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August 27, 2008

Copy List Items between Sites

Filed under: SharePoint — sharepointdiva @ 6:50 pm
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Steps will need to be run by SharePoint Administrator:

  1. Download Useful Sharepoint Designer Custom Workflow Activities
  2. Extract all files in the archive to a singe location.
  3. Run setup.exe
  4. Go to Central Administration -> Application Management -> Manage Web Application Features and activate the feature for desired web applications (usually it’s Sharepoint – 80 or Sharepoint – 443).

To create workflow:

Open up Sharepoint Designer, connect to your site and create a new workflow: 


Action: Copy List Item Extended 


Choose List Item “Current Item”


To list at this URL


Leave option to “Overwrite existing items”


Use variable (rename it to be clearer) to store ID.


I don’t know where that can be used yet since there isn’t an Update List Item Extended. Maybe that’s for a future enhancement or for those that can extend the project code.

Click Finish.

Open Calendar Item and select Workflows:


Start the workflow:



Go back into the workflows on the calendar entry to see the workflow history:


Once you’ve verified that the workflow works manually, you can change it to run automatically on item add or change.

7 Comments »

  1. Evey time you run the workflow a item is added !!!
    How to prevent this? How update only the same record?
    How to use the variable storing Item id?

    Comment by Rmayne — December 2, 2008 @ 12:25 pm | Reply

    • We have the same problem. Did you ever find a solution?

      Comment by Anonymous — August 12, 2009 @ 2:55 pm | Reply

      • I’m having the same problem? Has anyone a solution?

        Comment by Steve — August 26, 2009 @ 3:08 am

      • I don’t believe you can, this application appears to be only used to push items from one list to another not to keep those items synchronized.

        Comment by HVandesa — August 26, 2009 @ 3:20 pm

  2. Hi there, the workflow looks excatly what I need. I downloaded , executed (setup) & activated the feature & yet, I can’t see the workflow in my SharePoint designer. Is there any thing I can do?

    Thx

    Comment by Ofer Carmeli — March 8, 2009 @ 7:50 am | Reply

    • Have you added the .ACTIONS file in to the …12\TEMPLATE\1033\Workflow directory and added <authorizedType Assembly=”…” in to the web config of the virtural diretory of your site?

      Comment by Anonymous — May 8, 2009 @ 12:07 pm | Reply

  3. I just spun my wheels for about 1hr with this. Do NOT use this to copy Calendar items. It creates dupes when you make an edit vs. updating/overwriting the existing item.

    Comment by Marc — June 18, 2009 @ 6:40 pm | Reply


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