WebSvcPublishedLinksService namespace

The Published Links web service namespace is an arbitrary name for a reference to the PublishedLinksService.asmx web service in SharePoint Server 2013.

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.

URL element	Description
server	The name of the server on which SharePoint Server 2013 is deployed.
customsite	A custom SharePoint Server 2013 site that the server administrator creates.
<endpointname>.asmx	The name of the web service endpoint. For the Published Links web service, it is PublishedLinksService.asmx.

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	Provides a web service to Microsoft Office system clients and other applications that includes a list of the published links to the Microsoft SharePoint Server sites that are targeted to the current user.
	ServerLink	Represents a published link to a Microsoft SharePoint Server site that targets the current user.