OBJECT REFERENCE

Objective• How to work with objects in SharePoint by using classes?

Learning Method• Help yourself and help your friends next to you.• You must address the bug by yourself.• I give you frequent bugs that allows you to know the point

to fix.• Lessons are designed to increment the content on the

previous lessons.

Lecture Step• Explain objective of the lab.• Explain related class.• Do the lab. Writing the code.• Point out the frequent bug.

Case Study’s Background• Office of Human Resources• It responses for

• Recruit employee• Manage salary, other benefits and tax• Check time attendance• Manage personnel development.

Existing Problem• There are a large amount of document in which the office

has to handle for thousands of employees. • These documents occupied the room space.• Searching these documents, it takes time.• The university has several campuses, transporting

document use a messenger. It takes time and document may be lost or damaged in travelling.

Assignment• You as an IT developer; are assigned to develop content

management system for the Office of Human Resource Management (OHRM).

Design Workspace

Object Name & URL

Survey site collection by SharePoint Interface

• Open Vmware lab file from path:

myDocuments\KM WSS Office VS Student

Create Project• Open Visual Studio

Two ways of Code Implementation• Inline code• Code-behind

LAB 01.01OBJECTREFERENCE

Learning Objective• This lesson will learn about how to reference to objects, to

manipulate objects in the site collection by using different classes.

Related Class for SharePoint Object

Topic• SPSite

• Instantiate site collection object:

• SPWeb• Create web site object

• Top-level site, rootweb• Specific website• Compress form

• Enumerate all websites in site collection.

• SPList• Refer to all lists in site• Refer to specific List

• SPListItem• Refer to all ListItems in List• Refer to Folder in List

• SPField• Enumerate field name or column name in List.

• Display data in ListItem for a specific field.

SITE COLLECTION

• Objective: how to create site collection object.• Class: SPSite

Class: SPSite

Page Load event

Frequent Bug• SPSite(“http://portal”) • It is ( ) parentheses. • Not [ ] bracket

REFER TO SITE / WEBSITE

• Objective• How to refer to Top-level site• How to refer to Site, Subsite

• Class• SPWeb

Class: SPWeb

Lab• Objective

• Enumerate Url of all sites in SiteCollection.• Enumerate Name of all sites in SiteCollection.

• Class• SPSite.AllWebs

Loop: foreach• The foreach statement allows you to iterate through all the

items in an array or other collection, examining each item in turn.

LIST OR DOCUMENT LIBRARY

• Objective:• Refer to all lists in site• Refer to specific List.

Lab: Enumerate all Title of Lists in site “DocCenter”

Refer to specific List.

LIST ITEM

• Objective• Reference all ListItem in List

• Class• SPList.Items

Class: SPList.Items

Lab: Enumerate Filename of all ListItem in List “Profile”

FOLDER

• Objective:• Reference folder including subfolder.

• Class• SPList.Folders

01.02ObjectReferenceDropDownList

Objective• Apply object reference to controls: DropDownList, ListBox.• Page processing sequence: page postback• Filter Lists

Requirement

1. When a program is loaded, the dropdownlist displays all websites in the site collection.

2. When a user selects a website from DropDownList, Lists associated under the website will display in ListBox.

3. Lists will be filtered Non-hidden list.