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3.12.10

Copying ListViewWebparts between sites with their own custom views

In a new example of what I call "Guerrilla Coding" I had a couple of hours to develop a little program to copy hundreds of webpart pages full of ListViewWebparts, each one with its own custom view. I don't know if you feel the same, but I start to tremble every time I have to touch anything related to the ListViewWebpart

The ListViewWebparts create in the parent list a hidden view when we customize their view. This means that if you want to copy the webparts to a new site you'll have to copy the views from the parent list to its destination equivalent, I don't think I'm explaining my point well... I'd better paste the code...

What I do in this code snippet is copying the webparts from every origin file to the destination one giving them a special treatment if they are LisvViewWebpart which is enough for the application I need.

private static void CopyWebParts(SPFile origFile, SPFile destFile)
        {
            SPLimitedWebPartManager origWpm = origFile.GetLimitedWebPartManager(PersonalizationScope.Shared);
            SPLimitedWebPartManager destWpm = destFile.GetLimitedWebPartManager(PersonalizationScope.Shared);

            DeleteWebparts(destWpm);

            foreach (Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.WebPart webpart in origWpm.WebParts)
            {
                Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.WebPart newWp;

                if (webpart is ListViewWebPart)
                    newWp = UpdateListViewWebPart(webpart as ListViewWebPart, origFile.GetWeb(), destFile.GetWeb());
                else
                    newWp = webpart;

                destWpm.AddWebPart(newWp, Common.ConvertToString(newWp.ZoneID), newWp.ZoneIndex);
            }

            try
            {
                destFile.Publish("Added Web Parts");
                destFile.Approve("Web Part additions approved");
            }
            catch { }
        }

        private static ListViewWebPart UpdateListViewWebPart(ListViewWebPart webpart, SPWeb origWeb, SPWeb destWeb)
        {
            ListViewWebPart newWebPart = webpart; //yeah I know.

            string oldListName = webpart.ListName;
            string oldViewGuid = webpart.ViewGuid;

            SPList OrigList = origWeb.Lists.GetList(new Guid(oldListName), true);
            
            SPList DestList = destWeb.Lists[OrigList.Title];

            SPView OrigView = OrigList.GetView(new Guid(oldViewGuid));
            SPView DestView = DestList.Views.Add(string.Empty, OrigView.ViewFields.ToStringCollection(), OrigView.Query,
                OrigView.RowLimit, OrigView.Paged, OrigView.DefaultView);
            DestView.Hidden = OrigView.Hidden;
            DestView.Scope = OrigView.Scope;
            DestView.ApplyStyle(destWeb.ViewStyles.StyleByID(Convert.ToInt32(OrigView.StyleID)));

            DestView.Update();

            newWebPart.ViewGuid = DestView.ID.ToString("B").ToUpper();
            newWebPart.ListName = destWeb.Lists[OrigList.Title].ID.ToString("B").ToUpper();


            return newWebPart;
        }
And against all odds it worked, I hope I don't have to deal with this webparts for a while.

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