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Re: Writing CAML Queries For Retrieving List Items from a SharePoint List

cotswoldsbb — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:39:02 -0000

Thank you thank you thank you. Ive been looking everywhere for this exact article.

Good work..

Re: Writing CAML Queries For Retrieving List Items from a SharePoint List

sarangasl — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 03:12:13 -0000

Nice !!!!!!!!

Try this too,
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Re: Writing CAML Queries For Retrieving List Items from a SharePoint List

sweha — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:10:28 -0000

Hi,

I am trying to get listitems using the same method. I have a order no field in the list and some other fields are Customers which is a lookup and date which is a calculated column and Agency which is a text.

I am querying by order no.

I can retrieve Agency as it is a simple text, but I can't seem to get Customer name and Date as one is a lookup and one is a date. It is my necessity that I query by order number only and for each order number, get the rest of the data for each listitem.

Can you share your ideas please?

Re: Writing CAML Queries For Retrieving List Items from a SharePoint List

sandeepnahta — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:23:25 -0000

Offset option didn't work . it has to be OffsetDay='-7'

Re: Writing CAML Queries For Retrieving List Items from a SharePoint List

suzanne — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:47:52 -0000

I solved my problem by using U2U CAML builder. Great app!!!

Re: Writing CAML Queries For Retrieving List Items from a SharePoint List

suzanne — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:45:06 -0000

I installed the Employee training site template and have lists associated with that template. One of the lists is Past Registrations where items from another list are moved by workflow after an event. Weird thing: a query of this list (with no conditions) does not return all list items. What can I do?

Re: Writing CAML Queries For Retrieving List Items from a SharePoint List

scvinod — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:21:17 -0000

Hi Ms.Karine,

I'm not able to retrieve a column from a sharepoint list that has some empty values.I'm getting this error "Object referrence not set to instance of an object".Can anyone please help me out.

Re: Writing CAML Queries For Retrieving List Items from a SharePoint List

sharepoint guy — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:30:43 -0000

you need to use <Today OffsetDays="1" /> instead of <Today Offset="1"/> to make query work.

Re: Writing CAML Queries For Retrieving List Items from a SharePoint List

scvinod — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:26:55 -0000

Hi all,

Is it possible to write an IF function in a CAML query or is it possible to use a valure returned from a function???

Re: Writing CAML Queries For Retrieving List Items from a SharePoint List

scvinod — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:32:47 -0000

Hi Karine and others,

Hey guys i have column called "Managers" in my list in which i have to more than 1 value like this "vinod:sc" which means vinod and sc are the 2 managers.Is it possible in my CAML query to get the 2 values separately ???

Re: Writing CAML Queries For Retrieving List Items from a SharePoint List

scvinod — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:18:43 -0000

@bamarob55

that must becoz the internal field name of of the column "last Name"would different from what you see.Please get the internal field name by this code "list.Fields["Manager"].InternalName.ToString();" and then put the name tht u get in the CAML query.

Re: Writing CAML Queries For Retrieving List Items from a SharePoint List

bamarob55 — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:39:06 -0000

I'm having trouble getting all the fields to return. I'm having trouble with any fields that have a space in the field name. I.e.:

ndViewFields.InnerXml = "<FieldRef Name='Last Name'/><FieldRef Name='Author'/><FieldRef Name='Department'/><FieldRef Name='Crew'/>"

works fine to return Author, Department, and Crew, but the Last Name field doesn't get returned. Any tips you can provide would be much appreciated.

I'm using the "Retrieving List Items with CAML using the SharePoint Web Services" method.

Thanks,

Robert

Re: Writing CAML Queries For Retrieving List Items from a SharePoint List

vinod — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:34:35 -0000

Hi Karine n others,

Is it possible to write a CAML query within a CAML query.Please help me out.Thank you.

Re: Writing CAML Queries For Retrieving List Items from a SharePoint List

asdasd — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:42:35 -0000

Not able to get Recurrence Data in the response even after adding <ExpandRecurrences>TRUE</ExpandRecurrences>
Any suggestions

Re: Writing CAML Queries For Retrieving List Items from a SharePoint List

Zarko — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 05:36:26 -0000

I am building a custom workflow in SharePoint and I ise CAML query to retrive data about status of the task. However, at one point, an error started to arise: One or more field types are not properly installed... I checked internal nemes and everything is fine. The strangest thing is that the same code worked before. What can be the cause? I would extremely appriciate your help.

