Creating a 'Link to a Document' Item in a SharePoint Document Library programmatically

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re: Creating a 'Link to a Document' Item in a SharePoint Document Library programmatically

jim hudson — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:05:24 GMT

you sir, are a Q@#$%# genius. thanks so much.

re: Creating a 'Link to a Document' Item in a SharePoint Document Library programmatically

Nilesh — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:01:28 GMT

Hi,

following is giving me System.ArgumentException : "Value does not fall within the expected range"

item["URL"] = itemUrl;

can anybody help please?

Following is the stack trace :

at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFieldCollection.GetField(String strName, Boolean bThrowException)

at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFieldCollection.GetField(String strName)

at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPListItem.SetValue(String strName, Object value, SPField field, Boolean protectFields)

at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPListItem.SetValue(String strName, Object value, Boolean protectFields)

at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPListItem.set_Item(String fieldName, Object value)

at Landam.Residential.Vortal.Web.UserEventListsItemReceiver.<>c__DisplayClass2.<ItemAdded>b__0()

at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSecurity.CodeToRunElevatedWrapper(Object state)

at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSecurity.<>c__DisplayClass4.<RunWithElevatedPrivileges>b__2()

at Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities.SecurityContext.RunAsProcess(CodeToRunElevated secureCode)

Regards,

Nilesh Thakkar

re: Creating a 'Link to a Document' Item in a SharePoint Document Library programmatically

Bhanu — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:26:53 GMT

You are excellent! Thank you so much for posting this.

re: Creating a 'Link to a Document' Item in a SharePoint Document Library programmatically

kagoodm — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:59:23 GMT

Is there a way to create a link to a file or a link to a fileshare within a document library WITHOUT having to do programming code? We haven't been able to figure it out. Any help would be great.

re: Creating a 'Link to a Document' Item in a SharePoint Document Library programmatically

Ashish — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:08:45 GMT

Thanks

it is really easiest way to create link to a document using code.

for new bee in SharePoint I will recommend to go thru:

http://www.d2design.be/sharepoint/link-to-a-document-in-another-document-library/#comment-209

hope it helps in understanding it better.

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James Shaw's Blog — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:23:20 GMT

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re: Creating a 'Link to a Document' Item in a SharePoint Document Library programmatically

David Tweito — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 04:18:16 GMT

For Nilesh:

If you're getting "Value does not fall within expected range" for this line:

item["URL"] = itemUrl;

it's most likely because your document library does not have the "Link to a Document" content type assigned.

In your library, go to settings//document library settings/advanced settings and make sure that "manage content types" is set to yes.

Next, return to the settings page, locate the "content types" seciton, and add from existing content types. Make sure you add "Link to a Document"

re: Creating a 'Link to a Document' Item in a SharePoint Document Library programmatically

binbui — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:09:03 GMT

How if i want to run in Japanese lacation ?

re: Creating a 'Link to a Document' Item in a SharePoint Document Library programmatically

binbui — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:13:25 GMT

When running on another location, ex Japanese or French, then the statement:

item["Content Type"] = "Link to a Document";

not correct.

Is there any solution to solve this?

re: Creating a 'Link to a Document' Item in a SharePoint Document Library programmatically

binbui — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:13:41 GMT

When running on another location, ex Japanese or French, then the statement:

item["Content Type"] = "Link to a Document";

not correct.

Is there any solution to solve this?

re: Creating a 'Link to a Document' Item in a SharePoint Document Library programmatically

green.cliff — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:48:24 GMT

I don't have another language pack installed to test this, but I imagine that the content type field will be called something else in the other language. Link to Document will probably be called something else also. I would use the object model to inspect a "Link to Document" item in the document library and output the Xml property so that you can see the internal field names for the item shown by the attributes on the SPListItem. This should provide you with the correct property name and value that you will need to use in that language. You can perhaps leverage the resource files to make your code dynamic so that it can change the field name based on the language being used.

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Veera — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:39:31 GMT

If I send the link of a LINK content type in an email message, the user cannot open the file by clicking on the link in the message. Copying and pasting this link in the browser works fine. Do you see a way around this?

