Import of data is the automated or semi-automated input of data sets between different software applications. It involves "translating" from the format used in one application into that used by the other.

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Physical to Virtual Migration of SharePoint Machine

We are about to conduct a full virtual migration. Among the physical machines to be migrated is our SharePoint server, which hosts two SP sites. I know very little about SharePoint and I've only ...
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Importing/uploading files from file share to SP 2010 Doc Lib using CSV

Can someone please provide a good link (or if you already have a powershell working) that can import files from file share into SharePoint document library using a cvs flat file. I have about 20 ...
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SharePoint 2007 Web-application is getting crashed due to memory leak

We decided to duplicate an existing web-application (for Podcasting kit), which has site collection only at root level, so created a new web-application (in the same DB instance) and imported (stsadm ...
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Import-SPWeb with Overwrite always appends

I'm exporting a Custom List from one SharePoint instance and importing into another. The documentation says I should be able to use UpdateVersions with Overwrite to remove all items and then insert ...
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Import Summary Links Collection

I am trying to insert summary links into a custom content type. PublishingPage newPage = publishingWeb.GetPublishingPages().Add(filename, layout); newPage.Title = page.NewPage.Title; ...
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How to import one single row of data from excel to one list item in a SharePoint 2010 list?

I have a problem where we want users to attach a file to a new item and the SharePoint list will automatically read on row or column of data (maybe 20 cells-worth of data) and populate some additional ...
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SharePoint 2010 - Bulk Upload List Data that contains Managed Metadata (Terms)

I have a list that contains a few columns of type Managed Metadata and want to upload a bunch of data (records) to the list. I understand that you can't do this within the Datasheet View of the list ...
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How to import the data from a Google Public Data Explorer into SharePoint 2010 out-of-box charts

using the new Google PDE I was wondering if there was a way of importing the data into my nicely formatted Chart Web Parts in sharepoint 2010.
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How do I import posts into a SharePoint 2007 blog?

I had a blog on our 2010 installation but have replaced it with a blog on our 2007 instance (because it's public). I want to move some of the posts from the 2010 blog into the 2007 one but seem to be ...
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How to import multiple excel columns into a single metadata column?

Consider: I work for an organization that has eight service territories. We have a series of procedural documents that can apply to one territory up to all eight territories, and I am attempting to ...
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SharePoint 2013 Site Collection Move Owner to Group

I am in process of migrating our WSS 3.0 installation to 2013 and I am at the point where I need to break the single site collection down into more manageable sizes and I have a script that ...
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How do I import a spreadsheet on an already imported spreadsheet?

We have a daily requirement to import a spreadsheet on an already imported spreadsheet within sharepoint. This is to assist with daily and consistent updates, it would take too much time to add them ...
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Import-Spweb is changing the user id if the user does not exist in the organisation anymore

We had to restore a list (which has versionsing enabled) in our PROD enviornment SP 2010 August CU 2012. We used the following command metioned below: Import-SPWeb http://example.com/projects/myList ...
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Importing a list from one visual studio project to another

I have sp project (say project a) in visual studio that is supposed to deploy the sp solution to my website (say that its running at http://localhost:xxxx/). My goal would be to add the list ...
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Import excel spreadsheet with photos

I am trying to import an excel spreadsheet with photos, It import without problems, except that it removes the photos. What am I doing wrong?
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Can anyone please tell me why I am getting parent does not exists

I am running following powershell to import a list into my own site collection so i can test some piece (like retain modified date from a export), etc. I keep getting The file Lists/Sales Status ...
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Excel -> SP List with correct column types?

Are there solutions available for importing an Excel to SharePoint with SharePoint column types? Or has someone tried this with the help of OpenXml (with a custom import web part with default values, ...
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Importing site gives “Security check failed in OnFolderImport” error

I'm using the SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard (2.8 beta) and have successfully exported a site. Now I'm trying to import the site and it gives me the following messages in the log and isn't ...
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How do I migrate a CVS module to Sharepoint

We have been using CVS for versioning of our extensive library of requirements documents. However, we have recently started using SharePoint for almost all project documentation and would like to move ...
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List Does Not Exist Error After Importing

I have a set of sites that are using one of the Fab-40 templates and we are upgrading to 2013 and as you all know, none of the templates are compatible with 2013. So, I'm having to export the content ...
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How to import a document as a multi-line text metadata field

I have a little bit of a challenge I'm trying to solve. We have a library of documents that we want to make available as a list. We'll use the "preview view", with the document title (as a hyperlink ...
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How to import an excel spreadsheet into SharePoint Assets web database?

I would like to utilize the SharePoint Assets Web Database to track approximately 700 computers we have at our site. I currently have the information in an Excel 2007 spreadsheet, and would like to ...
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How do I export Sharepoint Project tasks List to Microsoft Project 2010?

I would like to be able to Export items from Project Tasks List (Sharepoint 2010 Enterprise) to Microsoft Project 2010 Standard just like the export to excel function. Would also like to be able to ...
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How to create a sharepoint 2010 template that will dynamically update its child sites

I recently created a site in Sharepoint 2010, and I have saved it as a template. I'm able to apply this template to new sites, which is great. I can then add new data to each site individually. ...
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How do I get my site to be usable as a template in a new site?

I made a site, and I want to be able to use this site as a template for new ones. My goal is to get all of the layout of the page onto a new site, but leave the quick links bar alone on the new site ...
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User Profile Import PictureUrl from BCS after SP 2010 SP1

I've looked all over, and read through a few blogs on how you can map a string url into the PictureURL field in the UPS from a BCS connection. Unfortunately it looks like sp1 and on have broken these ...
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Import Excel as List Fails

I have an Excel Spreadsheet that I want to import into SharePoint 2010 as a list but upon doing so I receive the following errors. As a work around I have saved the spreadsheet as csv and then ...
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Import from Excel Spreadsheet works in IE6 not IE8

I'm having an issue in SharePoint 2007 in IE 8 where, when creating a new List using Excel Spreadsheet Import, I get redirected to a 403 error. This feature works in IE 6 but not IE 8. Can anyone ...