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SharePoint 2007 Web Services

Tony Testa posted on February 24, 2008 15:18

It's a pretty well known fact that SharePoint 2007 exposes most of its Object Model through web services. In my experience though, I always forget the address of the web services as well as forget which web services there are. So with that being said, here is a link to the MSDN page listing the web services SharePoint2007 Web Services. The link is handy....but it only tells you the methods, it doesn't always tell you the address to get to the web service at.

The web service .asmx files are located at "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\ISAPI"

Every SharePoint Site has a virtual directory known as "_vti_bin" which maps to the above directory. Don't believe me? Open up your IIS management console, go to one of your web apps, and look where "_vti_bin" maps to in the file system.

Here is a list of the web services:

Name	URL	Description
Administration	http://<AdminSite>/_vti_adm/Admin.asmx	Ok....this one is the only different one out of the web services. The Admin.asmx web service performs naturally...Admin functions thus it is behind your Central Admin site and require appropriate admin permissions. Provides methods for managing a deployment of Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services, such as for creating or deleting site collections.
Alerts	http://<Site>/_vti_bin/Alerts.asmx	Provides methods for working with alerts for list items in a SharePoint site.
Authentication	http://<Site>/_vti_bin/Authentication.asmx	Specifies a client proxy that provides user authentication for SharePoint sites that use forms-based authentication.
Copy	http://<Site>/_vti_bin/Copy.asmx	Provides methods for copying files between SharePoint sites or within a SharePoint site.
Document Workspace	http://<Site>/_vti_bin/Dws.asmx	Exposes methods for managing Document Workspace sites and the data they contain.
Forms	http://<Site>/_vti_bin/Forms.asmx	Provides methods for returning forms that are used in the user interface when working with the contents of a list.
Imaging	http://<Site>/_vti_bin/Imaging.asmx	Provides methods that enable you to create and manage picture libraries.
List Data Retrieval	http://<Site>/_vti_bin/DspSts.asmx	Defines the filter used in a query against a data source provider.
Lists	http://<Site>/_vti_bin/Lists.asmx	Provides methods for working with lists and list data
Meetings	http://<Site>/_vti_bin/Meetings.asmx	Enables you to create and manage Meeting Workspace sites.
People	http://<Site>/_vti_bin/People.asmx	Provides methods for working with Principal objects.
Permissions	http://<Site>/_vti_bin/Permissions.asmx	Provides methods for working with the permissions for a site or list.
SharePoint Directory Management	(in stssoap.dll)	Provides classes that enable requests for various management operations for e-mail distribution groups.
Site Data	http://<Site>/_vti_bin/SiteData.asmx	Provides methods that return metadata or list data from sites or lists in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services.
Sites	http://<Site>/_vti_bin/Sites.asmx	Provides a method for returning information about the collection of site templates on the virtual server.
Search	http://<Site>/_vti_bin/spsearch.asmx	The QueryService class is the entry point for calling the Search in Windows SharePoint Services Query web service.
Users and Groups	http://<Site>/_vti_bin/usergroup.asmx	Provides methods for working with users, role definitions, and groups.
Versions	http://<Site>/_vti_bin/Versions.asmx	Provides methods for working with file versions.
Views	http://<Site>/_vti_bin/Views.asmx	Provides methods for working with views of lists.
Web Part Pages	http://<Site>/_vti_bin/WebPartPages.asmx	Provides methods for working with Web Parts.
Webs	http://<Site>/_vti_bin/Webs.asmx	Provides methods for working with sites and sub sites.

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Kang-Wei Ko

March 5. 2008 04:25

Which web service would I use to upload documents into a document library?

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Tony Testa

March 7. 2008 10:59

Kang-Wei,

Check out the UpdateListItems method of the Lists web service. Its CAML based, so you'll have to create CAML query.
msdn2.microsoft.com/.../...ts.updatelistitems.aspx

For an implementation of using the UpdateListItems method, check out
geek.hubkey.com/.../...to-sharepoint-document.html

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Gunter Troch

April 26. 2008 09:22

With the Administration webservice you can create top-level sites. I tried this and that works perfectly, but what I want to do is to create a site, just like you can create a site via 'Site Actions > Create site (Create a site under this site)'. But I don't know which webservice can do this. Do you have any idea?

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July 5. 2009 16:30

I tried this and that works perfectly, but what I want to do is to create a site, just like you can create a site via 'Site Actions > Create site'. But I don't know which webservice can do this. Do you have any idea?

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January 25. 2010 07:16