Another question about the Very Large List I referenced in this question: http://sharepoint.stackexchange.comquestions/445/deleting-old-versions-in-a-document-library
This Document Library has over 5000 items and has outgrown its britches. The Document Library is an artifact repository for the SDLC process at one of my clients. Given this, each document belows to a specific project, which is specified in the item's metadata.
All of the documents currently live in the root of the Document Library. What we'd like to do is move the documents into folders by project to both improve performance as well as to reduce the likelihood of filename repetition causing destruction by overwrite.
This is a "no managed code" environment (don't ask), so I'm trying to use SharePoint's Lists and Copy Web Services to move the documents. The Copy Web Service copies the docs just fine, but we want to preserve the Created and Created By column values if at all possible. I've tried to set the Created and Created By columns ReadOnly=False to update them using the Lists Web Service's UpdateListItems operation, but can't make that work.
Any ideas?
Update 2009-11-12 - The Copy Web Service seems to preserve the Created and Created By column values just fine. Turns out that the last hurdle is unlinking the copy from its source. I can't figure out a way to empty out the _CopySource column. No combination of setting things like ReadOnly="False" on the column, etc. seems to work. This is one capability that I would expect to be part of the Copy Web Service, as it's exposed in the UI on the page when you look at the newly created item. If I delete the source item, then the _CopySource is still there, but with an invalid link back.