Question

We are having someone manually load weekly generated excel spreadsheets into SharePoint. I’m sure there is a way to automate this. I don’t know a lot about SharePoint, and maybe it’s really as simple as just knowing the folder SharePoint is moving the files to and copying them directly there. Or maybe it requires some programming to get it automatically load new files put in a given directory into SharePoint.

Either way, I would just like someone to point me in the right direction here.

Answer 1

You will need to upload the file using the copy web service in SharePoint. I am not sure what version of SharePoint you are running but I am assuming 2007. Here is a sample project.

public void UploadFile(string destinationFolderPath,
                      byte[] fileBytes,
                      string fileName,
                      bool overwrite,
                      string sourceFileUrl,
                      string lastVersionUrl)
{

List<Sharepoint.FieldInformation> fields = new List<Sharepoint.FieldInformation>();
Sharepoint.FieldInformation fieldInfo;

fieldInfo = new Sharepoint.FieldInformation();
fieldInfo.Id = Microsoft.SharePoint.SPBuiltInFieldId.Title;
fieldInfo.Value = "New title";
fieldInfo.DisplayName = "Title";
fieldInfo.Type = YetAnotherMigrationTool.Library.SP2007.Sharepoint.FieldType.Text;
fieldInfo.InternalName = "Title";
fields.Add(fieldInfo);

string[] url;
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(destinationFolderPath))
    url = new string[] { string.Format("{0}/{1}/{2}", _siteUrl, _name, fileName) };
else
    url = new string[] { string.Format("{0}/{1}/{2}{3}", _siteUrl, _name,    destinationFolderPath, fileName) };
Sharepoint.CopyResult[] result;

Sharepoint.Copy service = new Sharepoint.Copy();
service.Url = _siteUrl + "/_vti_bin/Copy.asmx";
service.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(Settings.Instance.User, Settings.Instance.Password);
service.Timeout = 600000;

uint documentId = service.CopyIntoItems(sourceFileUrl, url, fields.ToArray(), fileBytes, out result);
}

public void SetContentType(List<string> ids, string contentType)
{
ListsService.Lists service = new YetAnotherMigrationTool.Library.SP2007.ListsService.Lists();
service.Url = _siteUrl + "/_vti_bin/Lists.asmx";
service.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(Settings.Instance.User, Settings.Instance.Password);

string strBatch = "";
for (int i = 1; i <= ids.Count; i++)
{
    strBatch += @"<Method ID='"+i.ToString()+@"' Cmd='Update'><Field Name='ID'>" + ids[i-1] + "</Field><Field Name='ContentType'>"+contentType+"</Field></Method>";
}
XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
XmlElement elBatch = xmlDoc.CreateElement("Batch");
elBatch.SetAttribute("OnError", "Continue");
elBatch.SetAttribute("ListVersion", "10");
elBatch.SetAttribute("ViewName", "");
elBatch.InnerXml = strBatch;

result = service.UpdateListItems(_name, elBatch);
}