Depending on the width of your screen, this may only appear as an icon. Once you click on it, you’ll see your files in a regular Explorer Window. Depending on your Explorer settings, you may also see a folder named forms. Do not touch that folder, and do not attempt to add a new folder named forms…. That folder contains the files necessary to properly render the library in a browser. Once you do this, your system will “remember” this library and you will be able to to navigate directly to it through the Network node of your Explorer window. You can also add this link directly, by right clicking on your computer in the explorer view, selecting Add Network Location, and entering the URL of your library (or server) there. This is all possible due to the magic of WebDAV (Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning). It’s a protocol for transferring binary files over http and is what is behind the concept of web folders. It’s an interesting acronym because the none of the implementations of the protocol that I’ve ever seen (it’s been around for about 12 years now) have anything at all to do with versioning,but I digress.įor any of this to work,the WebClient service must be running on the client machine, and if you’re using a server operating system, the Desktop Experience must be installed. If you’re opening the files in Word, Excel etc, those applications understand that they’re opening content in SharePoint and they’ll happily write directly back to it……in most cases. The problem is that what is actually happening is that the file is being brought down locally, and synchronized back to the server, or written back directly by the application. ![]() We recently came across a case where we were using an Excel spreadsheet that was stored in SharePoint as a data source in an SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services) process. \ ServerURLDavEverything worked just fine, but the package was not picking up any changes. Server URL can be a FQDN or a machine name, depending on your configuration, and the site structure begins after DavIt’s probably a good idea to use the UNC path whenever you need to programmatically access files stored on SharePoint. I’m running into an issue where I try to open the file from an Office program i.e. Word or Excel and it can’t find the document at the location. Then it gives me the prompt saying Excel can’t access the file for several reasons: Path does not exist, file being used by another program, workbook has the same name as the currently openeed workbook. The account I am using has site collection administrator rights on the Sharepoint site in question. What I am trying to do is use the UNC path to the document library to grab source excel files for our SSIS package, the exact same way you explained in your post.
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