Sharepoint & Pivotal

Having run out of patience with users filling up the database with documents, a client has requested to link Pivotal with Sharepoint.

This became my first delve into webservices. The project involved creation of a sharepoint folder and subfolders whenever a company was created and displaying the result in a websegment. The issues I faced where mainly not understanding the webservice requirements, but a few days of playing with them got it working.

I then had to do a mass production of folders for the existing companies, by calling the .NET appserver rule via an agent, and seems to work reasonably well.

Things that I still need to include are code when the company changes name (creating a new folder, moving contents of old folder, then deleting the old folder) and security. It may be necessary to prevent certain users adding additional folders and seeing the contents of the folders I have created, but that is for another day.