Updating choice fields via SharePoint Web Services
October 30th, 2009
May 20, 2010 Update
This post is about using a C# console app to update choice fields via SharePoint web services. If you are looking for more information on how SharePoint web services can be called via JavaScript, check out my post on building a simple SharePoint AJAX app.
My problem started with a simple change to a site column. I had originally created a Country field with the following values:
- US
- Canada
After a change in requirements, the new values for the field were:
- Canada
- Germany
- Great Britain
- Ireland
- United States
After updating the site column, I then needed to update the hundreds of items in the list to use “United States” instead of “US”. Instead of updating hundreds of items manually, I decided to write a small web services console app. (I was also not able to update it in datasheet… due to content approval maybe???)
However, I quickly ran into problems when attempting to update the multi-select choice field.
