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Re: Mashup Code Samples - A Developer's Guide to Mashups and Microsoft SharePoint

ekivemark — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:27 -0000

I have been doing some more testing and think I have found one of the problems.

The examples here are very simplistic. SharePoint is more complicated than the examples make out. The biggest gotcha I have found is in the examples you have to be very aware of the item limit in the view being used. The Sharepoint WSDL for GetListItems only returns the contents of the first page of a view. As a precaution you may want to set the rowLimit value to a very high number.

I am still investigating other "anomalies" I have a couple of other lists with a large number of entries in them. I have copied the Tasks GetListItems example but these large lists do not want to display in XML or grid format in the mashlet maker.

Re: Mashup Code Samples - A Developer's Guide to Mashups and Microsoft SharePoint

ekivemark — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:38:57 -0000

Presto 2.7.0 provides some better integration with SharePoint.

I am successfully using Service Explorer to get at content in Sharepoint sites but all this does is confirm to me that SharePoint is NOT an end user tool. It is a development platform.

I am still struggling to extract useful information from SharePoint. It seems that it is necessary to set up a series of mashups. The first to get a list. Then you need to get a view. Then you can see in wires that there is data but piecing it together to display the content of your data is overly complex.

This is probably an opportunity for someone to develop a series of mashup macro templates that can be configured to allow lay users, like myself, to customize in order to extract the data from lists.