Work with site content and structure

What do you want to do?

• Go to the Site Content and Structure page

• About actions

• Select multiple items

• Copy items

• Move items

• Delete items

• Show or hide related resources

• About Site Content and Structure reports

• View reports

Go to the Site Content and Structure page

You can go to the Site Content and Structure page through the Site Actions menu. If you are at the top level of your site, you will see the menu item listed on the Site Actions menu. If you are in a subsite, you can navigate to the Site Settings page and then navigate to the Site Content and Structure page.

1. Click Site Actions, and then click Mange Content and Structure.

2. If Manage Content and Structure is not listed, perform the following steps:

   1. Point to Site Settings, click Modify All Site Settings, and then under Site Collection Administration, click Go to top level site settings.

   2. Under Site Administration, click Content and Structure.

3. The Site Content and Structure page is displayed.

4. To return to the Site Settings page, on the list toolbar, click Settings, and then click Site Settings.

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About actions

A context menu that you can use to perform typical actions is available for each item on the page, both in the navigation and list panes. From the context menu, you can perform typical Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 actions that you can perform elsewhere in the user interface. You can use publishing features such as check-out, discard check-outs, submit for approval, or publish items. In addition, you can restructure the site collection by moving, copying, or recursively deleting subsites. When content is copied, moved, or deleted, the links associated with that content are also updated.

The actions that are enabled for an item in the Site Content and Structure page are context sensitive and depend on the status of the item. For example, if an item is checked out, the check-out action is not enabled. The actions that are enabled depend on the security context of the current user. Beyond whether an action is enabled for a feature, actions that are enabled or even displayed depend on other factors such as the type of list an item is contained in or if certain features, such as publishing, are enabled in the site collection.

The discard check-outs action, which enables you to undo the check-out action for a different user on either a single item or multiple items, restores items to the state that they were in when they were last checked out. A typical scenario is if an employee forgets to check in files before going on vacation. The manager can use the discard check-outs action to release the files.

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Select multiple items

On the Site Content and Structure page, any action that you can perform on a single item you can perform on multiple items by first selecting the items and then selecting an action.

1. On the Site Content and Structure page, next to Type, click the Select All Items button.

   • Clear the items that you do not want to include.

   • To select a single item, select the check box next to the item.

2. Click Actions, and then click the action you want to perform.

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Copy items

You can copy entire subsites or lists to another subsite in the site collection hierarchy or you can copy individual list items to any compatible list. However, it is not possible to use the copy action to duplicate a list item in the same list.

After you perform the copy action, the site navigation is updated for all navigation components, and the site navigation will reflect that the subsites, lists or list items are in both locations.

1. On the Site Content and Structure page, select the item or select multiple items to copy.

2. Click Actions, and then click Copy.

3. In the Copy dialog box, select a destination, and then click OK.

4. The source items are validated to ensure that it is compatible with the destination container. If validation determines:

   • An item is compatible, the item will be copied, and the Site Content and Structure page will be displayed.

   • An item is not compatible, an error message appears, and the item will not be copied.

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Move items

You can move individual list items or entire subsites to another subsite within the site collection. A subsite can be moved to be directly under the top level in the site collection hierarchy or under another subsite in the site collection hierarchy. When you move a subsite, all of the content in the subsite is moved. However, you cannot move only a list (for example, only the Documents library) to another subsite.

When you move a subsite or an item, because the navigation is generated dynamically from the site collection hierarchy, the navigation components are automatically updated so that the new location for the item or subsite is reflected in the navigation.

You can use the move action to efficiently re-architect your site. For example, you might need to rebuild the navigation for your site or move the subsite for a department because they have been reorganized to be under a different group.

1. On the Site Content and Structure page, select the item or multiple items to move.

2. Click Actions, and then click Move.

3. In the Move dialog box, select a destination and then click OK.

4. The source items are validated to ensure that they are compatible with the destination container. If validation determines:

   • An item is compatible, the item will be moved and the Site Content and Structure page will be displayed.

   • An item is not compatible, an error message appears, and the item will not be moved.

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Delete items

This feature enables a site administrator to reorganize a site without forcing site administrators to delete each item individually. Entire subsites or individual items can be deleted from the site collection hierarchy.

If the recycle bin is enabled for the site, list items can be recovered after they have been deleted. However, deleting a subsite is a drastic action; the entire branch is permanently deleted even if the recycle bin is enabled.

1. On the Site Content and Structure page, in the tree view, point to the subsite you want to delete, and then click the arrow that appears.

2. On the menu that appears, click Delete.

3. A warning dialog box appears with the message Deleting the selected sites will permanently delete all content and user information. All subsites in this site will also be permanently lost.

4. In the warning dialog box, click Yes.

5. Because this is a long-running operation, the Performing Delete Operation Web page is displayed.

6. When the operation completes, the browser automatically loads the Manage Content and Structure page.

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Show or hide related resources

Use this feature to determine the resources that are called by an item. Resources are any elements used by the page, including page layout, images, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), links from the page to other pages, links to the page from within the site collection, and links to or from this page. Identifying the related resources for an item is especially useful if, for example, you need to delete an image. By determining the dependencies for that image, you can update the links or resources as necessary.

This feature only shows the related resources for one item at a time. If you do not have an item selected when you click Show Related Resources, the first item in the list pane is selected. Whenever you select a different item in the list, resources are displayed for that item.

To show related resources    

1. On the Site Content and Structure page, on the list toolbar, click Show Related Resources.

2. The Resources Related To pane is displayed.

3. If you did not select an item, the report will be run for the item that would be first if the list were sorted alphabetically.

To hide related resources    

1. On the Site Content and Structure page, on the list toolbar, click Hide Related Resources.

2. The Resources Related To pane is not displayed.

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About Site Content and Structure reports

Seven reports are available when you install Office SharePoint Server 2007. When you select a report, all the items that match the filter in the current site and any subsites under the current site are returned.

If you have the appropriate permissions on your site, you can create or edit reports to make them specific to your situation or environment. For example, authors might have difficulty locating all of the pages that they are working on throughout the site collection. By running a report, they can find all the items and then, from the report view, they can perform actions on the items in the same way they can in the All Documents view.

Because reports are items in a list, after you create a new report, it is automatically deployed. Also, because reports are list items, they can be version-controlled so that they must be checked before they can be edited.