New Post: Publish a file with OfficialFile.asmx

Hi Marc,

thank you for your help. Let me first describe the setup. I use a document center and try to force the routing to the destination library. A normal update won't work to move the file. On a document center or recored center you have to use the web service OfficialFile.asmx. Previously I always got a 400 Bad Request.

Finally I found the solution to this problem. First the content of the file needs to be encoded to Base64 and the second thing is to wrap the content in a CDATA. After I added this to my code the routing works really charming.

    var moveFile = function (listItem, properties, byteData) {

        var soap = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>\
                        <soap12:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap12="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope">\
                          <soap12:Body>\
                            <SubmitFile xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/recordsrepository/">\
                              <fileToSubmit><![CDATA[' + B64.encode(byteData) + ']]></fileToSubmit>\
                              <properties>\
                                ' + properties + '\
                              </properties>\
                              <recordRouting>Test Document</recordRouting>\
                              <sourceUrl>' + host + "/" + fileServerRelativeUrl + '</sourceUrl>\
                              <userName>' + currentUserLoginName + '</userName>\
                            </SubmitFile>\
                          </soap12:Body>\
                        </soap12:Envelope>';

        var xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
        xmlhttp.open('POST', webUrl + '/_vti_bin/officialfile.asmx', true);
        xmlhttp.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'application/soap+xml; charset=utf-8');
        xmlhttp.setRequestHeader('SOAPAction', 'http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/recordsrepository/SubmitFile');
        xmlhttp.onreadystatechange = function () {
            if (xmlhttp.readyState == 4) {
                if (xmlhttp.status == 200) {
                    deleteItem(listItem);
                }
            }
        }
        xmlhttp.send(soap);

    };

Thank you for your proposal to help.
Stefan