R – Add SharePoint Document List to Quick Launch through Web Services

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I'm creating Document Libraries in SharePoint with the Webservice Lists.AddList method through a C#.Net application. (See below)

listsService.AddList(listTitle, listDescription, 101);

I would like them to show up in the Quick Launch menu under the site they're created in rather than just the 'All Site Content' menu.

I've had a look at the Lists.UpdateList() Method, but without much luck.

Does anyone know how to do this through Web Services? (It cannot be done manually as there are far too many lists to change).

I'm using the latest version of SharePoint Server and Web Services.

Thankyou 🙂

Best Answer

I believe you are correct that setting OnQuickLaunch isn't available through the web service. Setting OnQuickLaunch in listProperties for UpdateList is what I would try, but it sounds like that doesn't work.

If your lists didn't already exist, I would suggest creating a feature with a list template with OnQuickLaunch="true" and adding the lists via AddListFromFeature. Your other option would seem to be to write your own service to set the property through the object model.

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    CopyService2007.ClientCredentials.Windows.ClientCredential = 
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    CopyService2007.ClientCredentials.Windows.AllowedImpersonationLevel = 
        System.Security.Principal.TokenImpersonationLevel.Delegation;

    CopyService2007.CopyIntoItems(destinationUrl, destinationUrls, info, fileData, out result);

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SharePoint web services “Unable to connect to the remote server”

Sean,

I'm not sure I completely understand your calling pattern, but if you are indeed looping back to web services on the same box, you might be running into the infamous loopback issue:

https://serverfault.com/questions/32345/ie-8-authentication-denied-on-local-sharepoint-site/32485#32485

In short: executing hostname-based HTTP calls that loopback to the server from which they're issued can get blocked. If the loopback issue is in-play, you'll be able to call the web services in PROD from another box ... but not from the PROD box itself (i.e., looping back). I think this is consistent with the behavior you described above.

If Windows patch levels are different between your environments, it might explain why your code is failing in PROD but not in your other environments.

I hope this helps!

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