How do you change the ListTemplateID of an existing SharePoint list?

Question

Howdy,

I have several lists in a sitecollection that are currently using ListTemplateID 101 (DocumentLibary). I want to attach an eventhandler to these lists, but if I attach the event to list 101 all of the document libaries in the sitecollection will get this eventhandler.

I do not want to programatically attach the eventhandler to these lists.

I would like to know, how do you change the ListTemplateID for an existing list?

Thank you,
Keith

Answer 1

I doubt that you can do that. It most certainly will be more work than just attaching the event handlers to the existing lists.

Answer 2

If you want to attache event handlers only to certain lists and don't want to do this programatically, you can use the SharePoint Server 2007 - Custom Site Administration Applications from Brian Wilson.

It adds a new menu entry to the website settings. There you can select a site, a list or a content type to which you want attache the event handler and you can also define which event should fire the handler.

I hope this will help you solving your problem.

Answer 3

If the lists have already been created, unfortunately you are stuck with programmatically attaching the event handler or using a custom tool to manually attach them.

Once the lists have been created, the ListTemplateID is stored in the database and there is no supported way of changing it.