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Asked: 2026-06-01T21:46:28+00:00

I have an Excel-based application that gathers some user input, and makes some calculations

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I have an Excel-based application that gathers some user input, and makes some calculations based on that user input. The application itself doesn’t store any of the user input or calculations; currently whenever a user runs the application, it sends the data to an Access database and inserts a row into an Access table xlTable that’s linked to a Sharepoint list. The relevant code is:

sub sendToSharepoint(userName as string, folderPath as string, calculatedValue as long)

dim db as DAO.database
dim insertStr as string

'open connection to Access db
set db=OpenDatabase(myDatabasePath)

'build insert string
insertStr="insert into xlTable (userName,folderPath,calculatedValue,workDate) values (""" & userName & """,""" & folderPath & """," & calculatedValue & ","#" & Now & "#)"

'insert values into xlTable, which adds them to the Sharepoint list
db.execute insertStr,dbFailonError

end sub

Because we’ve had some issues with Access disconnecting from Sharepoint and therefore not populating the list, and in general want to simplify our data transfer process, I’d like to send the data directly from Excel to Sharepoint without using Access. I’ve read some stuff on SO about using Web Services to update Sharepoint, but I haven’t been able to figure out how these work exactly, or how to implement them in VBA.

What info would I need about my Sharepoint list to manipulate it from Excel VBA similar to the above code? Do I need to add any references?

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  1. Editorial Team

    All data manipulations can be done through SharePoint Lists Web service named lists.asmx. You have to call into that web sevice. For instance UpdateListItems method should do what MS Access does now.

    One option you can use to access the lists web sevice, is “Microsoft SOAP Toolkit” which has to be installed as office component (never done that, but here is an article describing it: http://oreilly.com/pub/h/1306

    Another option is to use MSXML library (which is always available) and sending SOAP requests as simple HTTP requests. Then parsing the results as xml. There is an article showing examples how to do it: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jpsanders/archive/2007/06/14/how-to-send-soap-call-using-msxml-replace-stk.aspx

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