I am using the SharePoint REST API inside an Add-In to access list data. When I query a "normal" list, I get results back. When I try to query an External List, I get a 401 error. I get the same error when I try to access the REST URL in the browser:
http://add-in-6f1ecc432fad91.myaddins.com/sites/development/_api/lists/getbytitle('TestExternalList')/items
When I try to access it outside the app it works fine:
http://sharepoint/sites/development/_api/lists/getbytitle('TestExternalList')/items
I read that you can't access External Content Types from an add-In here:
http://toddbaginski.com/blog/accessing-bcs-external-data-from-an-app-for-sharepoint-2013/
So I tried to package my BCS model as per the site and I get the following error:
The Project Item "TestBDC" cannot be deployed through a Feature in a Sandboxed Solution.
So my question is, is it possible to access an External List through an Add-In?
I am using SharePoint 2016.
Sounds like it may be a permissions issue. Do you have the BCS scope set in the app permissions?
Here's an article with info on setting up the security
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/general-development/add-in-scoped-external-content-types-in-sharepoint
Related
I am trying to use Blueprism to download pdf files from Sharepoint.
I am using the below code. Url and Path are both variables which get passed through. This is producing a 403 forbidden error. I believe that Blueprism is required to pass credentials to Sharepoint before it will be allowed to download the file. Is this possible?
Using wc As New System.Net.WebClient()
wc.DownloadFile(Url, Path)
End Using
I don't think you have a password related issue, likely the SharePoint is recognising your account access via AD group or SSO of some kind. 403 means the server has understood your request but is denying to fulfil it because of an access reason on the profile you have. Make sure you can manually download the file on the profile you are emulating for a start then also check the profile the bot is operating under (not necessarily yours in some cases ) has access to said file.
Literally 403 is a request that relates to an access issue so somewhere something doesn't have the correct access lined up
First of all, is this a Sharepoint Online or OnPremises version? As you understand, you are connecting to web resource via an API and as such you have to get authenticated and authorized to access those resources.
If it's SPO, you can use the API component for SharePoint integration from DX and configure.
In case of SP On prem, you have to customize a lot to achieve your results.
I'm trying get SiteGroup/Users from Sharepoint Online, by calling this REST API:
/_api/web?$expand=webs,lists,AllProperties,ThemeInfo,SiteUsers,SiteGroups,SiteGroups/Users,RoleDefinitions&$select=*
While on some customers sharepoint sites it's works fine , on other it's failing with :
{"error":{"code":"-2147024891, System.UnauthorizedAccessException","message":
{"lang":"en-US","value":"Access denied. You do not have permission to perform
this action or access this resource."}}}
When I remove SiteGroups/Users it's working fine, but I need SiteGroups/Users. In both cases user that I'm accessing with is Site collection Admin. So, I'm trying to understand what can be difference between admins that in one case works fine but in another not.
Thanks
This is Occur because you have done app registration on wrong url for example if your SharePoint File base Url is https://yourtenantname.sharepoint.com/sites/yourfoldername
then Use this url for App registration https://yourtenantname.sharepoint.com/sites/yourfoldername/_layouts/15/appregnew.aspx not this https://yourtenantname.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/appregnew.aspx.
You could refer to this article to register you app for rest API:
https://anoopt.medium.com/accessing-sharepoint-data-using-postman-sharepoint-rest-api-76b70630bcbf
I have the app that uses OneDrive API (MS graph) to access OneDrive free accounts and OneDrive for business.
The app works fine.
In docs of the API i can see same API can be used also to access Sharepoint Online sites data.
How to do this? When i auth a user who has Sharepoint Online account with MS graph, there is only his drive (ondrive) but there is no his site listed.
How to get access to his sharepoint site too using same API?
I have found how to work with sites using the Graph API.
