Question

I was wondering how can I programmatically copy all the discussion items from one Sharepoint team discussion to another?

I have tried retrieving the team discussion items from an existing site as SPListItem. Although I could find the Team Discussion list, but I could not red the retrieved items by assigning them as SPListItems. Moreover, team discussion looked like it has a lot of fields that requires a lot of other information to be available e.g. users, threads, topics, etc. It certainly looks different than other ordinary lists. Would a simple copying of all the fields be sufficient, or there is more to it?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Internally, discussion boards are standard SharePoint lists. The most likely source of confusion is that topic is a subtype of folder – as long as you maintain that folder structure you should be able to copy items between lists.