Microsoft KB Archive/843520

= Values of a custom property whose type is set to Date are missing after you use the Spin.exe tool to import documents from SharePoint Portal Server 2001 to SharePoint Portal Server 2003 =

Article ID: 843520

Article Last Modified on 3/25/2005

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003

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SYMPTOMS
Consider the following scenario. You migrate documents and metadata from Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2001 to Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003. To do this, you use the Document Library Export Tool (Spout.exe) to export content from a Web Storage System-based document library in SharePoint Portal Server 2001. Then, you use the Document Library Import Tool (Spin.exe) to import the content to a Microsoft SQL Server-based document library in SharePoint Portal Server 2003.

Some of the documents that you migrate have a custom document profile property whose type is set to Date. When you view the documents in the document library after you import the documents to SharePoint Portal Server 2003, the column that is associated with the custom property is imported to the document library. However, the column does not contain any data. The values of the custom property are missing.



CAUSE
Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services does not support the promotion or the demotion of custom properties whose type is set to Date. Therefore, custom properties that use the Date type are not imported to SharePoint Portal Server 2003 if you use the Spin.exe tool to import documents from SharePoint Portal Server 2001 to SharePoint Portal Server 2003.



MORE INFORMATION
The SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Document Library Migration Tools, Spout.exe and Spin.exe, are tools that you can use to migrate documents and metadata from SharePoint Portal Server Web Storage System–based document libraries to SharePoint Portal Server 2003 SQL Server-based document libraries. To obtain the SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Document Library Migration Tools, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=feea83b4-7f46-4040-bce2-5341e5c1b107&displaylang=en

For more information about how to migrate documents and metadata from SharePoint Portal Server Web Storage System–based document libraries to SharePoint Portal Server 2003 SQL Server–based document libraries, see the SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Advanced Migration Scenarios white paper. To view this white paper, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4925b907-0dd8-4be0-af9f-02c8543f47c9&displaylang=en

Additional query words: SPS spin spout

Keywords: kbtshoot kbconfig KB843520

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