#SNYNC SHAREPOINT TASK IN OUTLOOK DOWNLOAD#

The UpdateListItems method uploads the changes to SharePoint.Īnd the updated values are displayed in our SharePoint list as well. Next, I’ve set a new category for the task in Outlook. We can resolve it – and add some color codes as well – by clicking New… on the dialog box.Īfter this configuration, Outlook handles our categories as known ones. When opening Task 2, we found that our category values are not in the Master Category List. Note, that I’ve specified two values in this case, separated by a comma.Īs expected the values are synchronized down to Outlook, as shown in this view, grouped by the Categories field. Set a test value for the field at the existing task,Īnd created a new one with other test values. To provide the Categories field for our tasks, I’ve added the existing site column with the same name to the list. I’ve modified the task description, and found that on the next synchronization the UpdateListItems method was called to upload changes to SharePoint.īefore and after calling the UpdateListItems method the GetListItemChangesSinceToken method was called to detect possible conflicts and synchronize back changes from server. I’ve created a new task item in the list to see how it is downloaded to Outlook.Īgain, the GetListItemChangesSinceToken method was called, in this case there was a token in the request ( changeToken is not shown below due to lack of space) and the value of ItemCount was 1 in response.Īfter synchronization, the item appeared in Outlook: Note, that the request above contains the Categories property, however, our Task content type has no such field. Since our task list contains no item, the ItemCount is zero. The first request contains no token, and the response includes the entire list schema (not shown below). You can do this in SharePoint Foundation 2010 by calling the GetListItemChangesSinceToken Web method.”

#SNYNC SHAREPOINT TASK IN OUTLOOK DOWNLOAD#

“The most efficient way to synchronize third-party clients with Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 is to download only those items that have changed since the last synchronization occurred.

This method is suggested by Microsoft for item synchronization. Next, a GetListItemChangesSinceToken request is sent. I’ve started Fiddler and found that the Lists web service is used for synchronization. To investigate the behavior I’ve created a test list called OLTasks based on the Tasks list template in SharePoint. That is usually quite easy, but in this case we should have provided a way to tag the tasks and group them based on this multi-value property on the Outlook side, similarly to the default Categories field feature.Īs you may know, only a limited set of task properties are synchronized between SharePoint and Outlook, but details – like what exactly these properties are and how the synchronization process works – are not very well documented. Recently one of our customers requested a SharePoint task list that is synchronized with Outlook.

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