Comments on: Copy item from one list to another, using Sharepoint designer workflow

By: Meenakshi Sundaram

Meenakshi Sundaram — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:42:11 +0000

Hi Vijai,
Thanks for the great Info. This made my work much easier.. but still am facing a problem in this.? how can i get teh date difference in this. I don’t find any arithematic involved here. Actually my aim is to copy items to another list, where for items that are created before 3 months. The base list should have only 3 months’ data and the backup list should have all those created before 3 months. Hence i need to perform a datediff where i dont find any option to do.?

By: Tendayi

Tendayi — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:42:54 +0000

I have been unable to get the workflow to update the already existing item within the list (ie if the source list is edited) it sees it as a new item, so the destination list is popultaed with numerous versions of the same thing i have tried everything i can think of to get this work but cant seem to figure it out. Do you have any ideas bar unticking the new item work flow box or viewing as xml and changing the overwrite function from false to true?

By: G Vijai Kumar

G Vijai Kumar — Tue, 25 May 2010 06:13:37 +0000

@ Cally: The above workflow only starts when the item is added and after the conditions satisfies, you have modify the workflow to get update the already existing items

By: cally

cally — Mon, 24 May 2010 03:11:02 +0000

hi..but what if we modify the list..does the destination one gets updated..if not..how do we work around this

By: David McVey

David McVey — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 02:41:02 +0000

I’m trying to copy an infopath form from the source list to a destination list but I need to have security imposed so that everyone can access the source list but not the destination list. My SPD workflow fails due to users not having permissions to the destination list. Any thoughts on temporarily allowing access to copy using SPD then removing the access? Using InfoPath 2007 and MOSS 2007

By: G Vijai Kumar

G Vijai Kumar — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 07:12:26 +0000

@Naresh: Work flow starts when an item is created, try the programmatic way explained on the link http://www.fivenumber.com/copy-sharepoint-list-items-from-one-site-to-another-programmatically/ for copying the past created items, also I have posted a comment on updating created, modified and modified by columns too
Thanks for looking into the post

By: Naresh

Naresh — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:02:20 +0000

H Vijay, can we apply this work flow to all of the items with in a sharepoint Library like a loop through all the items even if the item is a result of past upload.

By: G Vijai Kumar

G Vijai Kumar — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:09:04 +0000

@ Andrew: Thanks for looking into the post, if you want to copy list items from one site to different site you can accomplish this programmatically, I have already posted an article on this, please have a look into http://www.fivenumber.com/copy-sharepoint-list-items-from-one-site-to-another-programmatically/

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:04:47 +0000

This is great! How can this be done with two lists on two different sites?

By: Catherine

Catherine — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:57:33 +0000

when using ‘copy list item’ in designer, 2 fields (identical names, types, descriptions and settings) will not copy to another list. All other fields do. Any thoughts…. things to look for?