure Page when i opens the site using "http". However, it works fine with https? Any idea?

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    1. is this happening for every site collection?- pls clarify...

      we can check the AAM once you are sure that it is happening for every site.

      if it is happening for a single site then we need to check from the server as well as is it behaving the same or not?

      pls let me know your thoughts on this so that we can proceed further.

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  14. Hi Amol,
    This is happening for only a single site collection. Interesting thing to notice is that,on few machines only it has this behaviour. I am using same account everywhere. Also i am using IE8 on all where on some it is working and on some it is not. In Firefox it is the same situation. What change on server you think is required?

    Thanks

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    1. thank you for the detail explanation.

      if this is happening only for few machines then there is nothing to do with the server.

      the problem is machine specific. nothing to worry about server/account related.

      what i can suggest is- try to revert from IE8 to IE7 on one of the machine and test the results. i think this will resolves the issue.

      i have seen such weird behaviors previously where IE8 was the culprit.

      please check and let me know the results. thank you

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  15. If I use manage content and structure to COPY lists to a new library will it preserve the history? somehow we are losing version history. Thanks

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    1. yes, copying list items/document library items within site collection will preserve the history.

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  16. thank you, I have this site bookmarked and this is the second time your post has helped me.

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    1. Thank you Sir! Its my pleasure that my article helps you to get the insight that you was looking for! Thanks once again...

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  17. Exactly the same that i was looking for, Thank you.

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  18. Simply Wonderful!

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