I am trying to call GetUserInfo on a sharepoint list (using the sharepoint web services), which seems to work ok, but only If the user I am trying to get details for has already added an item to the list using the actual sharepoint site.
I would like to be able to call GetUserInfo for people that havent already added an item to the list.
The List itself is open to any NT AUTHORITY\authenticated users to post items, when They add a list item, it seems to add them as a site member, but doesnt seem to add them to a specific group or role (as far as I can see!)
Has anyone else come up against the same problem? Is there a workaround available?
After some digging around I managed to find out a way round this one.
The People webservice (people.asmx) has a method, ResolvePrincipals, which accepts a users NT login(s) (or email address) and resolves it to their associated sharepoint account for the site - (Including the Unique ID of the user - this is what I was after)
The method has a boolean parameter (addToUserInfoList) when set to true, it will automaticaly add the user to the site (if they don't already exist)
MSDN Documentation can be found here -
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/people.people.resolveprincipals(v=office.12).aspx
Users don't actually get added into the SharePoint user list until they have visited a site.
Are you just after the NT Login ID or something else?
Related
Using the SharePoint REST api or search API, is it possible to retrieve a full list of all the sites a specific user is following? All I can find in the documentation is https://<sharepoint>/_api/social.following/my/followed(types=4) which only works for the current logged in user.
I don't think this is possible. The below are the only available endpoints:
Follow
StopFollowing
IsFollowed
My
My/FollowedDocumentsUri
My/FollowedSitesUri
My/Followed
My/FollowedCount
My/Followers
My/Suggestions
GetMySuggestions
IsMyPeopleListPublic
AmIFollowedBy
GetPeopleFollowedBy
GetFollowersFor
Reference
I'm trying to implement permission levels in SharePoint hosted app. I've created a custom list "Permissions" where I'm adding different users with their roles.
I have created a page List.aspx where I'm showing my custom list "Products" as a list view web part. Page List.aspx checks the user's role against "Permissions" list, and page can show or hide content in regards to this role. The problem is, when user tries to navigate to "Lists/Products/Allitems.aspx" or "Lists/Permissions/Allitems.aspx" he can see the list items.
All code check is done in JavaScript and I know there is a security risk, but this will work for my users. I just need to find a way to inject custom JavaScript code to Allitems.aspx, and to check if user has permissions to see it or not.
Everything here is done on App web and there's nothing that I use on host web.
I've found a workaround for this. Basically what I did is that I just hide the list view from direct access. To achieve this, open the Schema.xml of the list and replace "JSLink":
from
<JSLink>clienttemplates.js</JSLink>
to
<JSLink>~site/Scripts/OverrideListView.js</JSLink>
Now, create a new file Scripts/OverrideListView.js and add following code to it:
document.write("<style>body {display:none; };</style>");
Try now to access Lists/Permissions/Allitems.aspx directly. You will get a blank page.
This is basically idea how to insert custom JS code into list view. You could add additional code for checking current user's permissions on site level and in regards to it to unhide this view, or even to redirect him to the homepage if he does not have right role or permissions.
Is it possible to have a field in the current item be changed by clicking a URL? The field would be a choice field with predefined choices.
Such as if the item field is currently:
Status: 2
If a user clicks the link, the field would now be:
Status: 3
If not, is there any other way for a user to easily change a field in the current item without actually haveing to visit the item?
Thanks!
Not Out Of The Box (OOTB) - but you've a few options.
Write an ASPX page to do what you want
Use something like SPServices and javascript to update the list item via the web services.
Use the Client Object Model (2010 only)
By the way - changing stuff on a 'get' can be dangerous as you can do malicious things - for example imagine you have a page that deletes the users account without any prompting (exact example doesn't matter) - what if someone clicks on that link by mistake or even worse what about an email sent with an image with that page as source URL - simply viewing the email could delete the users account.
It's not possible by using a GET request, but SharePoint 2010 is offering a RESTful API to manage ListItems from any client
The REST API is located within the virtual WebServices folgder under each SharePoint Site.
http://YourSharePointSite/_vti_bin/ListData.svc.
To perform an update on SharePoint ListItems you have to create a PUT Request. For more information on SharePoints REST API you should have a look at this MSDN site, there are also a lot of samples linked from this article.