Thanks in advance

Re: Writing CAML Queries For Retrieving List Items from a SharePoint List

Jennifer Lewis — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:31:11 -0000

Excellent post, Karine!

This is one of the best posts that I've read on CAML. It's straightforward yet thorough. Unlike other articles that I've read about CAML, this one covers all scenarios.

Thank you very much!

Re: Writing CAML Queries For Retrieving List Items from a SharePoint List

Tim Landgrave — Tue, 26 May 2009 17:25:32 -0000

Is there any (easy) way to call Lists.ASMX from an Infopath 2007 form and use the results in a dropdown?

Re: Writing CAML Queries For Retrieving List Items from a SharePoint List

Dylan — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:25:30 -0000

Hi Boske,

This is the only place that I found this useful information about getting Calendar data throug lists.asmx webservice. But I got a problem and not sure why it behave this way. Basically, I was able to get calendar data from this month with all recurrence events. But when I click Next month, I put this code like you suggest in QueryOptions to set CalendarDate to the next month but it doesn't seem to effect anything. It's always return me the all events for the current month and upto the same day next month (e.i: if I query from today 4/21/2009, I'll get everything from April upto May 21) I can't seem to get further. Please help...

Thanks

XmlNode queryOptionsNode = camlDocument.CreateElement("QueryOptions");queryOptionsNode.InnerXml = "<ExpandRecurrences>TRUE</ExpandRecurrences>" + "<CalendarDate>2009-05-21T01:00:00Z</CalendarDate>";

Re: Writing CAML Queries For Retrieving List Items from a SharePoint List

Florian — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:09:09 -0000

Hello, I m lookin to retrieve the direct link to a document in my CAML query result, who can I do that??
I'm usintgSPSIteDataQuery accross multiple SubSite and use the SPWeb.GetSiteData(myCamlQuery)
thanks in advance!

Re: Writing CAML Queries For Retrieving List Items from a SharePoint List

Andrew — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:22:53 -0000

Hello. Thank you for the helpful article.

I'm curious - has the method for expanding recurring calendar events over webservices been tested?

I have been able to get it working "server-side", as described in the iCal article; however - no combination of options seems to work for expanding recurring events using the web services interface.

Re: Writing CAML Queries For Retrieving List Items from a SharePoint List

John Dieter — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:52:24 -0000

How can you debug SPException "Cannot Complete this action" ? My query looks fine. But if I try to access myListItemCollection.Count I get the error

Re: Writing CAML Queries For Retrieving List Items from a SharePoint List

sayvidyasagar — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:35:48 -0000

Excellent introduction on CAML query creation. In real time I am facing some prolem, can any one please suggest me the solution. In SharePoint list I have 5 columns: Title, Description, submitter, status and Published Date. My query should be like:
(Status = ‘Published’ AND Published Date=’10/10/2008’) AND (title contains ‘xyz’ OR descrition contains ’abcd’ OR submitter conains ‘aaa’)

Re: Writing CAML Queries For Retrieving List Items from a SharePoint List

agnel — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:26:13 -0000

My list contains folders as list items.Can anyone help how to sort folder in list.

Re: Writing CAML Queries For Retrieving List Items from a SharePoint List

Akshaya — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 02:43:23 -0000

Hi

I use the U2U caml builder gor queries and I use the shpt web services to retrieve data.

I am facing a problem. When I want to get the data from a particular view of the list, I pass the view name of the getlistitems method and it returns me the rows belonging to that view only.

However, when I try getting the data from a view based on a query, the query returns the data from the all items view rather than from that particular view only, and as a result I get extra rows, what should i do to prevent this?

Thanks a lot

Akshaya

Re: Writing CAML Queries For Retrieving List Items from a SharePoint List

john — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:14:34 -0000

Thank you, thank you. I wish I had saw this post last week. This cleared up a lot of questions!