Copy major version of document to another library & preserve document history

Question

This question keeps being asked with respect to different SharePoint versions. In my case I want copy a document from a 'working library' ( not searchable) to a published versions library, once it has been approved. I also want to ensure that the copied version preservers the major version and any history. My first thought was to do this with a web service

https://tenant.sharepoint.com/teamsite/_vti_bin/_vti_aut/author.dll

The request headers would be

X-Vermeer-Content-Type=application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Type=application/x-www-form-urlencoded

The request body (POST) might look this

copy+document:15.0.0.4420&service_name=/&oldUrl=‎‏'https://tenant.sharepoint.com/teamsite/lib1/doc1.doc'‌&newUrl=‎‏'https://tenant.sharepoint.com/allcompany/lib2/doc1.doc'‌&url_list=[]&rename_option=findbacklinks&put_option=overwrite,migrationsemantics

Anyway, I have tried the call using an HTTP Web Service Action in Nintex Workflow for Office 365 and also the Postman tool but I am getting an access denied error ( even with a HTTP 200). If there is another way of getting my desired outcome please let me know.

Answer 1

I had in past used Copy.CopyIntoItems service referenced at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/websvccopy.copy.copyintoitems(v=office.15).aspx to copy major version of file from one library to another library while preserving version history on target. This worked for SharePoint 2010.

I used below code.

        CopyService.Copy copySvc = new CopyService.Copy();
        copySvc.Url = https://abc/sites/abc/_vti_bin/Copy.asmx;
        copySvc.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(userName, password, "windows");
        uint cr = copySvc.CopyIntoItems(fileName, desPath, info, fileByte, out copyResult);
        if (cr.ToString() == "0")
            {                       
               result = "Version uploaded successfully.";
            }
            else
            {                       
                result = "Version upload fails.";
            }