Wednesday, July 29, 2009

why is the Include-Content button greyed when making a list template?

Apparently this occurs when there is a Lookup-type column in the list. Just remove this column and it should be save-able (sic) with the content. Another optin is to "de-reference" the lookup column. Do this by:

- create a new text column
- go into datasheet mode
- select the entire lookup column and copy/paste into the new text column

The reason this occurs is because a lookup column works by referencing an interal generated name for the list it references.

The "instantiate a template" function cannot recreate the lookup column field (since the referred-to-list may not even exist where the new list is instantiated), so they chose to disable saving the content if this field is present.

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