SharePoint Data Generator SPDG is an open-source tool developed by SysKit Ltd. to generate mock data for SharePoint. The tool can be used to populate SharePoint On-Premises or SharePoint Online.
You can create data to test SharePoint, to simulate and recreate specific scenarios in which you can engage multiple SharePoint features, or to give SharePoint or SharePoint-related demos. For example, we use it to showcase and conduct demos for SPDocKit and Security Manager, our SharePoint admin tools.
- Active Directory or Azure Directory
- Web applications
- Site collections
- Subsites, lists, folders, items and documents
- Content Types, Site columns, and views
- Customized SharePoint groups
- Unique permissions
SPDG uses random names from the .csv files stored in the directory. Based on that data, it generates user names, web applications, sites, site collections, and other SharePoint content. Learn more...
Please note that SPDG does not support SharePoint 2007.
To build this solution you must have .net 4.5, however once built SysKit SPDG can also be used on machines with .net 3.5 (potential SP2010 environments). Visual Studio 2015 or better is recommended.
SPDG can be run on either a workstation or a SharePoint server. However, please note that for On Premises data generation it MUST be run from a SharePoint server, since the Server Object Model is used is the generation procedure.
To use SPDG you can: