Question

We have a SharePoint 2016 test site with several sub-sites.

The homepage for some of our sub-sites have the following Page Tab Banner:

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While other sub-sites have the below much more restrictive Page Tab Banner:

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What is happening here? Why does the above banner not have a page history button? Is it a permissions issue? I should have full control to the site and this sub-site... Any assistance you can provide would be very much appreciated.

EDIT1: Thank you for the responses. I cannot reply to them (Need 50 Rep), so I will reply below.

  • vinit kumar - Both sites have the same features enabled.
  • Sohail Shaikh - Is it possible to convert a Web Part Page into a Wiki Page?
  • Tally - I checked the Advanced Permissions for both sites and when I typed my name it said that I have "Full Control" to each of them.

EDIT2: I think Sohail Shaikh's answer is what I needed to understand - The first banner is for a Wiki Page and the second is for a Web Part Page.

I activated a "Wiki Page Home Page" and the new homepage had the more advanced Page Banner.

Site Settings -> Site Actions -> Manage Site Features -> Wiki Page Home Page -> Activate.

You can access the old homepage from the Site Structure:

Site Settings -> Site Administration -> Content and structure

In my case, the old Web Part homepage was called "default" and the new Wiki homepage had been placed in the "Site Pages" folder.

Was it helpful?

Solution

Below page toolbar refers to Wiki Page.

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Below page toolbar refers to Web Part Page:

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OTHER TIPS

It could be that you have different permissions in each site/sub-site.

Regarding the Page History / Versioning - it might be that in Site A versioning is enabled, whereas in Site B versioning is not in use, therefore there is no version history available.

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