Comments on: Insert a Sharepoint list item from web services

By: calin

calin — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:18:03 +0000

Hi,
Thanks for the example. It seems I have to get used with all limitations provided by MS for SP developers. I’m wondering if it was easier for them to parse and interpret an XML instead of creating serializable business classes which could be manipulated through webservices and developers could achieve basic operations without having to read few hours on the internet about how the XML data should look like…
I guess I should say “Thanks again MS for keeping things complicated with SP”.

By: Ali raza

Ali raza — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:36:50 +0000

i am stuck in one issue, if you can help me, iam using sharepoint List webservice to get attachement,

using method getAttachmentCollection,

It returns perfect attachement url on local machine, but when i publish the site to internet it return same url not the internet one, hostname does not change i tried to change the url using javascript relpace method but it does not work, can you please tell me how to fix this, i really have to finish this as soon as possible

By: sweha

sweha — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:23:24 +0000

When you insert a sharepoint list item from web services, can you also please show how to add attachments as well so that if i attach a file suppose in a webpage and hit submit, it shows up as an attachment in the sharepoint list for the inserted item.

I tried using listservice.AddAttachment(”listname”, “ID”, fileName, contents) but I don’t know how do I do it for ID where I don’t want to say “1″ or “2″ or “3″ as I am not trying to attach something to specifally item with id 1 or 2 or 3 in the list. I just want that whenever a new item is inserted, if it has an attachment, thn add that attachment also along with the other times in the list.

By: David Murdock

David Murdock — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:46:57 +0000

D’oh, looks like this blob page took out a bunch of the XML code when i submitted.

By: David Murdock

David Murdock — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:45:48 +0000

Ben,

Thanks for the Post, It’s definitely explanatory of the basic process.

I have one question.

I would like to insert the value of a variable into the batchElement.InnerXML.
Such As:

batchElement.InnerXml = “”
“textbox4.Text”;

Can you please point me in the direction of how to accomplish this.

Thanks in Advance,
Dave

By: scotty

scotty — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:52:30 +0000

Ben,
many thanks for this post
I blew off many hours trawling through the MS examples and the many examples on t’internet which generally just repeat the MS ones trying to figure out how to update a lookup field (1-based works for me)

Finding sharepoint to be a horribly complex monster to get basic things done in

Many thanks for your post – saved me where the rest of t’internet failed!

By: Ryan Lege

Ryan Lege — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:43:09 +0000

How about updating Modified by and Created by?

By: Rob Volk

Rob Volk — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:33:41 +0000

It looks like the lookup lists require a 1-based index, not a 0-based index. Has anyone else seen this?

By: ben

ben — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:16:55 +0000

Bart, parth:

hope you get your issues resolved. I wrote this over two years ago and I haven’t done any Sharepoint work since then, so I’m really not your best option as far as getting help. The code that I posted worked for my scenario, but Sharepoint is a complex beast, and there are changes in Sharepoint 2007 that probably make my code not work anymore.

Sorry I can’t be of more help.

By: Bart van Beurden

Bart van Beurden — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:11:48 +0000

Hi Ben,

So I will try to commit my code for the third (and hopefully the last) time..

I tried to use your way and something like this below, both ways don’t work

Method ID=’1′ Cmd=’New’
Field name=’team’ Type=’Lookup’ List=’Team’ FieldRef=’name’
Field name=’project’ Type=’Lookup’ List=’Project’ FieldRef=’name’