July 2009 Entries
Part 1 – The Tools Part 2 - Exporting the Site Part 3 – Exporting the Lists Part 4 – Exporting the Site Columns and Content Types Part 5 – Wrap Up Before I begin with the wrap up portion of this post, I want to make a correction to this series. I was doing a bit of research today (quick comparisons, Joel Oleson’s take, deeper look at site definitions) on site templates, features, and site definitions and it struck me that the title of this series (Exporting a SharePoint Site into a Feature) isn’t ......
Part 1 – The Tools Part 2 - Exporting the Site Part 3 – Exporting the Lists Part 4 – Exporting the Site Columns and Content Types Part 5 – Wrap Up If nothing else, this blog post will win the award for longest title that I’ve written yet. Joking aside, It’s time to put one of the finishing stones in place for this series. So far we’ve exported the site and lists, now it’s time for the site columns and content types. The tool we’ll be using this go around is the Imtech Fields Explorer. The process ......
Part 1 – The Tools Part 2 - Exporting the Site Part 3 – Exporting the Lists Part 4 – Exporting the Site Columns and Content Types Part 5 – Wrap Up So let’s recap where we’re at with this series. Part 1 was about the tools I’ve been using to export a SharePoint site to a feature, part 2 exported the base (pages, web part settings on pages, etc) of the site template, and now part 3 will be exporting SharePoint lists into our feature. The tool we’ll be using time around is the MOSS Feature Generator ......
Part 1 – The Tools Part 2 - Exporting the Site Part 3 – Exporting the Lists Part 4 – Exporting the Site Columns and Content Types Part 5 - Wrap Up Took a little longer to get to part 2 than expected with being gone last week on vacation and client work this week. Quick recap for everyone on what we’re trying to do here. Scenario would be that you’ve already built and customized a SharePoint site using the web UI (edit page, add web part, create list, create site columns, etc.) Now we want to be able ......