KB-1015 "403 Forbidden" error returned when uploading a file to SharePoint

Parmida Borhani — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 04:13:25 GMT

Current Revision posted to Appian Knowledge Base by Parmida Borhani on 7/30/2018 4:13:25 AM

Symptoms

Sending a file to Microsoft SharePoint 2013 using the a!shpCopyDocumentFromAppian() function returns a 403 Forbidden error from the SharePoint server.

Users are able to download files and get the list of files in SharePoint. This issue reproduces when SharePoint is hosted in a DMZ server.

The relevant errors in the application server log are as follows:

2014-08-13 15:56:36,158 [[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '10' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'] ERROR com.appian.integration.sharepoint.function.SharepointIntegrationUploadFile - ConnectorRuntimeException [title=FORBIDDEN, com.appian.integration.exception.ConnectorRuntimeException: HTTP/1.1 403 FORBIDDEN , {"error":{"code":"-2130575251, System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException","message":{"lang":"en-US","value":"The security validation for this page is invalid. Click Back in your Web browser, refresh the page, and try your operation again."}}}]
ConnectorRuntimeException [title=FORBIDDEN, com.appian.integration.exception.ConnectorRuntimeException: HTTP/1.1 403 FORBIDDEN , {"error":{"code":"-2130575251, System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException","message":{"lang":"en-US","value":"The security validation for this page is invalid. Click Back in your Web browser, refresh the page, and try your operation again."}}}]
at com.appian.integration.sharepoint.SharepointIntegrationHandler.uploadFileHandle(SharepointIntegrationHandler.java:458)
...

Cause

Web Page Security Validation is turned on in SharePoint.

Action

To correct this issue, perform the following:

Go to Sharepoint 2013 Central Administration
Then go to Application Management > Web Applications > Manage web applications.
Click on the web application, and on the top of the page click General Settings.
Go to the Web Page Security Validation section, and select Off for Security Validations.
Try again using the connectors.

Affected Versions

This article applies to all versions of Appian using SharePoint 2013.

Last Reviewed: July 2017

Tags: third-party, sharepoint, integration

KB-1015 "403 Forbidden" error returned when uploading a file to SharePoint

Nick Vigilante — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 10:28:59 GMT

Revision 2 posted to Appian Knowledge Base by Nick Vigilante on 7/25/2017 10:28:59 AM

Symptoms

Sending a file to Microsoft SharePoint 2013 using the a!shpCopyDocumentFromAppian() function returns a 403 Forbidden error from the SharePoint server.

Users are able to download files and get the list of files in SharePoint. This issue reproduces when SharePoint is hosted in a DMZ server.

The relevant errors in the application server log are as follows:

2014-08-13 15:56:36,158 [[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '10' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'] ERROR com.appian.integration.sharepoint.function.SharepointIntegrationUploadFile - ConnectorRuntimeException [title=FORBIDDEN, com.appian.integration.exception.ConnectorRuntimeException: HTTP/1.1 403 FORBIDDEN , {"error":{"code":"-2130575251, System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException","message":{"lang":"en-US","value":"The security validation for this page is invalid. Click Back in your Web browser, refresh the page, and try your operation again."}}}]
ConnectorRuntimeException [title=FORBIDDEN, com.appian.integration.exception.ConnectorRuntimeException: HTTP/1.1 403 FORBIDDEN , {"error":{"code":"-2130575251, System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException","message":{"lang":"en-US","value":"The security validation for this page is invalid. Click Back in your Web browser, refresh the page, and try your operation again."}}}]
at com.appian.integration.sharepoint.SharepointIntegrationHandler.uploadFileHandle(SharepointIntegrationHandler.java:458)
...

Cause

Web Page Security Validation is turned on in SharePoint.

Action

To correct this issue, perform the following:

Go to Sharepoint 2013 Central Administration
Then go to Application Management > Web Applications > Manage web applications.
Click on the web application, and on the top of the page click General Settings.
Go to the Web Page Security Validation section, and select Off for Security Validations.
Try again using the connectors.

Affected Versions

This article applies to all versions of Appian using SharePoint 2013.

Last Reviewed: July 2017

Tags: third-party, sharepoint

KB-1015 "403 Forbidden" error returned when uploading a file to SharePoint

Nick Vigilante — Fri, 10 Feb 2017 16:09:05 GMT

Revision 1 posted to Appian Knowledge Base by Nick Vigilante on 2/10/2017 4:09:05 PM

Symptoms

Sending a file to Microsoft SharePoint 2013 using the a!shpCopyDocumentFromAppian() function returns a 403 Forbidden error from the SharePoint server.

Users are able to download files and get the list of files in SharePoint. This issue reproduces when SharePoint is hosted in a DMZ server.

The relevant errors in the application server log are as follows:

2014-08-13 15:56:36,158 [[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '10' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'] ERROR com.appian.integration.sharepoint.function.SharepointIntegrationUploadFile - ConnectorRuntimeException [title=FORBIDDEN, com.appian.integration.exception.ConnectorRuntimeException: HTTP/1.1 403 FORBIDDEN , {"error":{"code":"-2130575251, System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException","message":{"lang":"en-US","value":"The security validation for this page is invalid. Click Back in your Web browser, refresh the page, and try your operation again."}}}]
ConnectorRuntimeException [title=FORBIDDEN, com.appian.integration.exception.ConnectorRuntimeException: HTTP/1.1 403 FORBIDDEN , {"error":{"code":"-2130575251, System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException","message":{"lang":"en-US","value":"The security validation for this page is invalid. Click Back in your Web browser, refresh the page, and try your operation again."}}}]
at com.appian.integration.sharepoint.SharepointIntegrationHandler.uploadFileHandle(SharepointIntegrationHandler.java:458)
...

Cause

Web Page Security Validation is turned on in SharePoint.

Action

To correct this issue, perform the following:

Go to Sharepoint 2013 Central Administration
Then go to Application Management > Web Applications > Manage web applications.
Click on the web application, and on the top of the page click General Settings.
Go to the Web Page Security Validation section, and select Off for Security Validations.
Try again using the connectors.

Affected Versions

This article applies to all versions of Appian using SharePoint 2013.

Last Reviewed: February 20167

Tags: third-party, sharepoint