Comments on: Writing CAML Queries For Retrieving List Items from a SharePoint List

By: sayvidyasagar

sayvidyasagar — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 01:35:48 +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’)

By: agnel

agnel — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:26:13 +0000

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

By: Akshaya

Akshaya — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:43:23 +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

By: john

john — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:14:34 +0000

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

By: martin

martin — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:38:58 +0000

…also, be sure that authentication as enabled at endpoint… (lost a good hour there)

By: jamil

jamil — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:55:35 +0000

this is the best, simple, attractive, satisfying, shortest article i have read in my life. you have an amazing way!!!!

By: masha

masha — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:57:46 +0000

thank you for great article=)

By: SharePoint for Developers: 3.3 Hands-on - querying lists - Gunnar Peipman's ASP.NET blog

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:04:20 +0000

[...] There are also some other options you can set with query. SharePointMagazine has great article by Karine Bosch Writing CAML Queries For Retrieving List Items from a SharePoint List. [...]

By: vin

vin — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:02:05 +0000

Hi Karin,

After successfully retrieving the records using the GetListItems method, how can I use the result so I can insert it in a SQL table?

Thanks in advance

By: Santro

Santro — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:47:03 +0000

Hello Karine,
Thanks a lot for the wonderful post. I read the full post and just got every thing which I was looking for.

By: Heiko Hatzfeld

Heiko Hatzfeld — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:46:08 +0000

Thanks for a great post.

Very interesting and informative overview.

By: Karine Bosch

Karine Bosch — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:59:40 +0000

There exist a number of community tools that help you generate your CAML. Another tool is the U2U CAML Query Builder. Besides a user interface in which you can design your queries, you can also use the DLLs from within your code to generate the necessary CAML.
Karine

By: Garth

Garth — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:55:03 +0000

Karin,
Thank you for this posting. I've been doing a fair amount of CAML lately and have used this page as a starting point for alot of my work.

Thanks

By: furuknap

furuknap — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:05:37 +0000

Great article!

I would like to point out a great tool by John Holliday called CAML.net which helps write the CAML code for you and prevents quite a lot of typo errors. It is available on CodePlex at http://codeplex.com/camldotnet/

By: Arno Nel (SharePoint Magazine)

Arno Nel (SharePoint Magazine) — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:08:15 +0000

wow, great introduction to CAML from the CAML girl herself