Integrating Appian with SharePoint

RE: Integrating Appian with SharePoint

gayathris876948 — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 05:45:34 GMT

Which Appian version are you using now?

Appian 19.3 release supports easy integration with Microsoft Sharepoint. There is support for both per-user (authorization code) and service account (client credentials) authentication, so regardless of your authentication preference, you can go with this!

https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/19.3/Connected_System.html#sharepoint

RE: Integrating Appian with SharePoint

anushrid0001 — Sun, 22 Sep 2019 15:04:04 GMT

Hi Ravi,

The document is of a great help. Can you guide us with the configuration of "SharePoint Client Credentials Connected System"?

RE: Integrating Appian with SharePoint

chrism967 — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 21:33:57 GMT

Well it took a bit of wrestling but in the end it fell into place!

https://[YourSharepointSiteAddress]/_api/web/getfolderbyserverrelativeurl('Shared%20Documents')/folders/add(url='Testing')

nesting can be done using

https://[YourSharepointSiteAddress]/_api/web/getfolderbyserverrelativeurl('Shared%20Documents/Testing')/folders/add(url='Testing2')

You need to loop through creating folders as you go - there's no point in testing if a folder already exists before creating it as it just means more API calls in the event they're not there - may as well just create and if it already exists then no harm done.

RE: Integrating Appian with SharePoint

Arun Theja Muthyalu — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 17:57:09 GMT

Hi chrism967,

It's great to know that my documentation helped you upload documents in SharePoint in no time. But I haven't tried the scenarios that you have mentioned. But by now we have the Connected System successfully pointing to the SharePoint. So I believe it's more of SharePoint stuff, as you need to find the appropriate REST URI for folder creation and document download.

SharePoint Folder Creation - REST API might help.

Good luck with that and please post when you sort that out in your free time. That might be useful for other folks. Thank you!

RE: Integrating Appian with SharePoint

chrism967 — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 16:27:46 GMT

*and retrieve document if you happen to know!

RE: Integrating Appian with SharePoint

chrism967 — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 16:26:39 GMT

Arun - this is fantastic. I've seen this question asked so many times but never a reply on how to actually do it. I've had files uploading in less than 20 minutes..

Then despite messing for an hour i couldnt get folder creation working. Do you happen to know the syntax for adding this?

Cheers
Chris

RE: Integrating Appian with SharePoint

Arun Theja Muthyalu — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 16:46:34 GMT

Hi All,

Please refer to the document below for the solution. This approach uses Azure Active Directory for Authentication & Authorization and Appian OOTB functionality only.

community.appian.com/.../Appian_2D00_SharePointOnline_5F00_Integration.docx

RE: Integrating Appian with SharePoint

Jacob Cohen - Project Leader - Macedon Technologies — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 19:28:30 GMT

Check out the documentation: forum.appian.com/.../Integrating_Appian-Sharepoint.html