NOTE: As of June 26th, 2009, this utility has a new home - http://csc.codeplex.com/
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Here is my first ever stsadm.exe command extension! – createsitecolumn
stsadm.exe -o createsitecolumn -url http://mysite -name MyTextField -type Text -group Examples
stsadm.exe -o createsitecolumn -url http://mysite -name MyChoiceField -type Choice -group Examples -choices 4,5,3
stsadm.exe -o createsitecolumn -url http://mysite -name MyChoiceField -type MultiChoice -group Examples -choices “Choice A”,”Choice B”
Currently supported column types are as follows:
- Text
- Note
- Choice
- Boolean
- Calculated
- Currency
- Number
- User
- URL
- DateTime
- MultiChoice
If there exists a site column already, the command will delete that site column and create again with the supplied values. This is one of the places I require your valuable feedback – whether to delete the site column if its already present
Installation
Extract the stsadm-createsitecolumn-extension.zip and run the Setup.exe. Make sure you deploy the solution only to central administration.
Below are the installation screenshots
After successful installation, you can check the extension using this command: stsadm –help createsitecolumn
Feel free to comment or email me if you have find any bugs or any suggestions! I am very happy to get your feedback.