I have uploaded a doc file on SharePoint site. Now I want to know the path of the file on the server (System).
If you uploaded it into a SharePoint document library, then it's not on the filesystem. It's in a SharePoint content database. If you can elaborate on what you want to do with the file, it will be easier to recommend ways to attack the problem and get the info you need.
It is saved in the content database. That's why you can't find it on disk.
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I am new to SharePoint Online, but haven't found anything via Google: I have tons of files (read: terabytes) stored on my filesystem and on a cloud storage and want to access their metadata to allow searching for them. Is this possible without uploading them into SharePoint Online? It should also be possible to "sync" the hierarchy of the crawled folder so I can click through the folder structure in SharePoint. I do not want to store the content of these files though (for storage space reasons).
It is like having a synced folder in SharePoint where the files are searchable, but they are just shortcuts of some kind, without content.
I thought of creating some sort of timed job which crawls the file system and creates empty files in SharePoint which contain the metadata and a link to the file, but this seems very crude to me. Is there a better solution or maybe even something SharePoint Online itself provides?
// edited: I need to crawl not only files on my filesystem but also cloud storage files of different cloud storage services.
// whoops got that wrong, it is SharePoint Online, not 2013.
You can add the file share as one of the sources. SharePoint will be able to crawl & Index the files in the file share.
Steps on how to do it can be found here...
How to: Configure Enterprise Search to index a file share
We have a file share that we would like to keep, but have it mapped to sharepoint so it can be searched. I know I can do this with a page viewer web part, but is it also possible to upload documents to the drive through Sharepoint?
I am not able to find a solution that accomplishes both viewing and uploading to the share. Is this possible?
In a SharePoint document library, is there any way to store the documents on the file system instead of the database?
You can make SharePoint store its documents outside the DB using the SharePoint External Storage API. In other words, this isn't some functionality accessible through the SharePoint interface, but the system does offer a way of building it yourself. There are third party providers like StoragePoint that will do the job for you.
Documents in a SharePoint document library will always be hosted in the database. That said, you can access the files with a UNC path that masks the fact that they are stored in the database.
\\url\sites\yoursite\folder\
You could also write a custom solution (workflow?) that copies the files into a standard file system once they are added to a document library.
We are currently implementing MOSS 2007 to replace an older portal system (Plumtree) and are currently looking at searching. We have 1000s of documents on a file server that we would like users to be able to search. This I can set up by adding a content source of "File Shares" and pointing it at the UNC of the file share. The issue is getting access to this data when you are not on the local network.
So, file share is \FileServer01\Files. This has a file called Wibble.txt containing the word Wibble.
When I search for Wibble it finds this document, BUT it points to file:\FileServer01\Files\Wibble.txt.
That is great if I am attached to the network, but what about when I am accessing Sharepoint via the Internet and I'm not on the LAN that knows about that server?
If I wrote something from scratch I would have a download page that I passed in the location of the file and it would stream it to my browser. Sharepoint does not seam to do anything like like.
Ideas? Suggestions? Have I missed something simple?
Create an HttpModule that intercepts requests to documents in this file share, and presents them through an HttpHandler to the user. Deploy the module and handler to the web application.
The only way to make that content accessible via HTTP would be to bring everything off the file server and into the SharePoint content database. You can then simply let SharePoint crawl that instead of the file server; and your users will be able to download content as well.
Edit: To make the migration task quicker and easier, you can ensure that the WebDav service is running on the sharepoint box, which will allow you to open a document library using the windows explorer interface.
I am working with a Sharepoint document library and I'm trying to locate the source of the document library page. I'm working on the Sharepoint server. I just can't find it, where should it be stored?
Thank you!
SharePoint does not store the pages directly in the filesystem. The mechanism is a little less straightforward.
To understand this mechanism, You have to understand the concepts of Ghosting/Unghosting, and the ASP.NET Virtual Path Provider. The SharePoint stores the pages in the Database as BLOBS, and serves them up using the ASP.NET Virtual path provider.
The ASP.NET Virtual Path Provider provides an abstraction between ASP.NET and FileSystem. Instead of getting a System.IO.FileStream object directly from the filesystem, the provider uses MapPathBasedVirtualPathProvider and the MapPathBasedVirtualFile classes to get the FileStream object.
This abstraction allows ASP.NET to serve up pages from anywhere, without having to store the pages in an actual file system. This concept is used to implement Ghosting/Unghosting which basically means having a single copy of the page, and serving them up as different pages.
SharePoint leverages this new feature in ASP.NET 2.0, along with the improved BLOB storage functionality in SQL Server 2005 to serve up pages.
Your question is not very clear...
Are you refering to the "source" code of the document library pages?
It depends if you have edited them with SharePoint Designer or not. If not they should be located under 12 hive (c:\program files\common files\microsoft shared\web server extensions\12). If any modification were done using SPD2007 the files will be stored in the content database.
...or are you refering to the "source" where the files are stored?
All the files saved in document libraries are stored in the content database as blobs in the AllUserData table.
You the pages appear as 'aspx' pages, they are not stored on the server anywhere as aspx pages. All pages are either stored in the DB as a BLOB, or 'put together' at runtime from information stored in the DB. SharePoint is an odd monster :)
If you are going to edit the look, there are a few options:
SharePoint Designer (I hate this app)
Make another 'web part page' that includes the document library inside of it while changing the content around it (easiest and best approach IMO)
make a specialized web-part (most
difficult)
SharePoint takes a whilet o get the full grasp of... it is strange.
When you create a document library template files from the "12 hive" are ghosted into the SharePoint content database (SQL). The only proper way to edit those pages at that point is to use Microsoft SharePoint Designer.
Open SharePoint Designer and open the SharePoint web site in question and you will see your document library listed in the file explorer. Under your document library you will see a Forms folder, that Forms folder is what contains the source files that are rendered to the browser.
Here is a screen shot:
If I understand what Sacha and Naspinski are saying, when I am creating a new Document library, the look of the page is retrieved from the 12 hive and stored (ghosted?) into the DB. The page is no more stored into the 12 hive, as for each document library I will have a somehow "customized page". Is that true?
There are two types of pages in SharePoint2010.Application page and site page.SharePoint store application page directly in File system.For site pages , if the page is in a ghosted state , the page in stored in the file system.If the page has been customized,the file is then stored in the content database.