Real-World SharePoint Experiences by John Powell

In SharePoint 2003, each area had a built-in list "Listings" which was used to maintain links between content in different portal areas as well as external links.  This was somewhat of a flawed design in that listings could very easily become broken if the content or area it points to is renamed, moved or deleted.  But that is a topic for another blog post on listing validation.  This article gets into the details of exactly how a SPS 2003 Listing is migrated to MOSS 2007.

A list named "Listings" is created in each site.  This is no longer a built-in list; in other words, you can delete or rename it if you choose.

A content type, "Listing" (which inherits from the Link content type), is created at the site-collection, and the Listings list is set to use that content type.

Here is the definition of the Listing content type:

If you edit one of the listing items, you can see how it was migrated.  Note the url has been fixed up with the more readable MOSS url and the description contains the cryptic SPS 2003 url.

Any page that contained a SPS 2003 Grouped Listings web part is replaced with a Content Query web part in the corresponding MOSS page.  The web part is named "Grouped Listings," but that's just the title.  It's a Content Query web part.

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In SharePoint 2003, each area had a built-in list "Listings" which was used to maintain links between content in different portal areas as well as external links.  This was somewhat of a flawed design in that listings could very easily become broken if the content or area it points to is renamed, moved or deleted.  But that is a topic for another blog post on listing validation.  This article gets into the details of exactly how a SPS 2003 Listing is migrated to MOSS 2007.

A list named "Listings" is created in each site.  This is no longer a built-in list; in other words, you can delete or rename it if you choose.

A content type, "Listing" (which inherits from the Link content type), is created at the site-collection, and the Listings list is set to use that content type.

Here is the definition of the Listing content type:

If you edit one of the listing items, you can see how it was migrated.  Note the url has been fixed up with the more readable MOSS url and the description contains the cryptic SPS 2003 url.

Any page that contained a SPS 2003 Grouped Listings web part is replaced with a Content Query web part in the corresponding MOSS page.  The web part is named "Grouped Listings," but that's just the title.  It's a Content Query web part.

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