How to find out the site collection ID

A SharePoint Site is a collection of pages, lists, and libraries configured for the purpose of achieving an express goal. A site may contain sub-sites, and those sites may contain further sub-sites. Typically, sites need to be created from scratch, but sites can also be created according to pre-defined templates that provide packaged functionality. Examples of Site templates in SharePoint include: Blogs, MySites, collaboration (team) sites, document workspaces, groupwork sites, and meeting workspaces.

Sites have navigation, themes/branding, custom permissions, workflows, and have the ability to be configured or customized in a number of ways. In order to achieve a greater degree of maintainability, sites typically inherit site-level settings from their parent sites.

While working on one SharePoint issue in collaboration with the SQL, I need to run a SQL query against a specific site collection by using its ID. So you must be aware how to find out the ID of a site collection. Its takes some time to find out the answer but would like to share with all of you so that you can take the benefit of the same and your time will be saved, Thank you

Here is my analysis regarding the same:
1. Open the Central Administration
2. Application Management
3. SharePoint Site Management
4. Site collection quotas and locks
5. Select the appropriate site collection and you will get the ID of that specific site collection on top of the browser.

If you have any queries/questions regarding the mentioned information then please let me know.
I would be more than happy to help you as well as resolves your issues, Thank you

How to find out the ID of a subsite

A subsite is a single SharePoint site within a site collection. A subsite can inherit permissions and navigation structure from its parent site or these can be specified and managed independently. Creation of subsites can be delegated to users of a site collection, but creation of site collections must be performed by a service administrator. A sub-site can also have sub-sites of its own. Because every site below the top-level site is actually a sub-site, each sub-site is generally called simply a site.

There might be a situation arise in which you need to find out the ID of the subsite. I had spend some time on this to debug and got the solution. Please refer the following steps and use your subsite ID to fulfill your project requirements, Thank youJ

How to find out the ID of a subsite

1. Save the current site as site template [.STP extension]

2. Save it to disk somewhere.

3. Now, navigate to that location and rename the file to .CAB extension.

4. Extract the CAB file and find the manifest.xml file.

5. Now, in the file check for the site ID/TemplateID string and get the value.

6. Navigate to end of this post for the TemplateID to Name mapping.

If you have any queries/questions regarding the above mentioned information then please let me know.I would be more than happy to help you as well as resolves your issues

Reference:

1. Determining Between SharePoint Site Collections and Sub-Sites

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sgoodyear/archive/2009/07/25/determining-between-sharepoint-site-collections-and-sub-sites.aspx

2. What is a SharePoint site or subsite?-

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint-designer-help/create-a-sharepoint-site-HA010131447.aspx

3. Videos-How to create subsites in SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 207-

How to create subsites in SharePoint 2010 and 2007 - YouTube

How to find out site ID

How to find out the ID of a site collection, subsite and list

While working on one ticket, I did some research and fetched some things regarding ID’s.

Site collection, Subsite and List are important entities which are widely used on day to day basis.

There are times when you need to find out the Id/Guid of a site collection, subsite or list as per the project requirements, analysis of guids will be very useful to resolve many issues in SharePoint environments.

Here is my analysis regarding this as How to find out the ID/GUID of the above mentioned entities:

How to find out the ID of a site collection:

1.     Open the Central Administration

2.     Application Management

3.     SharePoint Site Management

4.     site collection quotas and locks

5.     Select the appropriate site collection (Please refer the following screenshot) and you will get the ID of that specific site collection.

How to find out the ID of a subsite:

1.     Save the current site as site template [.STP extension]

2.     Save it to disk somewhere.

3.     Now, navigate to that location and rename the file to .CAB extension.

4.     Extract the CAB file and find the manifest.xml file.

5.     Now, in the file check for the site ID/TemplateID string and get the value.

6.     Navigate to end of this post for the TemplateID to Name mapping.

How to find out the List ID:

1.     Navigate to the SharePoint list using the browser.

2.     Select the Settings + List Settings menu command.

3.     Copy the URL from the browser address bar into Notepad. It will look something like:

https://SharePoint2007/MOSSADMIN/_layouts/listedit.aspx?List=%7B47F2F5E2%2D6474%2D4929%2DB986%2D64BBE801C97A%7D  

Delete everything before and including “List=”.

Change “%7B” to “{”

Change all “%2D” to “-“

Chnage “%7D” to “}”

You are now left with the Id:

{47F2F5E2-6474-4929-B986-64BBE801C97A}

List of MOSS 2007 Template ID Information

0 - GLOBAL (SetupPath=global) - "Global template"

1 - STS - "windows SharePoint Services Site", "Team Site", "Blank Site", "Document Workspace"

2 - MPS - "Basic Meeting Workspace", "Blank Meeting Workspace", "Decision Meeting Workspace", "Social Meeting Workspace", "Multipage Meeting Workspace"

3 - CENTRALADMIN - "Central Admin Site"

4 - WIKI - "Wiki Site"

7 - BDR - "Document Center"

9 - BLOG - "Blog"

20 - SPS (OBSOLETE) - "SharePoint Portal Server Site"

21 - SPSPERS - "SharePoint Portal Server Personal Space"

22 - SPSMSITE - "Personalization Site"

30 - SPSTOC (OBSOLETE) - "Contents area Template"

31 - SPSTOPIC (OBSOLETE) - "Topic area template"

32 - SPSNEWS (OBSOLETE) - "News area template"

33 - SPSNHOME (SubWebOnly) - "News Home template"

34 - SPSSITES - "Site Directory area template"

36 - SPSCOMMU (OBSOLETE) - "Community area template"

38 - SPSREPORTCENTER - "Report Center Site"

39 - CMSPUBLISHING (SetupPath=SiteTemplates\PUBLISHING) - "Publishing and Team Collaboration Site"

40 - OSRV (SetupPath=SiteTemplates\OSRV) - "Shared Services Administration Site"

47 - SPSPORTAL - "Corporate Intranet Site"

50 - SRCHCEN - "Search Center"

51 - PROFILES - "Profiles"

52 - BLANKINTERNETCONTAINER - "Internet Presence Web Site"

53 - BLANKINTERNET - "Publishing Site", "Press Releases Site", "Publishing Site"

54 - SPSMSITEHOST - "My Site Host"

90 - SRCHCENTERLITE (SetupPath=SiteTemplates\SRCHCENTERLITE) - "Search Center Lite"

6221 - PWA (SetupPath=SiteTemplates\PWA) - "Project Web Access Site"

6215 - PWS (SetupPath=SiteTemplates\PWS) - "Project Workspace"

14483 - OFFILE - "Records Repository", "Records Repository"

If you have any queries/questions regarding the above mentioned information then please let me know.

I would be more than happy to help you as well as resolves your issues J Thank you