I faced a requirements in SharePoint 2007 where the
documents need to be copied from one document library to another document library in a different site (in different
farm too) and the metadata of documents was also required to be preserved. I
was able to do it using the Copy Web Service the GetItem
Method generate a byte array representation of document and it also copied all
the metadata in an array of FieldInformation object which can then be passes to
CopyIntoItems
method to upload the document in the destination document library.
I hope this would
help other people finding the simple method of copying documents with metadata.
Cheers,
Rohit Sharma
