Hi there,
We have multiple sub-sites that contain lot of references to documents that are placed in Library or workspace.
Over the period of time, many of the documents have been moved or replaced but links are not updated in the site leaving them as broken link.
we would need to fix such broken links. We dont have access to powerscripts or Central admin as of now to execute anything.
Kindly suggest possible solutions.
Thanks,
Chetan
This sounds like a really good use case for turning on the Document ID Service.
Thanks Chris.. I will download the trial now.. If I have questions, I will contact you.
Hi Jason,
It has several use cases including post-migration URL validation and correction, on-going URL health checking & maintenance, company takeover (and URL changes for sub section of sites), departmental changes and moving content to new location requires locating URL corrections.. We have customers with all of these cases, our product specializes in the SharePoint space.
We also have customers who have offered to be used for referrals as they have been impressed with the tool and the support we provide.
As it compares to other products – I would say our tool is designed specifically for SharePoint and can scan SharePoint lists, all metadata, web parts, file content including list file attachments , libraries, scanning within PDF, all MS Office files, our tool will export automated reports (using a built-in scheduler) to SharePoint (or CSV report), performs automatic find/replace (can also do this in bulk with users providing a using MS Excel with old and new links), it also works with not only broken links but can find/replace specific string matches that you can specify), inclusion and exclusion rules, as well as different caching mechanisms to improve performance. It also does not require any server-side install and uses native SharePoint CSOM programming to communicate with SharePoint 2010, 2013 and Office 365.
We would not speak negatively against other competitor products as it comes down to what suits your needs better and they may have other types of offerings that we do not, it looks like they supports OpenText which we do not.
Hopefully that helps but feel free to contact us if you need further support or have any other questions!
Chris
The entire SharePoint Essentials Suite (that includes the SharePoint Broken Link Manager) can be found here
Do you have any use case for this product? How does it compare to say, LinkTek?
The reason is SharePoint operates on a GUID system rather than a file system. So simply replacing the broken file with a backup file won’t work since SharePoint will look for a file with the proper GUID, not just the proper file name. Follow these simple steps.
1) Open the broken form and also another form in the same site which is working properly in the SharePoint designer.
2) Find the <WebPartPages:ListFormWebPart … to </WebPartPages:ListFormWebPart> in the broken form.
3) Replace that code from the form which is working fine.
4) The below code shows the lines that you have to change in the copied code.
<WebPartPages:ListFormWebPart runat="server" __MarkupType="xmlmarkup" WebPart="true" __WebPartId="{[Form GUID]}" ><Title>TITLE HERE</Title><ID>g_[Form GUID]</ID><ListName xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebPart/v2/ListForm">{[LIST GUID]}</ListName><ControlMode xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebPart/v2/ListForm">New</ControlMode><FormType xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebPart/v2/ListForm">8</FormType></WebPartPages:ListFormWebPart>
5) Create a new GUID or copy a GUID from some other form in the site which is working fine and replace it in the code. [In above code it shows as Form GUID.
You have to give this value at two places. First for __WebPartId and second for the <ID>g_[Form GUID]</ID>
Note that this is not the GUID of the list. You can create this GUID from Visual studio or many online tools are available to create one.
6) Provide the GUID of the list in the tag >ListName xmlns=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebPart/v2/ListForm”>{[LIST GUID]}</ListName>
7) Now you have to fill the Control Mode and Form type in the following tabs.
<ControlMode xmlns=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebPart/v2/ListForm”>%5BControlMode%5D</ControlMode><FormType xmlns=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebPart/v2/ListForm”>{FormType]</FormType>
Control mode and Form type differs for each form.
