I've thought a few times now how handy it would be to have "undo" functionality available on SharePoint sites. Undo isn't generally something that's available in a SharePoint site except in specific, compartmentalized areas such as blogs (which leverage existing Word functionality), but in my continuing quest to better know my My Site, I just discovered the "Restore Selection" feature.
To sample this feature yourself—a feature which could very well be a lifesaver in certain circumstances—click your Site Actions tab, select Site Settings, and then click the Recycle bin hyperlink under the Site Collection Administration heading. Here's what I saw when I clicked the link on my own My Site:
That file named "afd" is a second survey that I created the other day, in order to go back through the survey creation process while writing my post. Since this survey was just filled with garbage info (where inputs were required), I deleted it when I was done. But if I'd accidentally deleted it, and needed to restore the survey to my My Site, I'd have had no idea (until today) that the survey had been auto-saved in the Recycle Bin of my My Site. In other words, here's yet another instance of SharePoint having your back, and protecting you from yourself.
Note that, per the instructions, you can "Use this page to restore items that users have deleted from this site or to empty deleted items. Items that were deleted more than 30 day(s) ago will be automatically emptied."
Sweet!
Posted
Aug 07 2008, 04:47 PM
by
John Anderson
John Anderson joined Bamboo Solutions as Manager of Content & Syndication in May 2008 after a 12-year career at AOL. New to SharePoint at the time of his hiring, John was tasked with creating a new blog for the just-launched Bamboo Nation community in which he would document his daily SharePoint learning process. Thus was born the end user-centric SharePoint Blank, for which John authored 200 posts within a year, and which he continues to write today. Today, John writes SharePoint Blank in addition to his responsibilities as Managing Editor at Bamboo and, while he learned much about SharePoint in his first two years, he gleefully celebrates the release of SharePoint 2010 and the reset button that the new platform represents for SharePoint Blank.