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You can use the Item Query report to find text, web parts, large files, old files, files modified by specific people, files with many versions, web pages with errors, and much more

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There are often times when working with SharePoint where you need to find specific content, text or even HTML code throughout the site. Most of the time you rely heavily on either a manual check or search to find what you need. Both of these options can be time consuming and often not return the content you are looking for.

Within the Essential SharePoint Essentials Toolkit, you can utilize the “Item Query” feature to find any type of text or content easily. Within one of the pages in the On-premises SharePoint site, a page has been created that contains a SharePoint Script Editor web part with the following code:

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UPDATE: (SET v5.9.0.0) You can now also select one or more sites from the Home Page Dashboard to perform a Query against.

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From the Item Query window, set the Job Name, and then select the Site Url to Scan.

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If needed right clicking on the entry will allow you to go direct to the item itself. In this instance, it will take you to the properties for the page, not the page itself.

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You can then take your results and export them to Excel/CSV/SharePoint.

Using the Item Query option, you can be very specific and granular when searching over the content. It is a very powerful feature of the SharePoint Essentials Toolkit.

Liam Cleary - SharePoint MVP

SharePoint MVP & Part-Time Blogger at QiPoint

Liam began his career as a Trainer of all things computer-related. He quickly realized that programming, breaking, and hacking was a lot more fun. He spent the next few years working within core infrastructure and security services, until he found SharePoint. He now works as a Solution Architect for Protiviti in Virginia. His core focus is to ensure that SharePoint can either natively, or with minimal customization, meet the business requirement. He is also a ten time SharePoint MVP focusing on Architecture but also crosses the boundary into Development. His specialty over the past few years has been security in SharePoint and its surrounding platforms. He can often be found at user groups or conferences (such as Microsoft Ignite) speaking, offering advice, spending time in the community, teaching his kids how to code, raspberry PI programming, hacking the planet, or building LEGO robots.

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