The users have documents in Sharepoint document library. I need to be able to get the urls of these documents easy within Visio. Would I need to write something in VBA which gets the urls of these documents from Sharepoint, or is there an easier option ?
I have looked at the net use command so they can map a drive but that does not give the url.
anyone done anything like this before ?
SharePoint exposes XML interfaces that you can use to determine elements in a table or items in a library (which is a known and static location in SharePoint).
What you can use and how you access it will depend on your version of SharePoint and how it is configured on your network. However, there are plenty of examples on the internet that you can search in your favourite search engine (Alta Vista anyone?) which will get you started with some code. I expect you will have some specific questions once you start coding.
It has been a while since I did this.
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We are in the process of building a website from scratch from an existing website. The web page is an identical copy, and as the web page contains many pages we need a way to compare content between the sites. It is of course possible to do manually, but it takes both a lot of time and entails a risk of human errors.
I have seen that there are services that offer this by inputting two URLs which are then analyzed and where discrepancies are presented. However, these cannot be used as our test environment is local (built in Sitecore).
Is there a way to solve this without making our test environment available online (which is not possible)? For example, does software exist for this, or alternatively some service where you can compare a web page that is online with one that is local?
Note that we're only looking for content comparison (not visual).
(Un)fortunately there's many ways to do this, but fortunately there are some simple ones.
What I would do is:
Get a list of URLs for each site. If the Sitemap is exhaustive, then you could use that, if it's not you might want to run some Sitecore Powershell to get the lists.
Given the lists (from files, or Sitecore API or something), write a program to visit each URL, get the text of the page after it's done rendering, and save it to disk (something like Selenium is good for this and you can use any language). You'll want some folder structure like host/urlpart/urlpart/pagename.txt, basically the same as your content tree.
Use some filesystem diff program like WinMerge to compare the two folders
This is quick and dirty, but a good place to start.
I want' to organize generation reports in *.docx format using MS Word api. But I can't find any service which allow work with that api ( First I hope find it in office365 but I didn't ).
There are list of api's for js/python etc.
http://dev.office.com/reference/add-ins/javascript-api-for-office
Or possible you can share experience how to organize such tasks.
In general we use *nix stack, so cloud solution is the best variant.
At the moment, only Excel provides such an API (currently in beta).
You could generate a .docx directly but it fair warning, this can be non-trivial to get set up. Technically a .docx uses OOXML which is just a zipped collection of xml files.
I have been trying for a few days to figure out how to allow a set of customers to view a specific set of documents in OpenERP's knowledge management module. The goal is to easily add access to various sets of documents to existing customers. My particular use is that I deliver three different types of training sessions each of which has a set of materials in pdf format. I would like to offer all the attendees access to those materials through OpenERP (since they are already in the system as customers). I am not using the Events modules and I am not particularly interested in exploring it at this time.
Setup that I have tried:
Have some existing customers with at least a name and email address
Create a "Directory" in Knowledge->Document Management->Directories
Add a few pdf files in Knowledge->Documents each with the directory just created
Create a "Group" in Settings->Groups
... ???
I've tried various combinations of access rights, rules, users, etc. but nothing seems simple and nothing works exactly as I'm hoping: namely that a customer receives access through the web client to a clearly labeled menu that then shows them exactly the set of documents that they are allowed to access.
I have also tried the various "Share" features that can be done with documents, but again, they don't seem to work well for existing customers, nor so well with groups of related documents.
I have been able to get a user (not a customer) to get restricted access to see only a small set of the documents in the Knowledge Management system, but even there I'm having a hard time restricting that user to see only the documents that are in the specified directory.
I've taken a look at a number of sites (including ZestyBeanz) that describe various means of getting users to access the portal / limited features of OpenERP.
My OpenERP installation is self-hosted on Amazon so I have full control. I have written sophisticated modules for OpenERP and I am a reasonably capable Python programmer so please feel free to get seriously technical if that would help. I'm willing to consider writing a custom module to enable what I feel should be an obvious and easy feature, but that really seems like overkill!
To be clear: either a configuration or programming solution would be fine by me.
I've searched around for some answers to this, but nothing I found seemed to work. I'm good with VBA, but Sharepoint is not my cup of tea. We have a corporate Sharepoint site on the web (https) where different regions submit metrics using Excel. Each Excel file is placed in the region's respective folder.
What I want to be able to do is use a local workbook to navigate to the Sharepoint site, go through the folders, open each Excel workbook, and aggregate the numbers together. The closest I've come so far is this.
However, let's say my site is:
[https://teams.mycompany.com/SubTeamFolder/Forms/AllItems.aspx.]
Nothing gets returned when I set the site variable to this in the code from the link above. If I set the site variable to something like:
[https://teams.mycompany.com/SubTeamFolder/AllItems/]
it throws error
-2147217895
.
I'm open to other approaches here. Like I said, this one seemed the most promising till I hit this wall.
Just as an FYI for those who come across this, here is how I worked through this. In the link submitted by #ARich, I went towards the bottom and used the Export to Excel functionality. This let me see the underlying path for my objects. I was then able to use the code I linked to in my original post to see the underlying folders. If you need to, insert a couple of breakpoints once you successfully connect to your target Sharepoint site to follow along with the recursive movement from parent to child object. Taking it a step further, you can then open the files using this.
Basically all I want to do is to get the total storage space of subsites, document libraries and lists within a site collection. There does not seem to be a possible way to do it besides:
using site.StorageManagementInformation which is currently Obsolete
SPSite.UsageInfo this can only work for site collection:
SPSite.UsageInfo usageInfo = spSite.Usage;
long storageUsed = usageInfo.Storage;
SPWeb.GetUsageData which only gets the current day(and up to the last 31 days) usage data.
finding the database table where Site Collection Administration > Storage Metrics is querying from (which I could not find even with using a .NET Reflector for the assembly)
If anyone has any other way or idea on how to achieve this it would be very much appreciated!
my suggestion is to try opening the site you are accessing via SharePoint Designer and right click any those collections then click properties. The size of the objects should be shown there as well. :)