RE: Get currently filtered view using JSOM

2014-08-17 Thread Paul Noone
Where were you two days ago? :) That's exactly what I wound up doing after spending far too long examining the various SP js classes to work out how they achieved it internally. I wound up writing my own average code to strip out the filter key/value pairs and then apply them dynamically to

Use a newtwork share as the source for a document library

2014-08-17 Thread Paul Noone
Hi all, Has anyone successfully achieved this? I have terabytes worth of CAD files and other types that are simply not suitable to storing in a DB. I want to provide a Document Library view of this location and provide basic read/write (upload) functionality. Would my best option be a custom

RE: Use a newtwork share as the source for a document library

2014-08-17 Thread James Boman
Paul, Have you considered using FILESTREAM storage on the SQL server for storing the files as files, while still keeping the benefits of housing them in a SharePoint document library? Cheers, James. James Boman ■ Phone:

RE: Use a newtwork share as the source for a document library

2014-08-17 Thread Paul Noone
Hi James, I'm open to both. My understanding is they want to a way to easily access or dump files (when offline) for these types of files. · Does using SharePoint synch button on a library physically copy the entire library to the local PC? · Can I specify a UNC path to a

RE: Use a newtwork share as the source for a document library

2014-08-17 Thread James Boman
Paul, Does using SharePoint synch button on a library physically copy the entire library to the local PC? Yes - as far as I know it will copy the entire library to the local machine for offline use. Dumping of files into the same path will cause OneDrive for Business upload them in the

RE: Use a newtwork share as the source for a document library

2014-08-17 Thread Ivan Wilson
My experience with OneDrive for Business has been very poor. It only supports a limited number of files and folders in a sync location (20,000 in your My Site library, 5,000 in other libraries - linkhttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/2933738). It has constantly run into issues for me, with the

RE: Use a newtwork share as the source for a document library

2014-08-17 Thread Paul Noone
Well I can disable download availability per library thank goodness. But the following limitations are potential blockers unless there's an easy way to expand out to new databases as each one fills up. · The use of RBS-enabled content databases larger than 200GB with collaboration