How to generate XML for Colligo

Colligo allows you to sync SharePoint lists and libraries to your computer, and since Office 2003 won’t recognize memberships pulled from a SharePoint 2007 environment by default, one of your customers choose this tool to have a save-as functionality option in Office 2003. The idea was to auto generate the xml file that is readable by Colligo so each user would have a set of sites to save to.

First things first, the documentation on how you can create such an xml file can be found here and a demo xml file can be found here (xsd can be found here). Knowing that makes it pretty easy to generate the xml you require. Two things to keep in mind:

• Don’t use comments in your XML file, Colligo just won’t import it.
• If you auto generate the xml multiple times, make sure to delete the file after Colligo imported it, otherwise it tries to import it again (and fails) the next time you start Colligo

So creating XML files for Colligo made easy.