Hi,

We have a single site collection that grew too large and now we're splitting the content to different content databases.

We're mostly using Document ID and saving documents.

From my testing, moving subsite (web) to newly created site (site collection) keeps Document ID in existing documents.

The problem is, I want to start new Document ID count in new site collection while keeping existing IDs untouched.

Here's the thing:

Our ID starts with "ID123". I added some new files and got ID123-111, ID123-112 etc...

So I changed it, without resetting existing documents, from Document ID Settings page (DocIdSettings.aspx) to "NEWID" and rerun both jobs (tried multiple times) only new created documents got new ID witch is exactly I wanted ... BUT

When I created again new documents I got my old ID with "ID123-113". I run dozen times timer jobs but old ID were never changed. So I changed again ID settings to "NEWID2" and rerun timer jobs. Last created documents got new ID but new created documents afterwards  got again "ID123"

Any advise?

Update: Even if I reset all documents with new ID, after timer jobs, all new documents receives old ID ("ID123"). Another thing, some documents got the same ID.

• Edited by Sergey Pelykh Thursday, March 19, 2015 11:41 AM

Hi,

According to your description, my understanding is that you want to preserve the Document ID when moving the documents across site collections.

Per my knowledge, the document id will be preserved when the document has been moved from one Site Collection to another Site Collection.

During move operations, SharePoint Server 2010 keeps the document ID. During copy operations SharePoint Server 2010 assigns a new document ID. You can control this by setting a Boolean operator on the PersistID column. 

I have tested this in SharePoint 2013, and got the same result.

More references:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee559302(v=office.14).aspx

http://www.sharepointeurope.com/blog/2013/6/26/sharepoint-moving-a-document-with-a-document-id-to-another-site-collection

Reference:

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/0f75f62b-ad25-43ea-88a4-5eb21fdc70b7/document-id-moving-across-the-site-collection?forum=sharepointsearchprevious

Best Regards,

Eric

Thanks Eric,

Afraid this is not an issue.

Our problem is, after moving all documents (export/import through powershell) to new site collection, all new created documents gets "Old Doc ID" even if I've reconfigured Doc ID settings to set up new ID.

• Edited by Sergey Pelykh 14 hours 17 minutes ago