I’m going to need to push and pull files from a SharePoint site that is not hosted by my company (it is external). I’m only going to get a few days (if that) to get this working so I don’t have much time to experiment.
To add to my requirements/headaches, I’m going to have to implement this with VBScript. .Net would be preferred for me but for reasons beyond my control I have to use VBScript. I don’t have direct access to my VBScript web server, so I won’t be able to implement this in .NET and use that object from VBScript.
I’m looking for anything that would help me accomplish this goal quickly and effectively. I found this post and am wondering if the PUT/GET method used here would work for me?
http://weblogs.asp.net/bsimser/archive/2004/06/06/149673.aspx (I got this link from: Sharepoint API – How to Upload files to Sharepoint Doc Library from ASP.NET Web Application)
To top all of this off, I’ve never done any programming or administration of a SharePoint site. My knowledge of SharePoint is that of a user. I’m aware that there is an API from the few Google searches I did. However, my readings make me believe that my code would need to run on or in proximity to the SharePoint server. I don’t believe I have the proximity I need to use the API.
Sincere thank yous!
Regards,
Frank
Progress Update: I’m still researching this. Tom pointed out that the example I had posted is probably from an old SharePoint version. His recommendation to use .Net to develop a prototype on Web Services is good but I’m hoping for more detailed answers.
I’m now wondering if I can accomplish what I need to accomplish using HTTP PUT and GETs. At my company, for a specific project we do use HTTP PUT and GETs to do something like this. We have files that are stored on an HTTP server and this is how we post and retrieve them.
Would this work over SharePoint or would SharePoint require special handling? Basically, do I have to use Web Services?
Progress Update 2: This link is helpful… Upload a file to SharePoint through the built-in web services
But I am still looking for more information on this topic… Thanks all…
I never really received a answer to this that worked out but this is no longer an issue for me.
What we ended up doing is scraping the html. In effect, we put together our own ad-hoc web service processor where instead of SOAP, html is used to communicate. Then we execute GETs, POSTs, and etc to work with the web service.
We had done something similar in VBScript in for WebDAV — we had a class and created a new one to work with SharePoint.