creating a sharepoint site from clearQuest web server - web-services

Question

I have a clearQuest Web (running on Linux) and wants to create a sharepoint site when a new record is created (using a perl script).
How can I do it - is there any sharepoint web service that I can use to create a site.
I beleive that I need a perl module for web services, how do I add it to the perl installation of the clearQuest web server ?
Does any one has expirienc with this ?

Answer 1

I have not worked with perl script. But check out http://sharepoint site/_vti_bin/sites.asmx webservice. This webservice can be used manage sites.

Answer 2

I created a custom web service for creating sites in SharePoint (WSS 3), as I couldn't find a way to do it using the existing web services.
The code looks something like this:
[WebService(Namespace = "http://tempuri.org/")]
[WebServiceBinding(ConformsTo = WsiProfiles.BasicProfile1_1)]
public class CreateSiteWebService : System.Web.Services.WebService
{
[WebMethod]
public string CreateSite(
string strWebUrl,
string strTitle,
string strDescription,
uint nLCID,
string strWebTemplate,
bool useUniquePermissions,
bool bConvertIfThere
)
{
SPWeb newWeb = null;
SPSite site = SPContext.Current.Site;
newWeb = site.RootWeb.Webs.Add(strWebUrl, strTitle, strDescription, nLCID, strWebTemplate, useUniquePermissions, bConvertIfThere);
newWeb.Navigation.UseShared = true;
newWeb.Update();
//try to get it to appear in quick launch:
SPNavigationNodeCollection nodes = web.Navigation.QuickLaunch;
SPNavigationNode menuNode = null;
foreach(SPNavigationNode n in nodes)
{
if (n.Title == "Sites")
{
menuNode = n;
break;
}
}
if (menuNode == null)
{
menuNode = new SPNavigationNode("Sites", site.Url + "/_layouts/viewlsts.aspx?ShowSites=1", false);
nodes.AddAsFirst(menuNode);
}
SPNavigationNode navNode = new SPNavigationNode(strTitle, strWebUrl, false);
menuNode.Children.AddAsLast(navNode);
parent.Update();
parent.Dispose();
site.Dispose();
string url = newWeb.Url;
newWeb.Dispose();
return url;
}
}
Hope that helps.