Notes Migrator for SharePoint is capable of migrating various pieces of document metadata to SharePoint. For example when you enable the “Preserve Created Modified dates” “Preserve Created Modified identities” “Map Document Level Security” and “Preserve Response Hierarchies” features, the appropriate document metadata is translated and used while writing documents to SharePoint.
While these capabilities are very powerful (and very popular), we occasionally get a requests to override the metadata that is used to accomplish them. For example, a Notes application may maintain an “EffectiveAuthor” field that the user wants to be mapped to author names in SharePoint.
We have added this capability to Notes Migrator for SharePoint 5.0. We now allow users to add specially-named fields to their source data definitions to override key pieces of metadata. The special names are as follows:
|
Field name |
Data type |
Notes |
|
{OverrideAuthor} |
STRING |
Created By name – will be fed into the usual user mapping process |
|
{OverrideLastModifier} |
STRING |
Modified By name – will be fed into the usual user mapping process |
|
{OverrideCreatedDate} |
DATE |
Created Date |
|
{OverrideModifiedDate} |
DATE |
Last Modified Date |
|
{OverrideDocumentId} |
STRING |
Document UNID – Used in duplicate document detection and reassembling parent/response hierarchies |
|
{OverrideParentId} |
STRING |
Parent UNID – Used in reassembling parent/response hierarchies |
|
{OverrideDocumentWriters} |
STRING ARRAY |
Writer Names – will be fed into the usual user mapping process |
|
{OverrideDocumentReaders} |
STRING ARRAY |
Reader Names – will be fed into the usual user mapping process |
|
{OverrideDocumentUrl} |
STRING |
Url to document – Used in log files and Link Tracking Service |
As shown in the following screenshots, you can create these special source fields to grab values from data Items, dynamic Formulas, view columns, etc.
Note that you do NOT need to map these data field to anything on the mapping tab. The fact that they exist in the source data definition indicates that the designer intended the values to be overridden.
Note that this new feature is available in all Notes Migrator for SharePoint clients (not just the Migration Console).