I'm using the graph API to access the documents in SharePoint. The response I'm getting looks like this:
graph api response
I want to let the user open this file (an excel file in this example) using excel desktop app. In other words, I want to resemble in my app the "Open in desktop app" functionality Excel for the web already provides:
excel for the web functionality
Is that possible?
Thanks in advance!
You can try and get the webUrl of the parent folder of the document you want to open. On that webUrl you add:
String documentUrl = parentWebUrl + "/YourDocumentName.docx";
And then you use Office URI scheme to open it localy (read more here)
It should be possible to do it using the webUrl of the document itself, but i have not figured out how to do it.
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I open succesfully files and grab the content of released sharepoint files.
Then i try to get an historized file and it fail.
this worked:
Siteaddress: https://domain.sharepoint.com/teams/Foldername
FilePath: /Freigegebene Dokumente/General/Filename
and this not:
Siteaddress: https://domain.sharepoint.com/teams/Foldername
FilePath: /_vti_history/1024/Freigegebene Dokumente/General/Filename
Is this possible or not?
Since you select the "Site Address" and "File Path" in the "Get file content using path" action and it can't get what you want, it seems the action can't implement this requirement.
As a workaround, maybe you can try with microsoft graph api to download the file in your _vti_history. Please refer to this document of the graph api. You can add a "HTTP" action in your logic app to call the graph api and download the file.
I recently switched to Firefox. Unfortunately my company still uses Sharepoint Server 2013 (migration to Sharepoint Online is planned somewhere in the future) which no longer offers a fluid integration with Office.
Every time I want to edit an Office document, it gets downloaded instead of being 'forwarded' to be opened by Word, Excel, etc. Modifications need to be saved locally and than uploaded afterwards. This is hugely annoying.
Is there some way that I can automate this in code, using a Firefox extension? Does Sharepoint expose some kind of hook or metadata containing the document's URL?
(Self-answer originally provided by Dotsoltecti; copied from question body into a proper answer).
Sharepoint 2013 passes the document's URL via the right-click contextual menu.
There exists a very neat add-on for Firefox called "custom right-click menu" by Sander Ronde. After installing this extension I added the script below:
var feedback = crmAPI.getClickInfo();
var url = feedback.linkUrl;
if (url.endsWith("docx") || url.endsWith("doc")) { var uri = "ms-word:ofe|u|" }
if (url.endsWith("xlsx") || url.endsWith("xls")) { var uri = "ms-excel:ofe|u|" }
if (url.endsWith("pptx") || url.endsWith("ppt")) { var uri = "ms-powerpoint:ofe|u|"}
var toOpen = uri.concat(url);
window.open(toOpen);
Et voilà: right clicking on a Word/Excel/PowerPoint-document executes the script and correctly forwards the document to the said program (you have to whitelist your SharePoint-site with the pop-up blocker). Modifications are handled directly by the Office-program.
Only drawback so far is that every time a document is opened, a new blank window is generated. I haven't found a solution for that yet, so suggestions are always welcome.
I'm trying to retrieve a document library by path using the Graph API and I'm not sure how to proceed.
The url to the library is for example the following:
https://hostname/sites/sitename/subsite/nameofdocumentlibrary/
I would like to have all the children through the Graph API. The issue: I know the document of the library but I don't know the ID of the library. It seems that it's possible to access it through the relative path but I'm not succeeding to it.
How do I do this?
My get url was the following:
/v1.0/sites/hostname:/sites/sitename/subsite/nameofdoccumentlibary/items
I'm always getting:
The provided path does not exist, or does not represent a site or UnknownError.
Any ideas ?
Try to use this:
GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/sites/{hostname},{spsite-id},{spweb-id}/lists/{list-id}
I don't check this in real life because I don't have SP Online. But it must working.
Use this link with SharePoint Graph API.
To get site id (site collection) you can go to your site collection and browse this endpoint:
https://hostname/sites/sitename/_api/site?$select=Id
To get web id (subsite) you can go to your subsite and browse this endpoint:
https://hostname/sites/sitename/subsite/_api/web?$select=Id
To get library Id you can just open Document Library Settings page. URL have library ID. You can transform it to real guid. Like this:
/_layouts/15/listedit.aspx?List=%7B603D7FA3-C801-46EB-A044-421234452901%7D
Must transformed to:
603D7FA3-C801-46EB-A044-421234452901
Following your feedback, I could now retrieve the document library using the display name (not the path in the url).
This is my request:
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/sites/fullsubsiteid/lists/69369/items
69369 is my display Name here.
I can also use:
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/sites/fullsubsiteid/lists/69369/drive
Now the first request, is returning an empty value array, while there is a "Documents" folder in the document library. How could I retrieve all folders/files etc in this document library? How can I use relative path?
Tx!
What is wrong with this:
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/sites/insuriasa.sharepoint.com:/Sites/IFS:/drive/root/children
At the end of the day I want to be able to download this:
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/sites/insuriasa.sharepoint.com:/Sites/IFS:/drive/root:/Std Forms/Discovery Invest/Servicing/change_of_contribution_form_retirement_annuity_plan.pdf
If you want to download the file content in a web application you should do a GET call on the item with ?select=#content.downloadUrl parameter. In the response you will get a pre-authenticated url in the property '#microsoft.graph.downloadUrl' on that you can do a get call without passing any extra authentication header to download the file.
If you are using in native clients then this Download Endpoint should work fine.
So let's say I have a full url into a sharepoint website.
In the past when I wanted to get the weburl and doc url, I used the "url to web url" method of the Front Page Server Extensions. (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms460544.aspx).
So for example if you had a site at
http://webapp/site1/chidsite/a.doc
I want a method in CSOM that will return /site1/childsite as the weburl.
I see the Web.WebUrlFromPageUrlDirect() method in CSOM but I'm not sure I'm getting what I need back from it. In the Uri class I get back, would I use teh "AbsolutePath" property for the weburl?
What is the correct way to do this?
I also would like to get the docURL that is usually retrieved by a call to url to web url via frontpage extensions.
The fileurl will be the file location relative to the web site. So if the document is stored in the document library called "Documents", you will get a value of /Documents/file.ext.
Well, I've reverted to using the FrontPage extensions when doing URLToWebURL since I just wasn't sure what I was getting using CSOM methods. Though check the link below for answers I received elsewhere.
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