As you may know I have released a tool you can use for SharePoint site provisioning. But what does it mean and how can you use it? During your development process you may need a test environment with lots of data. You can either create this test data by hand or you can use my tool Content Generator 2011 in order save time.
This article shows you the first steps using Content Generator 2011.
Download & User Manual
SharePoint Site Provisioning - Content Generator 2011
How to
1. Set up the application using Tools -> Options:
2. Select a template folder where you can store the templates you create and select an attachment folder with documents you can upload to libraries. You can use these documents in order to create real world content in document libraries:
3. Connect to an existing SharePoint web application:
After that new forms will be available.
4. Select the site collection node (1), select the language of the site you want to create (2) and double click at the Blog template (3):
5. Now you have added the blog to your structure:
6. You can use this step to add other sites, pages or lists. Save your structure to a file:
7. All you need now is to create a job which actually creates the sites, pages and libraries in SharePoint:
8. Click run and your structure will be created in your SharePoint environment:
I hope the first steps help you how to use the tool in order to enhance your development and test process with real world test data.