Thorsten
I'm in charge of a Sharepoint collection, and a user asks this. Is it possible that when a user creates an item, some fields are automatically filled with some info, such as email address and location?
Authentication uses Active Directory, so every user is identified when using Sharepoint. The only issue is that, being in a big corporate company, I don't have any access to the server, so it must be feasible through configuration of said site/list or using Sharepoint Designer, but I can't and won't be allowed to deploy anything server side.
Any idea?
With your limitations, your best bet would be a combination of ajax (I suggest jquery) and sharepoint webservices (if necessary), you need to do a XmlHttpRequest in the userdisp.aspx page, if this page has all the info you need, then get it, otherwise, get the currently logged account and use it to query the webservices (this part I'm not sure if theres a method that will return this info).
This all works using only the browser (Content Editor WebPart) or the SharePoint Designer client.
I am creating a form within InfoPath which is to be integrated into a SharePoint 2007 Portal. Within this form there will be a textfield into which a user can enter the Name of a Person.
How can I validate whether this Person exists or not?
Instead of validating the user, is there a way to fill a dropdown List with all usernames of the portal? (which of cause would be users from the Active Directory)
I haven't done this specifically, so there may be a better way, but I've been pulling a lot of data out of SharePoint and into an InfoPath Form (deployed to a SharePoint forms library and accessible through SharePoint Forms Service with MOSS Enterprise) and also going the other way using the SharePoint web services - very quick to use, and the person web service is right there.
Have you tried looking at the Contact Selector (an ActiveX control). Here is a MSDN-article describing how to add it as a control in InfoPath and this one describes how to make it work.
I have been using it in the majority of my infopath projects and it works flawlessly - also for browser-enabled forms.
When doing something similar in an ASP.NET application, I've used the Sharepoint search and searched the "People" Scope for the specific user. You can also search across profile information so you can pull back everyone with a certain Job Title, or in a specific Department.
I don't validate a person's existance, but I do determine a person's full name using their login and SharePoint. You should be able to modify this code for your purposes, it is below. For it to function you need a data connection in your InfoPath document called GetUsersFromSP. Configured as follows:
Location is - http://njintranet2/_vti_bin/usergroup.asmx?WSDL
Operation is – GetUserColectionFromSite (last one on list)
Automatically retrieve data when form is opened should be checked.
string ADName = System.Environment.UserName;
IXMLDOMDocument3 UserQuery = (IXMLDOMDocument3)thisXDocument.GetDOM("GetUsersFromSP");
UserQuery.setProperty("SelectionNamespaces",
"xmlns:dfs=\"http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/infopath/2003/dataFormSolution\" " +
"xmlns:tns=\"http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/directory/\"");
((WebServiceAdapterObject)thisXDocument.DataAdapters["GetUsersFromSP"]).Query();
IXMLDOMNode Users = UserQuery.selectSingleNode("//dfs:myFields/dfs:dataFields/tns:GetUserCollectionFromSiteResponse/tns:GetUserCollectionFromSiteResult/tns:GetUserCollectionFromSite/tns:Users");
foreach (IXMLDOMNode current in Users.selectNodes("tns:User"))
{
string Login = current.attributes.getNamedItem("LoginName").text;
Login = Login.ToUpper();
if (Login.EndsWith(ADName.ToUpper()))
{
thisXDocument.DOM.selectSingleNode("my:root/my:config/my:User").text = current.attributes.getNamedItem("Name").text;
break;
}
}
Use this control:
http://blogs.msdn.com/infopath/archive/2007/02/28/using-the-contact-selector-control.aspx
Or if you want to build your own validator, you'll need to query the SharePoint profile database. I'd recommend this over querying AD directly. There's lots of articles online about working with the profile database.
Have a look at this Link, it explains how to populate a dropdown with the SharePoint Users
http://blueinfopath.blogspot.com/2008/10/how-to-populate-list-with-sharepoint.html
I you want to validate,
- Make a textbox
- Add a Button, name it ValidateUser
- Create a Receive Connection to the ......
- Att Rules to the ValidateUser
- Add the textbox to the field AccountName in the Secondary Datasource
- Execute the receive connection
- Get the value of the field Value with filter Name="PreferredName"
This work for Infopath Form Services
Test it and enter the UserLogin into the textbox and click on the Validate Button
Frederik