SharePoint automation

jdporter has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Does anyone have any experience scripting SharePoint? I want/need to import whole directory structures full of documents into my SharePoint site. I understand that WebDAV is probably the protocol to use; if so, then HTTP::DAV could be useful. But if anyone has any more info that could help get me started, or even sample code for talking to SharePoint, that would be very helpful.
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Re: SharePoint automation by NetWallah (Canon) on Feb 02, 2006 at 02:57 UTC
This is probably easier than you think. Why script it ? Does this need to be done repeatedly ? If I remember right, I was able to open my Sharepoint "document library" ine "Explorer" mode, and drag a file structure into it. YMMV. I also find documents on the web allowing you direct access into Sharepoint's SQL database, where everything is a list. so, DBI may be a candidate approach . Hmmm : it would be a great idea to come up with a DBI::Sharepoint module. "For every complex problem, there is a simple answer ... and it is wrong." --H.L. Mencken	[reply]
Re: SharePoint automation by roboticus (Chancellor) on Mar 06, 2008 at 20:20 UTC
jdporter: I just got out of a meeting where I learned that I'll have to be publishing some reports to SharePoint. So I did a little googling, and found that under Windows, you can access a sharepoint site via a UNC name. The URL: `sharepoint.domain.dom/sites/Roboticus/Test` is accessible via: `\\sharepoint.domain.com\sites\Roboticus\Test` So if you're running your code on a Windows client, you may be able to just treat it as another directory. (That's what I'm planning on doing.) ...roboticus	[reply] [d/l] [select]


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