How to move document to different folder in SharePoint library with web services

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I am desperately trying to move a document in a document library from one folder to another (yes, within the same library). All this is needed to be done through web services.

I am using UpdateListItems method with batching XML like this:

<Batch>
 <Method ID="1" Cmd="Update">
    <Field Name="ID">14</Field>
    <Field Name="ServerUrl">personal/blabla/Documents/CT-5/image.jpg</Field>
 </Method>
</Batch>

I have tried updating various fields instead of ServerUrl above – none with luck…

Thanks for any hints…

Best Answer

So eventually I found a way to get around this by using WebDAV. And sorry the question was posed incorrectly - I really did not need web services, rather whatever was available for me to use from a remote ASP.NET site. Here's the (simple) code to have a file moved:

WebRequest lRequest = WebRequest.Create(sourceUrl);
lRequest.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;
lRequest.Method = "MOVE";

lRequest.Headers.Add("Destination", targetUrl);
var lResponse = lRequest.GetResponse();
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