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Re: Easy alternate way to delete Sharepoint files

anotherchrisberry — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 01:50:53 GMT

I was trying UpdateListItems in SharePoint 2003.

For some reason, I never got an error message - it just failed to delete the file.

Thanks to Matt Everhart for figuring this out.

Re: Easy alternate way to delete Sharepoint files

Patrick Halstead — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 23:50:33 GMT

Thanks AnotherChrisBerry!
Your approach of using HTTP is even simpler than the UpdateListItems method. I wonder if the latter doesn't work because of a version issue. Which version of SharePoint are you running?

Easy alternate way to delete Sharepoint files

anotherchrisberry — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 22:08:04 GMT

I tried - and failed - to get this code to work to delete a file from Sharepoint:
http://www.infopathdev.com/howto/tutorials/default.aspx?i=1d52979046884d8186c9393a1ea95109

This, however, works like a champ (for me, at least):

oXmlHttp = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
oXmlHttp.open("DELETE", myURL, false);
oXmlHttp.send();

Where "myURL" is the file URL you are trying to delete.

[A friend of mine discovered this]

Cheers!