To get list of sites there is the call
GET /v1.0/sites/
Then use the SITEID to get list of drives (in fact, top level folders)
GET /v1.0/sites/SITEID/drives
Then to get contents of a drive user
GET /v1.0/sites/SITEID/drives/DRIVEID/root/children
And all next calls are same as for onedrive drive
However, there is the problem i still can not solve. How to create new top level folder (new drive on a site). There is no API call for this
I believe what you are looking for is the sites API. It lets you interact with a SharePoint site if you know the path or the id of the site. You can find the documentation for the api here:
https://dev.onedrive.com/resources/site.htm
There is no easy way to discover sites as of now. You can however search for a site. You can read more about it here:
https://dev.onedrive.com/sites/search.htm
This endpoint to get the list of sites is not working, so the last answer is not valid anymore.
https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/sites
I haven't found a way to do this, the discovery of sites, without admin consent. If the admin consent flow is not a problem you can try this workaround, use the endpoint of groups to ask for the groups that the user is member of, and you can use the groups to get the document libraries of the user.
To get the groups:
GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/memberOf
With the group id, you can use this endpoint:
GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/groups/{group-id}/drive
So if someone know how to do the discovery of sites for a user without admin consent, please share.
EDIT: I'm not sure why my answer was deleted, my answer basically has 2 things:
I gave notice that one answer here is not valid anymore.
I gave a possible other solution to the problem.
I'm working on accessing document libraries for Sharepoint sites via Mircosoft Graph, but haven't had any luck so far.
Here is my setup:
I have two sites
https://mydomain.sharepoint.com
https://mydomain.sharepoint.com/teams/MyTestSite
When I make an api call to https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/drives, the response doesn't contain id of document library for second site (https://mydomain.sharepoint.com/teams/MyTestSite).
I have gone through documentation and haven't found anything on how to accomplish this. If anyone got any idea about this, please share.
Thanks.
I was able to figure out a solution for this. A sharepoint site is represented as a Group in Office 365. I found that out by doing some hit and trial.
So, after looking up their documentation for anything related to a Group, I got to this: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/docs/api-reference/v1.0/resources/group
And, by using the List groups endpoint I was finally able to get a list of all the Sharepoint sites which the authenticated user can access.
This API call requires Group.Read.All scope while requesting access token and only Admin users can authorize this scope. So, this will need a separate interface for Admin to list groups, potentially store the group-user mapping on my app for the user to be able to make api call (/groups/{group-id}/drive/items/{item-id}) related to the drive.
The V1.0 API has a way to list your doc lib as follows
GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/sites/mydomain.sharepoint.com:/Teams/MyTestSite:/drives
Hope this helps.
The beta API also exposes a Sharepoint endpoint.
You can also use the path if you already know your site structure:
GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/sharepoint:/sites
I have a web application. When the user clicks on a button in my web application, I'd like to retrieve data from SharePoint on behalf of the user. I have read quite a few articles on SharePoint but I'm still not sure how to proceed. Should I create a provider hosted SharePoint App and use the SharePointREST API? Thank you in advance for your help.
You don't need to create a Provider to use the SharePoint Rest Services.
Quoting http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/jj164022(v=office.15).aspx :
One advantage of using REST is that you don’t have to add references to any SharePoint 2013 libraries or client assemblies. Instead, you make HTTP requests to the appropriate endpoints to retrieve or update SharePoint entities, such as webs, lists, and list items. See Get started with the SharePoint 2013 REST service for a thorough introduction to the SharePoint 2013 REST interface and its architecture.
Inside the page you will find videos and code examples that will help you to connect and execute operations.
It's Correct. Data in SharePoint is Stored in Lists or Libraries (to files).
You can use the Client Object Model, to get data remotely from a SharePoint Server (on-premise or Online). The Client Object Model can be used through Assemblies (DLL files) or REST services provided by SharePoint. Generally you should know the location of the data you are going to get, that is, as I initially mentioned, the data in SharePoint are stored in Lists or Libraries, therefore you must know the name of the List or Library Additional Site or Sub-site of the List or Library is.
If the name of the list where the information is stored is "employees" and the HR website, the URL could be formed as follows:
http://spserver.company.com/HR/Employees
For REST services, simply complete URL of the list you want to see, so that you retrieve the information from the list. If you want to apply filters, sorting, to retrieve specific columns, you must do it through CAML queries which the add on REST service call.