Comments on: SharePoint Alerts Export Import add-in Part – 1

By: bertrik

bertrik — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:35:03 +0000

I’ve tried to implement your great solution for exporting and importing alerts since I need this solution for exporting and importing alerts together with stsadm export and import for site collections.

Like Grbeatty said at november 17th: I’d manage to create the export xml with all the alerts using your AlertsSave.aspx example.
But I was not able to create the import due your blogpost.

Could you give a link to a AlertsImport.aspx like you did for the AlertsSave? I’m missing this link in your 3rd part of your blog about this solution.

Thanks in advance

By: zieglers

zieglers — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:38:04 +0000

Could you please contact me from tigger_sphenx@yahoo.de? Thx.

zieglers

By: grbeatty

grbeatty — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:45:17 +0000

Thanks for the puting that up. I have to be honest that I’m having a hard time getting my code right though. I almost hate to ask but can you just stick up a link to download the code like you did for the first one? I did manage to get this added to my application mgmt tab though so that was a triumph for me. Regardless, thanks again!

By: zieglers

zieglers — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:03:40 +0000

Here is the 3rd part of this article – Alerts Import into Webs.

http://zieglers.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/sharepoint-alerts-export-import-add-in-part-%e2%80%93-3/

zieglers

By: grbeatty

grbeatty — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:54:27 +0000

Thanks very much! Development isn’t my strong point. We currently have about 600 sites sitting in one single site collection. The number of alerts varries widely by site. One of the largest we have found has roughly 200 alerts on just one subsite; they setup one for every user. I know there are a number of other sites that have done similar things.
Regards,
Beatty

By: zieglers

zieglers — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:42:33 +0000

Thanks for your feedback. Seems like i forgot to write 2nd part for this post. I’ll try to write it in the following days. Since I developed this add-on myself, I have the code and all other related details.

How many general alerts and search alerts do you have approx. in total?
I also stress-tested this add-on for 100K alerts and 1000 users. Import operation for 100K alerts takes less than 30min.

zieglers

By: grbeatty

grbeatty — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:11:22 +0000

Great information! My company is facing the split of a large site collection into multiple smaller ones and this will be perfect since we loose alerts with the export/import that has to be used. But, do you have the code/information on how to import the alerts back in? The export is working great for us but I don’t see the second half. Additionally I haven’t been successful at adding the sub section as a menu in the Application Mgmt tab. Do you have those instructions as well? Thanks!