Tuesday 27 March 2007

SharePoint 2007: List Migration / Export List for re-importing to another site

The stsadm.exe works mostly well for complete sites + subsites. However, if you want to export just lists, stsadm will not allow you to export. Therefore to migrate i.e. export and import a SharePoint list you need to do the following (painful) procedure. Create a template from the List you want to export (and include the content in the template), download a copy of the .stp template file created. Then upload the stp file to the List templates and create the list from the template you have just created. I have skipped the details, jsut describing the genaral steps which need to be done.

This post is also quite interesting if you want to retain lookup information.
http://mindsharpblogs.com/todd/archive/2005/11/11/853.aspx

If anyone finds an easier way of doing this, please give me a shout!