Retrieve all folders with sub-folders from SharePoint List

Shantha Kumar — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:23:16 +0000

In this post, I’ll show you how to get all the folders including subfolders from Document Library or List in sharepoint.

This is just easy, by using SPQuery object and setting ViewAttributes property in it; we can retrieve only the folders from the SharePoint List, with a single condition. Now I’ll show you a code,

SPSite site = SPContext.Current.Site;
SPWeb web = SPContext.Current.Web;

SPList list = web.Lists["Shared Documents"];

SPQuery query = new SPQuery();

//Condition to check the item type is folder or not
query.Query = “1”;

//Get all the items including subfolders from the list query.ViewAttributes = “Scope=’RecursiveAll’”;

//Retrieve the items based on Query SPListItemCollection items = list.GetItems(query);

string folderDetails=“”;

//Get the name and Url for the folder
foreach (SPListItem item in items)
{
folderDetails += “Folder Name:” + item.Name + “
Folder URL:” + web.Url + “/” + item.Url + “
”;
}

In Query property of SPQuery object, we have to set the condition of “FSObjType” is equal to 0, this is the “Item Type” value for the folder, the list items or documents contain the Item Type value as 1.

And then Scope=’RecursiveAll’ is nothing but to retrieve all the items and folders from the list or library.

I’ll hope this post help you all about retrieving all the folders from the SharePoint List or Library.

Download all files from SharePoint Library

Shantha Kumar — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:35:07 +0000

Now, we are going to see how we can download all documents(incluing sub folders) from SharePoint Library.

First of all,we have get all documents from SharePoint Library. The following code help us to get all the documents including Subfolders.
//Get the Document Library and its view
SPList list = web.Lists["Test Document"];
SPView view = list.Views["All Documents"];
//Query all documents in Library including files under subfolders
SPQuery squery = new SPQuery(view);
squery.ViewAttributes = “Scope=”Recursive”";
SPListItemCollection items = list.GetItems(squery);

Now we have to write a code for downloaing documents,
//Read all documents and write those files to Local System
foreach (SPListItem item in items)
{
byte[] binfile = item.File.OpenBinary();
FileStream fstream = new FileStream(“F:\” + item.File.Name, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.ReadWrite);
fstream.Write(binfile, 0, binfile.Length);
fstream.Close();
}

By using the above code snippets, we can download all document from SharePoint Library.

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Retrieve all folders with sub-folders from SharePoint List

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