Nice one Aaron :-) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron Cunnington Sent: Tuesday, 1 April 2008 2:47 PM To: listserver@ozMOSS.com Subject: RE: [OzMOSS] Importing 2003 discussion boards to moss
We had the same issue, however, by saving a discussion board as a template the content of the board is formatted as XML and can be semi-automatically imported. To get the XML data: 1. Save the board as a template: a. Modify settings and columns. b. Save discussion board as template 2. Click through to the templates list and download the resulting STP file. 3. Change the STP extension to CAB (a cab file is like a ZIP file). 4. Open the CAB file and extract the manifest.xml file it contains. This has the posts in XML format. This approach will work not only for discussion boards (although it is particularly useful for them) but for other lists, too. We have created a custom application that will import data contained in a manifest file. The application must run on the MOSS server, this allowed us to maintain all the data and metadata (created by, date, modified etc) into the new MOSS environment. Cheers Aaron -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Mulholland Sent: Tuesday, 1 April 2008 11:28 AM To: listserver@ozMOSS.com Subject: RE: [OzMOSS] Importing 2003 discussion boards to moss Yeah sorry about that. trying again Hi guys I am migrating a portal 2003 to another server and in the process taking the chance to move to sharepoint 2007 on the new server. Since the existing server has only on web app with very small amount of content i have exported most of the content to spreadsheets and imported. However, i have 2 discussion forums which I am finding a pain to migrate. Essentially what i tried was to save the site as a template with content included and import that into the moss web app as it doesn’t allow you to export to spreadsheet. If I go to site settings and upload the template, even after restarting iis the template never shows up when i go to build a new site with it. I did manage to use the stsadm tool to import the template however when i select it for my site I get and error saying the template is invalid. I think this may be because it is being saved as a list template not a site template. Unfortunately in 2003 you can seem to edit anything in the datasheet view and you can only sort lists or links etc. I would have hoped that importing these discussion boards was fairly straight forward. I have googled around for a while and haven’t been able to come up with any good info. I'd be very interested in anyone’s feedback or help. Thanks Greg This is an email from Fujitsu Australia Limited, ABN 19 001 011 427. It is confidential to the ordinary user of the email address to which it was addressed and may contain copyright and/or legally privileged information. No one else may read, print, store, copy or forward all or any of it or its attachments. If you receive this email in error, please return to sender. Thank you. If you do not wish to receive commercial email messages from Fujitsu Australia Limited, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com
