I was experimenting with MS Flow in Office 365, trying to automatically extract info from excel files. However, it turns out we made some "design error" in our sharepoint structure.
We have multiple central document libraries that are only linked to the Onedrive for Business environment and not connected to a Sharepoint site. (The latter turns out to be necessary for MS flow.) Is it possible to link existing document libraries to a sharepoint site?
EDITS:
Some background: within onedrive for business we have created multiple document libraries. See the screenshot below (blacked out are the ones we created).
Screenshot of Onedrive for Business "Site Contents"
Using MS flow I want to extract info from some of the Excel sheets in those doc libs. However, when using the wizards, I can only access files in document libraries that are created from a Sharepoint site (mine were apparently created directly in the OnedrivefB environment) or the main document library from OnedrivefB (as shown below; when choosing Onedrive, the File wizard only shows the files in the 'Documents' doc lib as also listed in the previous screenshot. Screenshot from Flow wizard
Elsewhere, I was told I should connect the document libraries we created to a Sharepoint site. But this person couldn't tell me how... Other suggestions are of course welcome as well!
Thanks, J
For completeness:
Step 1 in the wizard, showing sharepoint sites and onedrive for business
Step 2 in the wizard, showing options when choosing for OdfB
Step 3 in the wizard, only showing files from the document library called "Documents" in the first screenshot
A screenshot from one such document library with the Excel I am trying to access
Both OneDrive for Business and Sharepoint sites can be connected to MS Flow. If you are looking for the connection with OneDrive for Business, check the below link for triggers and sample templates
https://us.flow.microsoft.com/en-us/connectors/shared_onedriveforbusiness/onedrive-for-business/
Sharepoint -
https://us.flow.microsoft.com/en-us/connectors/shared_sharepointonline/sharepoint/
EDIT:
To access an Excel file in an OneDrivefB folder, browse and select the excel using file option. It will list all the folders in your OneDrive library.
.Second screenshot which you attached is sharepoint assets. they cant be linked to OneDrive. It can only be linked to sharepoint sites
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I have created a couple of sharepoint lists, one that uses a lookup on the document library to link multiple documents to a list item. The other list is to create tiled links that link to documents, again in the document library.
I am using Sharepoint as part of Office 365
The problem I have is that opening the documents from these lists open in the browser instead of the client application (usually Excel), the spreadsheets are too complex for the browser based version of Excel so I need them to always open in the client application.
So far, I have set the default open option for the document library (Documents Settings > Advanced Settings) for the master site and subsite to Open in Client application by default; obviously this works for the document library, but doesn't work for the lists.
Searched for ages on this problem and either nobody has it or people that do this aren't bothered by documents opening in the browser. Would be greatful for any help on this, or if you can think of a better way to do it....
You could export list items to excel file (List ribbon -> Export to excel) and then upload that excel file to some document library.
Then, the users would open the excel file from the library and they would need to refresh the data from excel, by clicking Data ribbon -> Refresh All
That is the closest that you can do with opening list items with excel without any programming.
Please note that users will have to be logged in to SharePoint and have the Read permissions in SharePoint list in order to Refresh the data.
I have a silverlight application inserted in a SharePoint page. The SilverLight application runs on a different server thatn that of SharePoint. From an event in the SilverLight, I generate a document on the server side from SQL Server. I can generate the doc on the server hosting the silverlight application and also copy it to the SharePoint server. I wanted to know if I can include this file in a sharepoint document library automatically. I was thinking if like emailing to a list allows us to copy the file into the library, can we configure the reverse, means copying the file make it part of the list.
Update:
I wanted to avoid uploading. For me uploading is sending the file from one location to the target location. But what I am saying is, if I copy the file into the folder where SharePoint keeps the file physically for the particular list, can it be added to the list automatically?
I am not sure, how well I am being able to describe the point. Please elaborate if required or I can answer your queries.
SharePoint stores the files in a database, not a folder.
WebDAV access may be what you're looking for - it's a backbone of the the Explorer View feature that allows a user to access a document library as if you were accessing a file system through a Windows Explorer window.
You can configure "incoming e-mail" properties for the document library, and assign an e-mail address.
After that, when you e-mail a document as attached to e-mail to this e-mail address, then attachment will be saved to that library by sharepoint automatically.
My colleague and I are unable to move our Document Information Panel from one document library to another document library on a different site collection. Both document libraries have the same fields/columns and are exactly the same except that they are on different site collections. We have tried using "Convert Data Source" and "Change Bindings" from within Infopath, then publishing the DIP to the SharePoint document library, but it doesn't work.
You need to use "Convert main data source" from within InfoPath on the SharePoint server. Do not attempt to do it from another server or workstation. After converting the main data source, publish the document information panel to the SP document library.
How could I synchronize as SharePoint (2007) document library to a local folder... but only the 'approved' documents in a library that has content approval set on.
Navigating to it through Windows Explorer (i.e. the WebDAV link) exposes all files, but i can't find any indication in the file system which are approved.
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. The client will either be Windows Server or a Windows client OS(7, XP)
Windows Explorer view is always going to show you all the files so there isn't going to be a way to make it show a subset of the files. With a tool written to use the SharePoint web services you could access a document library view that only had approved documents showing so you could only download documents that showed up in the view. Alternatively you could query the document library for items that were approved and just grab those.
My goal is to extend functionality of the current asset tracking system.
Basically I would like to pull list of Clients and related assets from external system into sharepoint 2010.
Then I would like to associate documents with each asset. My first intention is to create a list of folders where each folder would be named respectively.
Tell me, if I am going in the wrong direction.
You can open your document library in explorer view and easly copy your content from external sorce to document liabrary, as windows explorer.
You can reffer the below link for more details
http://msmvps.com/blogs/shane/archive/2006/01/12/80843.aspx