Agreed, agreed! And there should be an easy way to either lock them down or reparent them in the event they become orphaned through misadventure!
From: ozmoss-boun...@ozmoss.com [mailto:ozmoss-boun...@ozmoss.com] On Behalf Of Daniel W. Brown Sent: Tuesday, 3 November 2009 8:52 AM To: ozMOSS Subject: RE: Content Types - Exporting and importing Ø For future reference, the predicament you currently find yourself in is precisely why Site Columns should always be used for these purposes. Their early should either be functionality to create a content type from a list .. or my preference get rid of the ability to even HAVE "free range" column. Content Types should be just how it's done :P From: ozmoss-boun...@ozmoss.com [mailto:ozmoss-boun...@ozmoss.com] On Behalf Of Paul Noone Sent: Tuesday, 3 November 2009 8:22 AM To: ozMOSS Subject: RE: Content Types - Exporting and importing Mike, if you're not that keen on coding you can grab SPSource<http://spsource.codeplex.com/> to suck down the columns as XML schema definitions for re-use in a Site Column feature<http://blogit.create.pt/blogs/andrevala/archive/2008/03/26/SharePoint-2007-Deployment_3A00_-Site-Column-Features.aspx>. Writing a site column feature is a good first step to developing in MOSS as it's fairly straightforward. If SPSource seems a little too geeky then you can do the same thing with SharePoint Manager<http://www.codeplex.com/spm>. Just drill down to the fields in the list, switch to schema view and copy out the XML to an elements manifest. For future reference, the predicament you currently find yourself in is precisely why Site Columns should always be used for these purposes. Regards, Paul Online Developer, ICT CEO Sydney From: ozmoss-boun...@ozmoss.com [mailto:ozmoss-boun...@ozmoss.com] On Behalf Of MacDonald, Mike Sent: Tuesday, 3 November 2009 2:46 AM To: ozMOSS Subject: Content Types - Exporting and importing I created a list with A LOT of columns - now I want to save it as a content type so that the fields are accessible when creating new content types at the top level on other sites. Is that possible ?
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