Cannot create site template due to references containing formula's

Question

Hi
We currently have in our production environment an issue creating a site template due to references in fields yet the UPSLogs do not state the column in question
The error I get when trying to save the template is as below:
Error:
The formula contains reference(s) to field(s)
Correlation ID: {b3c9eo56-f2e3-48aa-9f7d-86a63ab8a37f}
Date and Time: 2/3/2015 10:22:02
Is there any other way of identifying the column so I can resolve this issue?
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

If you know PowerShell or care to want to mess with this script you might get what you need:
$web = Get-SPWeb SITE
$list = $web.Lists["LIST"]
$FieldType = [Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFieldType]
$FieldType = $list.fields.GetField("COLUMN_NAME")
Foreach ($i in $FieldType)
IF($i.ValidationFormula -ne $Null)
Write-Host "Column Name:"$i.Title
Write-Host "Forumla:" $i.ValidationFormula
I wrote this very quickly so you have to note that you have to manually put the column name in and run it. It will show you in the out put the formula used on each column. I will work on this some more to get it to check all the columns and return you what's
being used and which is a reference.
UPDATED:
$web = Get-SPWeb SITE
$list = $web.Lists["LIST_NAME"]
$FieldType = [Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFieldType]
$FieldType = $list.fields
foreach($i in $FieldType)
Foreach ($item in $i)
IF($item.ValidationFormula -ne $Null)
Write-Host ""
Write-Host "Column Name:"$item.Title
Write-Host "Forumla:" $item.ValidationFormula -foreground Red
Write-Host ""
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