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If you’ve read some of my earlier posts you’ll know that I’ve been working on 3 commands to enable replacing content throughout the site in order to deal with the broken links I’ve encountered as a result of moving so many sites around for our upgrade.

Just a friendly reminder that if you are using these commands you’ll want to check back at this blog regularly. I’m sometimes posting updates to the download as often as 3-4 times a day or more depending on what I’m currently working on (there won’t always be a blog post corresponding to every update).

Some people may have read my post from a few days ago regarding the retargetting of the content query web part which was necessary because I had to move a sub-site from one site collection to another.

Way back one of the first commands I created was one which would allow you to set the Master Site Directory (gl-setmastersitedirectory). It turns out that because my company decided to have each division in it’s own site collection that I also needed to be able to set the local site directory (http://[host]/_layouts/SiteDirectorySettings.

I wasn’t planning on creating this command but then I ran my gl-replacefieldvalues command and forgot to pass the “-publish” switch in so now I was stuck with all these list items that needed to be published and/or approved.

As I mentioned in my previous post (Replace Field Values) I’m currently trying to solve the issue of broken links throughout the various sites that I’ve upgraded and moved around. The gl-replacefieldvalues command was the first of three that I’ve created.

As part of my upgrade I needed to be able to delete some web parts (closed or open) and close and open some web parts. In many respects this command, gl-setwebpartstate, is basically the twin to the gl-movewebpart command which I recently posted about.

As I was going through my upgraded and moved sites I discovered that the “Grouped Listings” web parts were not working on my webs that I’d migrated from a subsite to a site collection or moved from one site collection to another.

Because I’m doing so much moving around of the post-upgraded sites I’m running into lots of issues with broken links. In an attempt to solve this problem I’ve begun working on 3 commands.

This particular command was one that I didn’t actually need but rather I needed a starting place for a couple other commands that I did need (to be documented) and moving a web part seemed a simple enough starting place for manipulating web parts.