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AThamburaj
Jun 15, 2020Copper Contributor
SharePoint modern pages - posting comments with specified date, author, etc.
For this project, I am attempting to load comment data from a SharePoint modern page and then re-publishing those comments exactly as they were first posted on a different site. I am able to get and ...
Vikram_Samal
Jun 15, 2020MCT
AThamburajAs you might be already aware Comments are not stored in the page list item and they appear to be stored in a some sort of storage container which only allows to retrieve or add through API calls. I have not came across any edit ability which will suppress creation date and allow you to input yours. For now I will assume there is noway it can be done. But if anyone has any thoughts or workaround I am following the post to learn more.
Thanks
Vik
- marc756Sep 05, 2025Copper Contributor
Since the API seems to be the only way to migrate Sharepoint items with comments to another site, I stumbled across the same limitation. All migrated comments receive the current date as the creationDate. Very annoying, but there does not seem to be a solution to this.