Anirudh Gupta has a nice blog post/screencast on how you can display Twitter, Facebook and other social media feeds on a SharePoint 2013 page using SharePoint 2013’s OpenSearch. I am re-blogging it here so that I know where to find it.
Anirudh Gupta has a nice blog post/screencast on how you can display Twitter, Facebook and other social media feeds on a SharePoint 2013 page using SharePoint 2013’s OpenSearch. I am re-blogging it here so that I know where to find it.
This post is based on Gitolekha’s blog post with added explanations and tool-set especially for finding list GUIDs and how you can alternatively convert cab files to stp files.
I have a parent list called Tracking and a child list called Org i.e. in the source site. My parent list, Tracking has a lookup column called orgcode. A child list called Org has the column orgcode.
I have several data already populated in the parent list. I was asked to migrate the Tracking list with its data from its current location to a diffrent site/could be a different farm or web application. The client do not want any data loss.
You might think saving the Tracking list as template with data will do the trick. Unfortunately, saving the Tracking list as template with data and exporting it into your destination site will only have partial data. That means lookup column data gets lost in the process. This problem occurs because list template does look up on a table using GUID. In creating a list template and exporting to a different site this GUID changes, hence it is no longer able to retain the values.
This is how I tackled this issue:
Now import the edited stp file i.e. NewTrackingList.stp into your destinatiion site and create a new list instance. If you check your newly created parent list, you will see all column data intact with lookup column included.