Comments on: Accessing WebDAV in Microsoft Word Visual Basic

By: reena cutie

reena cutie — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 11:37:00 +0000

Hi
thats for the wonderful post
Just 1 question, is the password encrypted while sending the data to the WEBDAV server.Koz the password is written in plain text in the VBA code.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:44:39 +0000

Hi, this has been most helpful!
Is it possible to open files returned that use another program, powerpoints, pdfs, excel files etc?

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:44:23 +0000

Hello,
just wanted to say that you’re a life-saver ! No other place on the web to find this info. Such a gem !

By: steve

steve — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:39:30 +0000

I was able to figure out how to rename files/directories using WebDav. Here is some sample code.

origName is the original name that should be renamed.
parentPage is the full WebDAV path to where origName should be moved/renamed
newName is the new name for the file/folder
davFiles is an ADODB.RecordSet
davFile is an ADODB.Record

Do While Not davFiles.EOF
davFile.Open davFiles, , adModeReadWrite
If origName = davFile.Fields(“RESOURCE_PARSENAME”).Value Then
davFile.MoveRecord , parentPage & newName
davFile.Close
davFiles.MoveLast
Else
davFile.Close ‘ Always remember to Close the file!
davFiles.MoveNext ‘ Move the index to the next Record.
End If
Loop

By: Jeffrey Ridout

Jeffrey Ridout — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 11:45:36 +0000

I started looking into the issue, but since I’m running Windows 7 (x64) I keep getting:
-2147217895: Object or data matching the name, range, or selection criteria was not found within the scope of this operation.
This might be caused by new security restrictions, but I’m not sure. If I find a solution I’ll post it here.

By: steve

steve — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 23:12:27 +0000

@steve I tried both approaches for renaming a directory (e.g. both using davFile.MoveRecord and davFiles.Update "RESOURCE_PARSENAME" "NewName") Both approaches generated unsupported errors. Any suggestions?

By: steve

steve — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 08:25:56 +0000

Thanks for this excellent guide! It has helped me tremendously integrating some VBA code with our Wiki (Confluence). How could the above code be modified to rename an existing WebDAV directory?

Would you recommend updating RESOURCE_PARSENAME and davFiles to perform an ADODB.Recordset update, or davFile and perform an ADODB.Record MoveRecord?

And for deleting a file/directory, would you simply find the davFile and use the ADODB.Record DeleteRecord function or would you use the davFiles ADODB.RecordSet Delete function?

I assume that taking the RecordSet approach in either of the above would require closing the davFile first. Using davFile will require closing davFile after the move, but what about after a delete? Does anything need to be done after calling davFile.DeleteRecord other than setting davFile = Nothing (although I notice you never set dirFile = Nothing like you do davFiles and davDir) — is there still something to close after deleting the Record?

By: Jeffrey Ridout

Jeffrey Ridout — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:15:51 +0000

@NMTT Yes, listing 1 shows that the open function takes a username and password parameter.

By: NMTT

NMTT — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:01:26 +0000

Hi. Great Help!

But if my Web Dav server requires basic authentication, how can I directly open a document without opening the windows authentication dialog?

Is there some Open Command with username and pass parameters?

By: Jeffrey Ridout

Jeffrey Ridout — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:47:41 +0000

@Chad I’ve corrected a few typos and added an example document. I hope that helps. As an added bonus, I’ve added a URLDecode function that will translate the title from URL. No more %20. (Supports åäâöéèêëóòô…)