Published Links Web Service

The Published Links Web service namespace is an arbitrary name for a reference to the PublishedLinksService.asmx Web service in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

The Published Links Web service provides a published links interface for remote clients to read and create published links.

To use the Published Links Web service library, you must generate a proxy class in either Microsoft Visual C# or Microsoft Visual Basic through which you can call the various Web service methods.

The Web Services Description Language (WSDL) for the User Profile Web service endpoint is accessed through PublishedLinksService.asmx?wsdl.

The following example shows the format of the URL to the User Profile Web service WSDL file.

https://server/customsite/_vti_bin/PublishedLinksService.asmx

If you do not have a custom site, you can use the following URL:

https://server/_vti_bin/PublishedLinksService.asmx

It is recommended that you create a custom site, and then use the URL that includes the custom site in the URL format.

The following table describes each element in the URL.

For more information about the WSDL format, see the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) WSDL specification at http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl.

Classes

	Class	Description
	PublishedLinksService	Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides the PublishedLinksService Web service so that Microsoft Office system clients and other applications can obtain the list of published links on the server that are targeted to the current user. These links point to Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 sites that are available for publishing information from Office system clients and other applications for that user.
	ServerLink	Represents a published link to a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site that is targeted to the current user.