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Sharepoint Web Services Reference

3. March 2011
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There are a number of web services implemented OOTB (out of the box) in SharePoint that can be used to address most of the common and basic tasks - from administrative tasks to search and working with list data, and much more.

Following is a listing of the SharePoint web services with an overview of the functionality exposed for your reference:

Service Administration
(_vti_adm/Admin.asmx) Administrative methods for creating deleting sites and retrieving languages used in the deployment
  • CreateSite
  • DeleteSite
  • GetLanguage
  • RefreshConfigCache
Alerts (Alerts.asmx) Methods for working with SharePoint list item alerts
  • DeleteAlerts
  • GetAlerts
Authentication (Authentication.asmx) Client proxy that provides user authentication for sites that use forms-based authentication
  • Login (Used to authenticate)
  • Mode (Returns the authentication mode of the current site)
Copy (Copy.asmx) Methods to copy files between or within sites
  • CopyIntoItems (Copy document as byte array to location on server)
  • CopyIntoItemsLocal (Copy document from one location on the same server to another)
  • GetItem (Creates a byte array of a document that can be passed to theCopyIntoItems method)
Document Workspace (Dws.asmx) Methods for managing Document Workspace sites and data
  • CanCreateDwsUrl
  • CreateDws
  • CreateFolder
  • FindDwsDoc
  • GetDwsData
  • GetDwsMetaData
  • RemoveDwsUser
  • RenameDws
  • UpdateDwsData
Forms (Forms.asmx) Methods for returning forms that are used in the user interface when working with the contents of a list
  • GetForm
  • GetFormCollection
Imaging (Imaging.asmx) Methods to create and manager picture libraries
  • CheckSubwebAndList
  • CreateNewFolder
  • Delete
  • Download
  • Edit
  • GetItemsByIds
  • GetItemsXMLData
  • GetListItems
  • ListPictureLibrary
  • Rename
  • Upload
List Data Retrieval (DspSts.asmx) Perform queries against sites and list in SharePoint
  • Query (Performs queries against SharePoint lists and sites)
Lists (Lists.asmx) Methods for working with Lists and List Data
  • AddAttachment
  • AddDiscussionBoardItem
  • AddList
  • AddListFromFeature
  • ApplyContentTypeToList
  • DeleteAttachment
  • DeleteContentType
  • DeleteContentTypeXmlDocument
  • DeleteList
  • GetAttachmentCollection
  • GetList
  • GetListAndView
  • GetListCollection
  • GetListContentType
  • GetListContentTypes
  • GetListItemChanges
  • GetListItemChangesSinceToken
  • GetListItems
  • GetVersionCollection
  • UndoCheckout
  • UpdateContentType
  • UpdateContentTypesXmlDocument
  • UpdateContentTypeXmlDocument
  • UpdateList
  • UpdateListItems
Meetings(Meetings.asmx) Create and manage Meeting Workspace Sites
  • AddMeeting
  • AddMeetingFromICal
  • CreateWorkspace
  • DeleteWorkspace
  • GetMeetingInformation
  • GetMeetingWorkspaces
  • RemoveMeeting
  • RestoreMeeting
  • SetAttendeeResponse
  • SetWorkspaceTitle
  • UpdateMeeting
  • UpdateMeetingFromICal
People(People.asmx) Resolve and find Principals
  • ResolvePrincipals
Permissions (Permissions.asmx) Methods for working with permissions for a site or list
  • AddPermission
  • AddPermissionCollection
  • GetPermissionCollection
  • RemovePermission
  • RemovePermissionCollection
  • UpdatePermission
Directory Management(sharepointemailws.asmx) Methods for managing Active Directory e-mail distribution groups and their memberships
  • ChangeContactsMembershipInDistributionGroup
  • ChangeUsersmembershipInDistributionGroup
  • CreateContact
  • CreateDistributionGroup
  • DeleteContact
  • DeleteDistributionGroup
  • GetJobStatus
  • ModifyContact
