Question

I am trying to export a survey to a different site collection in MOSS 2007. I have tried to export the survey as a template and create the survey based on that template. The catch is that I need to preserve the metadata about the survey. (ie. who submitted each submission.). When I use this method it appears as if I submitted each survey item.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

For a one-time thing you can use Gary Lapointes stsadm extensions to import/export list: http://blog.falchionconsulting.com/index.php/2007/09/importexportcopy-lists/

Exporting

Here’s an example of how to export the
Documents list from the root site
collection:

 stsadm –o gl-exportlist -url
http://intranet/Documents/Forms/AllItems.aspx"
-filename "c:\docs" -includeusersecurity -versions 4 -nofilecompression

Importing

Here’s an example of how to import the
Documents list that we exported above
and re-target any links pointing to
the original documents so that they
now point to the new documents (note
that just like the built in import
operation if you specify
nofilecompression for the export you
must also specify it for the import):

     stsadm –o gl-importlist -url "http://teamsites/" -filename
 "c:\docs" -includeusersecurity
 -updateversions 2 -nofilecompression -retargetlinks -sourceurl "http://intranet/Documents/Forms/AllItems.aspx"

Note: To use these commands You must download and install them.