I want to find out by coding if a given Team Project has an associated SharePoint. If yes I also want to get the URL for the SharePoint in order to create a specific link to it.
I do not mean the web access of the TFS but the associated SharePoint. Is there a way to find this out without knowing the URL of the SharePoint server that is different from the TFS server?
using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client;
using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Server;
private static string RetrieveProjectPortalBaseAddress(TfsTeamProjectCollection tfs, string teamProject)
{
IRegistration registration = (IRegistration)tfs.GetService(typeof(IRegistration));
RegistrationEntry[] entries = registration.GetRegistrationEntries("TeamProjects");
ServiceInterface endpoint = entries[0].ServiceInterfaces.FirstOrDefault(si => si.Name == teamProject + ":Portal");
return endpoint.Url;
}
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My problem is simple. I have a registered Sharepoint site/domain (say https://secretText-my.sharepoint.com/personal/blabla) and I want to fetch the changelogs as described here Sharepoint Change log
So my question boils down to >>> How can I use this Changelog API to fetch data for a remote Sharepoint site?
How can I achieve this? I have tried Client Object Model and everything related but my goal is to use Sharepoint Change log.
I am hoping for something like,
using (ClientContext ctx = ClaimClientContext.GetAuthenticatedContext("https://secretText-my.sharepoint.com/personal/blabla"))
{
if (ctx != null)
{
ctx.Load(ctx.Web); // Query for Web
ctx.ExecuteQuery(); // Execute
ctx.Load(ctx.Site);
ctx.ExecuteQuery();
SPSite site = new SPSite(ctx.Site.Id);
SPContentDatabase db = site.ContentDatabase;
// Get the first batch of changes,
SPChangeCollection changes = db.GetChanges();
//USE this 'site' object to fetch the change logs
.
.
.
My aim is to somehow instantiate this SPSite object which would then help me get the data I want. Although this code seems a bit too ambitious(or totally wrong) but please don't hold it against me, I couldn't find any solution to this.
Much appreciated!
After a lot of Google searches and after reading so many answers, I have come to know that it isn't possible to connect to a remote Sharepoint server through the Server API. As that API works only when SP server is on the same network (same machine or intranet)
The only solution is to use Client Object Model. It provides(maps) quite a lot operations that the Server API gives.
To connect to the remote site I have used the samples provided at the MSDN site for Client Object Model. Here
I have some code (console app) running on a SharePoint farm machine, and I need the app to figure out the url of Central Administration site for that farm. I remember seeing some SharePoint API doing exactly that, but I can't find it now.
I've seen a bunch of hacks people are using for that, like looking it up in Windows registry, but I need a way via SharePoint API.
in C#
Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPAdministrationWebApplication centralWeb =
SPAdministrationWebApplication.Local;
To expand on the answer from #RDeVaney:
Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPAdministrationWebApplication centralWeb =
SPAdministrationWebApplication.Local;
string centralAdminUrl = centralWeb.Sites[0].Url;
Here is the code from msdn, please refer if it can answer your question
SPWebServiceCollection webServices = new SPWebServiceCollection(SPFarm.Local);
foreach (SPWebService webService in webServices)
{
foreach (SPWebApplication webApp in webService.WebApplications)
{
if (!webApp.IsAdministrationWebApplication)
{
get the URL here
}
}
}
I’m trying to learn SharePoint Client Object Model, specifically how to get a list of all SharePoint site URLs using a remote connection. This is possible using webservices…but I want to do it using the client object model.
I’ve figured how to get the title lists of a specific sharepoint site using the following code:
client object module):
ClientContext ctx = new ClientContext( server );
ctx.AuthenticationMode = ClientAuthenticationMode.Default;
ctx.Credentials = WindowsAuthenticationCredentials(username, password);
Web w = ctx.Web;
var lists = ctx.LoadQuery(w.Lists);
ctx.ExecuteQuery();
//Enumerate the results.
foreach (List theList in lists)
{
}
Output:
Announcements, Master Collection Pages… etc…
How can I do the same to get a site url list?
In web services you can call the following to achieve that, but as I said just trying to figure out how to do the same using client object module. If you can provide c# code that would greatly be appreciated.
