How to use IBM App Connect with Microsoft SharePoint

What should I consider first?

Before you use App Connect Designer with Microsoft SharePoint, take note of the following considerations:

• To authenticate connection to SharePoint Online using SAML verification, IBM App Connect does not support two-factor authentication. Before using IBM App Connect with your Sharepoint account, check if your account has two-factor authentication enabled and, if so, disable two-factor authentication.
• The SharePoint connector cannot be used to access personal site collections. To work with personal site collections, you can use the Microsoft OneDrive for Business connector.

Connecting to Microsoft SharePoint

For the considerations and steps you need to connect App Connect on IBM Cloud to a Microsoft SharePoint account, see Connecting to Microsoft SharePoint from IBM App Connect on IBM Cloud.

After creating a new Microsoft SharePoint connection account in IBM App Connect Designer, you can see the available events to trigger a flow by clicking Show configurable events… under the account on the Catalog tab. You can also see the available Microsoft SharePoint actions.

General considerations

Before you use App Connect Designer with Microsoft SharePoint, take note of the following general considerations:

• (General consideration) You can see lists of the trigger events and actions that are available on the Catalog page of the App Connect Designer.

  For some applications, the events and actions in the catalog depend on the environment (IBM Cloud Pak for Integration or App Connect on IBM Cloud) and whether the connector supports configurable events and dynamic discovery of actions. If the application supports configurable events, you see a Show more configurable events link under the events list. If the application supports dynamic discovery of actions, you see a Show more link under the actions list.

• (General consideration) If you are using multiple accounts for an application, the set of fields that is displayed when you select an action for that application can vary for different accounts. In the flow editor, some applications always provide a curated set of static fields for an action. Other applications use dynamic discovery to retrieve the set of fields that are configured on the instance that you are connected to. For example, if you have two accounts for two instances of an application, the first account might use settings that are ready for immediate use. However, the second account might be configured with extra custom fields.

Events and actions

Microsoft SharePoint events

These events are for changes in this application that trigger a flow to start performing the actions in the flow.

Show configurable events... Events shown by default are pre-configured using optimized connectivity. More items are available when you have configured events that can trigger a flow by polling this application for new or updated objects. For more information about configurable events, see Configuring polled events to trigger flows.

Microsoft SharePoint actions

These are actions on this application that you want a flow to complete.

Files

Retrieve all files

Create file

Download file

Retrieve files

Rename file

Delete file

Update file

Folder item

Retrieve folder items

Folders

Retrieve all folders

Create folder

Retrieve folders

Delete folder

Update folder

List item attachments

Retrieve all list item attachments

Create list item attachment

Download list item attachment

Retrieve list item attachments

Delete list item attachment

Update list item attachment

List items

Retrieve all list items

Create list item

Retrieve list items

Delete list item

Update list item

Lists

Retrieve all lists

Create list

Retrieve lists

Delete list

Update list

Sites

Retrieve all sites

Create site

Retrieve sites

Delete site

Update site

User

Retrieve Users