SharePoint List transfer can copy and move SharePoint documents or list items between lists, libraries or sites freely to help SharePoint end users easily transfer document and list items in SharePoint. Furthermore, the useful SharePoint web part can preserve the original information such as permissions, attachments, and authors and so on.
The process of moving SharePoint list item in different library mentioned below:
Copy documents
SharePoint List Transfer provides the functions to copy documents or list items between folders, document libraries/lists, and different sites/site collections.
1. Choose the documents/list that you wish to move
On the ribbon menu, users can select documents which need to be copied. Batch documents are supported.
2. Copy target contents
After selected documents, click the Copy Documents button. It will open a new window.
3. Specify documents destination
In the “Target section” the users can browse and select the target list or folder to copy selected documents to. It gives an option to overwrite existing files determines whether the original documents in the target should be overwritten by the selected documents.
The option enter destination URL is used to specify the target location within another site collection. Click on the link and you will see a text field where you can enter a list or folder URL. Enter your valid URL and hit the check button.
An error message will be displayed if this application failed to connect to a specific target location. If everything seems to be okay then the URL will be replaced by an underlined address.
4. Preserve Information
In this “Preserver information section”, there are 3 options available for you to decide whether to preserve specific information.
Erase target version history when you move or copy a same document to the same library, you can select this option to remove the previous version history.
5. Column mapping
There are two options to map columns when migrating documents: Map columns automatically; which only copy values with same column name and type it only copy values with same column name and type and manually map columns to target list.
6. List Transfer Settings
Click on Settings and, find List Transfer Settings under Boost Solutions Software. In List Transfer Settings page, you can configure the default options for Copy and Move functions on a specific site.
Once you configure the options in this page, then all list and library in this site will obey the rules. After enable logging, the error and warning message will be recorded in the SharePoint server. To move SharePoint list to an else directory has never been easier and hassle free.