WSPSitedata.SiteData sitedata = new SiteData();
sitedata.Url = #SharePointBaseURL + #"_vti_bin/sitedata.asmx";
sitedata.Credentials = our_credentials
_sSiteMetadata metaData = new _sSiteMetadata();
_sWebWithTime[] webWithTime
sitedata.GetSite(out metaData, out webWithTime, out users, out groups, out vgroups);
The SharePoint Client Object Model CSOM is designed to remotly interact with your SiteCollection. Sure, it is possible to connect to various SiteCollections, but it's not possible to look over all SiteCollections sitting within a SPWebApplications.
In 2010 you could still use the ASMX WebServices which are available in earlier versions of SharePoint.
To get a better understanding of the CSOM you should have a look at the MSDN site http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee537247.aspx
Did you really mean a list containing all SiteCollection URLs or was that a misunderstanding?
Thorsten
The company I work for has recently taken over a SharePoint 2007 project form another company. The other company created a site using the Collaboration Portal Publishing template. Since this is an internet web site, this is causing me a couple of problems.
By default the approval workflow is not activated on the Pages Libraries of the site, and the client requires the workflow to be active on all of the Pages Libraries. The problem is that the site is massive, and doing this manually will take too long, and because it’s such a large site I can’t recreate it from scratch.
Is there a way I can activate the approval workflow on all the Pages Libraries of the site? Could I maybe change something in the site definition? Or is there a way to activate it programmatically? Then I could create a console app that will recursively iterate through the sites and attach the workflow to the Pages Libraries?
Your can try with this code :
using (MossFramework.DocumentLibraryHelper docLibraryHelper = new MossFramework.DocumentLibraryHelper("SITENAME"))
{
using (SPSite site = new SPSite(docLibraryHelper.MossSiteAddress))
{
SPWeb siteCollection = site.OpenWeb();
siteCollection.AllowUnsafeUpdates = true;
SPFolder folder = siteCollection.GetFolder("Document Centre");
SPList list = siteCollection.Lists["Document Centre"];
Guid wfBaseId = new Guid("{5703E6AC-1C65-440F-88DC-EB65F2C6DF82}");
SPWorkflowAssociation wrkFl = list.WorkflowAssociations.GetAssociationByBaseID(wfBaseId);
foreach (SPListItem spListItem in list.Items)
{
site.WorkflowManager.StartWorkflow(spListItem, wrkFl, wrkFl.AssociationData);
// Error occurs here
}
site.Close();
}
}
or
You can try with this
I hope that helps
Is there any way to do WSS 3.0 site provisioning? My client's requirement is attributes as variables that will be defined in XML format: Organization Name, Logo, Address, User and Role information. The client should be able to install this web application to any WSS production server by just defining the attributes in the XML file.
Is it possible to to write a utility to parse that well defined XML and provision the site accordingly?
It's possible to provision sites from the object model, but creating entirely customized sites is beyond the scope of a single question. To get you started, you should take a look at the SPWebCollection.Add as well as the SPSiteCollection.Add.
To create a site collection and some subsites into one of your web applications, you could use something like this:
var farm = SPFarm.Local;
var solution = farm.Solutions.GetValue<SPSolution>("YourSolution.wsp");
var application = solution.DeployedWebApplications.First();
var sites = application.Sites;
using(var site = sites.Add("/", "Root Site", "Description", 1033, "YOURTEMPLATE#1", "YOURDOMAIN\SiteCollectionAdmin", "Site Collection Admin", "admin#yourcompany.example")) {
using(var rootWeb = site.RootWeb) {
// Code customizing root site goes here
using (var subSite = rootWeb.Webs.Add("SubSite", "Sub Site", "Description", 1033, "YOURTEMPLATE#2", false, false)) {
// Code customizing sub site goes here
}
}
}
Yes, there are more than one.
Take a look at SharePoint Solution Generator which is in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio 2005 Extensions.
You may create a site with all requirements of yours (pages, lists, document libraries...) and then generate a VS project that will create a SharePoint feature with all of your site. Then you may deploy that feature to any WSS production server.
You may alter the VS project to implement the logic to read your attributes from an additional xml file.
If the structure of your site is plain or you can save it as a template you may also write a small console application that reads the attribute xml file and create the site.
Create a regular solution, or use the aforementioned solution generator to generate the .wsp file. Then create a small console application, that expects the variables you mentioned as parameters.
With the code listed above, provision the new sitecollection from that solution, and store the entered parameters (Company name etc.) in the site in a list, or in the SPSite.Properties propertybag, from which you can then read them in custom webparts etc..
The SharePoint Data Population Tool available on CodePlex allows you to define sites with XML.