I cant find any eclipse plugins to publish to Sharepoint. I wish to write a plugin for TIBCO Business Modeler (based on Eclipse) which publishes exported HTMLs to Sharepoint.
I cant also find the right API for Sharepoint to do this. Does Sharepoint have a REST API to enable publishing? Can someone point me in the right direction?
Thanks
Sharepoint folders can be mounted in Windows network folders using WebDAV and uploading files is like writing to the local file system.
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Alright, I am obviously missing something here. I have moved several websites over to Azure to take advantage of all that it has to offer. Traditionally our team has always used DreamWeaver to ftp up/down and such. What I don't understand is how I go about getting hooked up to an EXISTING site on Azure. I can easily setup and web deploy to a NEW site, but I am trying to give the rest of the team access to the sites I have setup and I am lost as to how to approach this.
I have tried the File > Open Web Site route, and the issue with that is it never then saves the project/info anywhere in VS, and we are required to hook back up to it each time.
All of our local sites are on a shared network drive, so we all access the same local resources. I thought I could simply pass them all the publish profiles and they could then import, get, and then edit and publish files... but it never gives the option to "get all files" from the server.
Hope this makes sense?! Thanks in advance! :)
For multiple developer scenarios, it would be in your best interest to use a source control system such as Git or TFS. This will allow you not only to share the source across team members, but also give you the benefit of tracking changes and merging files that are modified across team members.
If you aren't comfortable with source control, you do still have access to the files via FTP or Secure FTP.
You could also use WebMatrix which has the concept of download from server built directly into the tooling.
I want to schedule an SSRS subscription to save directly to a SharePoint document library and I can't. I get the error "Failure writing file \server\path\report.pdf: Access to the path '\server\path\report.pdf' is denied.
Here are the facts:
- I get a different error if I use the user/pass combo for the subscription, so I know my user/pass is correct
- I can save to all other shared file areas I have tried
- I can log into the SSRS server and map to the SP UNC path and write documents to it
- unlike other mappings I've done on the SSRS server, the SP directory does not stay mapped, even though I have clicked 'reconnect at login'
- SSRS Server is Win 2008; SP is 2008 (I think)
- we have turned on WEBDAV and installed Desktop Experience
- SP integrated mode is not an option
Any ideas or nudges in a general direction are greatly appreciated!
If installing SSRS in SharePoint integrated mode is not an option, then you will need to write custom code.
Set the SSRS subscription to write out to a local path on the SQL server, and then set a recurring scheduled task to run your custom .exe.
The custom .exe should copy the contents of a local directory to a given SharePoint document library. The .net SharePoint objects make this pretty easy: you'll probably spend more time getting the project set up than writing code to copy the files.
I got it to work by
Enabling WEBDAV
Turning Desktop Experience mode on
Mapping the Http file connect path that sharepoint gives to as a drive
For some reason when i did that it gave me the ability to write directly to the sharepoint folder on the server. \sharepoint-server\sites\path\shared documents\
Hi try configuring the centeral admin first
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb326213.aspx
then follow the following post to configure delivery to sharepoint library
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb283186.aspx
i am new to sharepoint. i have a sharepoint application. i have to create a package setup (install shield kind of thing) that can deploy the sharepoint solution on the client machine. in my application we have .dll,.ascx,.xml etc files available. i think i have to deploy the dlls,ascx, xml files.
Can any body help me on this? how shloud i go forward and is there any tool available which i can use for this?
is it possible with VS2005? VS2005 provides a setup and deploy feature. can we use that for sharepoint? if yes can any body help me how to do it?
thanks in advance.
Try and have a look at http://www.codeplex.com/sharepointinstaller. It is a free tool offering a user friendly install/upgrade/uninstall of SharePoint solutions.
The first thing you need to understand is Solution Packages. They are the unit of deployment in SharePoint.
Creating a Solution Package in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
However, Solution Packages are meant to be deployed by SharePoint Administrators. They don't have a user friendly installation process.
If you want something more like an installer, you can look at the SharePoint Solution Installer CodePlex project.
We are migrating our sites to SharePoint. We have multiple back end jobs that run on our mainframes and ftp output files to the server and we have links to the location on our web pages and clients can access them.
Now when we have moved to SharePoint we have found that this is not possible We have found that we will not be able to ftp to a SharePoint site. How do we do it? Can some one help.
You can access content from a SharePoint server using the WebDAV protocol.
If your mainframe has some kind of means of doing WebDAV, then you can use that instead of the FTP protocol.
If your mainframe has support for Java, there are a couple of Java based solutions that you can take a look at here.
Another solution would also to develop a custom Windows Service, that either polls or subscribes to file creation events on the FTP server folder and upload the documents to a SharePoint Library using the SharePoint object model.
There are many examples of that out there, for example this one.
Java is well supported on the mainframe and Sharepoint provides a web service API. The two should make for a pretty simple solution.
First, it is true that there wouldn't be a good way for the mainframe to interact with Sharepoint directly. This is because all of the Sharepoint content is stored in a database, not as static files in some directory. (mainframe >> Sharepoint == !work)
Second, you could create a custom webpart that uses a connector to talk directly to the mainframe (Sharepoint >> mainframe == expensive custom development)
Thirdly, you could create a site that has a page of links. Those links would be to the server where the mainframe FTPs the files. This way the mainframe isn't trying to connect to the Sharepoint server. (mainframe >> ftp-server << Sharepoint == quick and dirty out-of-the-box solution)
Maybe an option is a to write a custom Webservice, that accepts the file as binary and the filename / path as parameters. Then deploy the WebService to sharepoint.
Another option is to write a Windows Service that uses a FileSystemWatcher to detect changes to a folder on the sharepoint server you FTP to. The service then moves the file to sharepoint.
Sorry for all the Tag confusion on the top.
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Thirdly, you could create a site that has a page of links. Those links would be to the server where the mainframe FTPs the files. This way the mainframe isn't trying to connect to the Sharepoint server. (mainframe >> ftp-server << Sharepoint == quick and dirty out-of-the-box solution). Our FTP server will be decommisioned soon so we may not able to do it.
Second, you could create a custom webpart that uses a connector to talk directly to the mainframe (Sharepoint >> mainframe == expensive custom development).( Need to investigate. At present have no idea about it.If you can help with few examples it would be great)
What about the Email option to Lists in a share point site.Will mainframes be able to email to share point site directly?
Need more suggestions.
OK I am new to working with SHarePoint Services and have an issue that I am trying to overcome. Where I work, I have implemented a Crystal reports Scheduler that outputs the reports to a shared folder. What I am trying to accomplish now is finding a way that I can point the output of the scheduler to the document library. I was hoping that I could find it like any other shared folder.
On your box hosting sharepoint, turn on the WebClient Service.
Goto the library you wish to upload to, drop down on actions-> open in windows explorer
The path you see can be converted to a UNC path, where you can use it like any other shared folder.
To convert, it should look like \\servername\Shared Documents
This unc can be mapped as a shared folder like any other physical networked folders.
Happy Uploading!
If you want to upload the file in your code (not manually) without mounting a WebDAV share, you can also HTTP-PUT it to the desired URL, for example http://myserver/sites/mysite/mysubsite/mylist/myfolder/foo.doc
Try the code in this question: Uploading files to Sharepoint (WSS 3.0) document library using HTTP PUT
With the tip in this answer: Uploading files to Sharepoint (WSS 3.0) document library using HTTP PUT.