I am after replicating (synchronizing) SharePoint lists across sites. The reason for this is partly down to our initial SharePoint design meaning that we cannot move large parts of our implementation to achieve what I need to.
Basically I have created a small CRM (ish) system using lookups and custom lists/views however one of the lists we are looking up to is on a different site meaning some of the features which I need to use are unavailable.
The way I have been doing this so far is having a copy of the list on both sites; I then have a temp list with no content on both sites as well. I am using a codeplex web part which makes a copy of an entire item across to the temp list on adding to or updating the list.
Once the item is in the list, I then have an event handler on the list which catches adding, updating etc and then fires a workflow to compare and copy the required data into the list using the item ID as a key.
This works ok if not a massive inefficient over complication for what seems like a simple task. This method also has its drawbacks in that adding and updating an item works fine, however deleting an item from one list makes no changes to the other.
What I am after is either an idea of how to achieve this or a third party proven web part/application which does this. If anybody could help that would be appreciated.
ps. Didn't know if this was better suited to the coding section or here so I’m going to start here.
Thanks.
Basically I have created a small CRM (ish) system using lookups and custom lists/views however one of the lists we are looking up to is on a different site meaning some of the features which I need to use are unavailable.
The way I have been doing this so far is having a copy of the list on both sites; I then have a temp list with no content on both sites as well. I am using a codeplex web part which makes a copy of an entire item across to the temp list on adding to or updating the list.
Once the item is in the list, I then have an event handler on the list which catches adding, updating etc and then fires a workflow to compare and copy the required data into the list using the item ID as a key.
This works ok if not a massive inefficient over complication for what seems like a simple task. This method also has its drawbacks in that adding and updating an item works fine, however deleting an item from one list makes no changes to the other.
What I am after is either an idea of how to achieve this or a third party proven web part/application which does this. If anybody could help that would be appreciated.
ps. Didn't know if this was better suited to the coding section or here so I’m going to start here.
Thanks.