R – Creating a subsite/web via the Sharepoint Web Serivces – is it possible

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I'm trying to create/add a Sharepoint subsite on an existing site collection through the web service api (as oppposed to the object model or RPC), but I see no clear way on any of the Admin.asmx, Webs.asmx, Site.asmx, or Sites.asmx services to do so.

I can see ways to create a full site collection, lists, and list items, but not to create a subsite on an existing site collection.

Can someone please confirm whether or not there is a way on the out-of-the-box sharepoint web services to do this?

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It's exceedingly (well, maybe not exceedingly) easy to create your own SharePoint-aware web service. If the existing API isn't sufficient to meet your needs, then you might consider rolling your own to give you more domain-specific functionality. I found this MSDN article to be pretty helpful, and I rolled up the WSDL modifications into a post-build event to simplify the edit-build-deploy process.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms464040.aspx

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Try the Lists.GetListItems with a suitable CAML query.

A CAML query like

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should work; the field 'FileLeafRef' is where the filename is stored.

C# – Programmatically instantiate a web part page in Sharepoint

I'm going to take the route that this isn't a collaboration/publishing site as this isn't mentioned and wss is in the tag list. Pretty clunky in comparison to using a publishing site...

First choose the web part page template you'd like to use from:

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\1033\STS\DOCTEMP\SMARTPGS

Then set up a stream to the template and use SPFileCollection.Add() to add it to your document library. For example:

string newFilename = "newpage.aspx";
string templateFilename = "spstd1.aspx";
string hive = SPUtility.GetGenericSetupPath("TEMPLATE\\1033\\STS\\DOCTEMP\\SMARTPGS\\");
FileStream stream = new FileStream(hive + templateFilename, FileMode.Open);
using (SPSite site = new SPSite("http://sharepoint"))
using (SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb())
{
    SPFolder libraryFolder = web.GetFolder("Document Library");
    SPFileCollection files = libraryFolder.Files;
    SPFile newFile = files.Add(newFilename, stream);
}

Note: This solution assumes you have the US SharePoint version installed that uses the 1033 language code. Just change the path if different.

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