  • ModifyDistributionGroup
  • RenameDistributionGroup
Site Data (SiteData.asmx) Methods that return metadata or list data from sites or lists
  • EnumerateFolder
  • GetAttachments
  • GetChanges
  • GetContent
  • GetList
  • GetListCollection
  • GetListItems
  • GetSite
  • GetSiteAndWeb
  • GetSiteUrl
  • GetURLSegments
  • GetWeb
Sites(Sites.asmx) Methods for returning information about the collection or site template
  • ExportWeb
  • GetSiteTemplates
  • GetUpdatedFormDigest
  • ImportWeb
Search(spsearch.asmx) Methods for searching via search services
  • Query
  • QueryEx
  • Registration
  • Status
Users & Groups(usergroup.asmx) Methods for working with users role definitions and groups
  • AddGroup
  • AddGroupToRole
  • AddRole
  • AddRoleDef
  • AddUserCollectionToGroup
  • AddUserCollectionToRole
  • AddUserToGroup
  • AddUserToRole
  • GetAllUserCollectionFromWeb
  • GetGroupCollection
  • GetList
  • GetListAndView
  • GetListCollection
  • GetGroupCollectionFromRole
  • GetGroupCollectionFromSite
  • GetGroupCollectionFromUser
  • GetGroupCollectionFromWeb
  • GetGroupInfo
  • GetRoleCollection
  • GetRoleCollectionFromGroup
  • GetRoleCollectionFromUser
  • GetRoleCollectionFromWeb
  • GetRoleInfo
  • GetRolesAndPermissionsForCurrentUser
  • GetRolesAndPermissionsForSite
  • GetUserCollection
  • GetUserCollectionFromGroup
  • GetUserCollectionFromRole
  • GetUserCollectionFromSite
  • GetUserCollectionFromWeb
  • GetUserInfo
  • GetUserLoginFromEmail
  • RemoveGroup
  • RemoveGroupFromRole
  • RemoveRole
  • RemoveUserCollectionFromGroup
  • RemoveUserCollectionFromRole
  • RemoveUserCollectionFromSite
  • RemoveUserFromGroup
  • RemoveUserFromRole
  • RemoveUserFromSite
  • RemoveUserFromWeb
  • UpdateGroupInfo
  • UpdateRoleDefInfo
  • UpdateRoleInfo
  • UpdateUserInfo
Versions (Versions.asmx) Methods for working with file versions
  • DeleteAllVersions
  • DeleteVersion
  • GetVersions
  • RestoreVersion
Views(Views.asmx) Methods for working with list views
  • AddView
  • DeleteView
  • GetViewCollection
  • GetViewHtml
  • UpdateView
  • UpdateViewHtml
  • UpdateViewHtml2
Web Part Pages(WebPartPages.asmx) Methods for working with Web Part Pages
  • AddWebPart
  • AddWebPartToZone
  • AssociateWorkflowMarkup
  • ConvertWebPartFormat
  • DeleteWebPart
  • ExecuteProxyUpdates
  • FetchLegalWorkflowActions
  • GetAssemblyMetaData
  • GetBindingResourceData
  • GetCustomControlList
  • GetDataFromDataSourceControl
  • GetFormCapabilityFromDataSourceControl
  • GetSafeAssemblyInfo
  • GetWebPart
  • GetWebPart2
  • GetWebPartCrossPageCompatibility
  • GetWebPartPage
  • GetWebPartPageConnectionInfo
  • GetWebPartPageDocument
  • GetWebPartProperties
  • GetWebPartProperties2
  • RemoveWorkflowAssociation
  • RenderWebPartForEdit
  • SaveWebPart
  • SaveWebPart2
  • ValidateWorkflowMarkupAndCreateSupportObjects
Webs(Webs.asmx) Methods for working with sites and subsites
  • CreateContentType
  • CustomizeCss
  • DeleteContentType
  • GetActivatedFeatures
  • GetAllSubWebCollection
  • GetColumns
  • GetContentType
  • GetContentTypes
  • GetCustomizedPageStatus
  • GetListTemplates
  • GetWeb
  • GetWebCollection
  • RemoveContentTypeXmlDocument
  • RevertAllFileContentStreams
  • RevertCss
  • RevertFileContentStream
  • UpdateColumns
  • UpdateContentType
  • UpdateContentTypeXmlDocument
  • WebUrlFromPageUrl
MOSS Search (Search.asmx) Methods for searching via MOSS (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server) Search services, which also includes a method to
retrieve the managed search properties
  • GetSearchMetadata (Search managed properties)
  • Query
  • QueryEx
  • Registration
  • Status

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