Hello SharePoint 2013 Developers/ Microsoft,
I have got the handy SharePoint Sites Links to work on SharePoint 2013 ( A little advice for other Developers who might struggle with this, Install Desktop Experience With Server Manager, make sure Web Client Service is running and that User Profile and My Site are setup correctly. )
I have question whether is possible to add and remove link items on the "SharePoint Sites" link list trough Object model/ Web Services or in any other Automatic way controlled by the Developer?
My purpose is to create an auto-updated list of 10 personal links for each User in a Company to their most often used SharePoint Document Libraries. ( Not the "Send to SharePoint functionality which is nice , but not what I am thinkning about here )
My Research has not been very succesful so far on automate this, on TechNet some info seems to suggest to me that these links can be controlled by Object model/ Web Services, but the only Method for the Published Links Web Service: LInk to TechNet describing Published Links Service seems to be "Get Links". Which most likely indicate that this is an Web Service used internally by Office Clients and not meant to be used by Developers. Another approach I hoped for , was that if I created links under: The Menu: "Connect to Office --> "Manage SharePoint Sites" , but no SharePoint links are added in SharePoint Sites. Only by manually by clicking "Add To SharePoint SItes" this seems to work ( for me at least ). My question is therefore some info / help on a Method to automate this, so links show up under SharePoint Sites?
My Setup is: SharePoint 2013 With SQL Server 2012 and AD on seperate Server and Office 2013 Professional Plus+
UserProfile and MySite is working properly and setup. Verified Registry settings: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AppDataLow\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\Portal. ( I have added also a LinkPublishingFrequency setting there based on advice on a blog )
Thanks in advance for any help to automate this code or Web Serivces Please from a Developer perspective! Appreciate any suggestions, but Shell Links / basic mapped drives , is not an option, since I want to use the standard SharePoint
Site links , and also wants to keep this as simple as possible, and not create any complex
code to create links, but rather hopefully just use SharePoint 2013s inbuilt Methods if possible.
Best Regards
Eirik, SharePoint 2013 Developer