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est — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:01:00 GMT

is there a way to make it link to the file in doc lib dynamically. such that it will always display the latest dated file in the folder or doc lib? instead of having to type the url manually

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green.cliff — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 04:38:48 GMT

veera,

sounds like something potentially wrong with the e-mail client.

est,

you would have to use a timer job or event receiver in order to montior the folder or doc lib and then update the content type directly. it will always link to the latest version of a file because the urls in sharepoint are static as long as the document doesn't move.

re: Creating a 'Link to a Document' Item in a SharePoint Document Library programmatically

est — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 08:31:15 GMT

Hi,

yep great. Is it okay if you provide more info on that? thanks alot

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green.cliff — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:34:19 GMT

est,

a search of the internet will provide tons of information related to timer jobs and event receivers. they are well documented, so you sholdn't have trouble finding a solution that fits your needs.

if you just want to display the latest file that was added to a folder in a document library you can create a view and sort by last created date or modified date and limit the results to 1 or you can use the spquery class to query the list like you would a database and display that information. in those cases you wouldn't need the link to document content type, just a way to show the latest file.

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est — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:35:25 GMT

wish it was so straightforward too. However, if i sort it based on the modified datetime. it will not get the most updated file by clicking the link.

for eg. today's date 20090420, so user upload the file.

however user realised theres changes made to 20090412's file. so in that case, 20090412 would be retrieve instead of 20090420's.

yep aware that there are alot info out there, however i dont rly understand why i need to make use of timer job and event receievers. do u think theres a need to?

thanks anyway

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green.cliff — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:46:11 GMT

It is not clear to me exactly what you are trying to do. I offered pointers based on some best guesses, but your description is difficult to understand the use case you are attempting to support.

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est — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:00:41 GMT

I apologise for that. However, can I post my question here (with details) but that would be long. Is there alternative I can post it instead? Hope to hear from you soon. thanks

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est — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 04:10:13 GMT

Hi, I've tried out the view mthod you mentioned earlier. Indeed it will always display the latest file uploaded.

For eg. I wanna to display the latest file uploaded in folder A, but lets say I upload file in folder B at a later time than folder A. It will display folder B's file even though the URL path to view the document was folderA's path. I guess this method doesnt work for different subfolder. isnt it?

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green.cliff — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:50:33 GMT

it sounds like you need to create a web part that queries the list for this information. YOu can use the SPQuery class or SPSiteDataQuery class to query the list and return the latest file to display to the user.

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piece of sharepoint — Thu, 28 May 2009 23:36:53 GMT

the api is huge and disgusting. there's no .createlinktoadocument method, or some variation that's much harder to figure out and only works sometimes?

re: Creating a 'Link to a Document' Item in a SharePoint Document Library programmatically

Bhaskar — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:22:06 GMT

You are one of the best programmer. Fantastic work and this is the only article on INTERNET which i could find.

although I wish there should have been something like

SPFile spFile = spFolder.File.Add(nameof the file, link to the document);

this would have been much easier.

Best,

Bhaskar

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Savin — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:10:04 GMT

Has anyone come up with a way to add a button to an item display screen to link to another list using information on the current item as a filter?

For instance, lets say I have a list of project codes and I also have a list of tasks. Could I create a link on the Display Project Info p[age to link to the Task List using the "project code" as a filter?

Or, lets say I have lots of documents in a folder and one of the columns is "project code" could I link to the list of documents using the current project code as a filter?

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Cliff — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 03:28:47 GMT

@savin,

I think you could use a QueryString Filter web part to link to the lists and filter that list based on the query string filter which would come from link you pass to the page. You would probably need a custom action or formula in order to build the query string appropriately to link to the other page. SPD could also be used to do this.

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Dheepa — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:09:24 GMT

This is very useful. Thanks. One suggestion is to check in the item after updating it.

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Seamus — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:26:39 GMT

Many thanks - really helped me out. Just one question re. the newly created aspx files - do they actually exist? I am probably missing the whole point, but when I hover over my newly created link it points to what appears to be a tangible aspx file which does not actually exist on the server - is this because the C:\linktodocumenttemplate.txt is just handling the redirect?

Great post, thanks again.

re: Creating a 'Link to a Document' Item in a SharePoint Document Library programmatically

green.cliff — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:41:15 GMT

The aspx files you have created are stored in the document library. When you click the link it opens this file which casues the redirect to occur.

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benjamin.beck — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:02:01 GMT

thnx man. great post.

was lookin for a solution for nearly a week now.

thank u very much