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Overview
This Snap provides the ability to get the metadata of an item from the SharePoint Online document library. Also, you can retrieve specific fields in the metadata of a document library by submitting the comma-separated field names in the select property.
Prerequisites
- Valid SharePoint Online tenant and associated site.
- Valid Azure application with all the required API permissions.
Support for Ultra Pipelines
- Works in Ultra Pipelines.
See Snap Support for Ultra Pipelines.
Limitations and Known Issues
None.
Snap Input and Output
Input/Output | Type of View | Number of Views | Examples of Upstream and Downstream Snaps | Description |
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Input | Document |
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| A document containing the metadata information that needs to get the document library metadata. |
Output | Document |
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| A document containing the metadata of the document library or complete list of document libraries in the mentioned site. |
Snap Settings
Parameter Name | Data Type | Description | Default Value | Example | ||
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Label | String | Required. The name for the Snap. You can modify this to be more specific, especially if you have more than one of the same Snap in your pipeline. | N/A | SharePoint Online - Get Document Library | ||
Site | String | Required. The name of a site that contains the list of document library to be used in the subsequent settings. | N/A | MySite | ||
Document Library | String | Optional. This property enables you to select Drive representing the top-level container for a file system, such as OneDrive or SharePoint document libraries. This field will be populated dynamically from different sites from the suggestion drop-down. Users are allowed either to choose a document library from suggestion drop-down or type an entity manually. If this property doesn’t have a value then by default the snap will get the metadata of all document libraries within the site.
| N/A | Shared Documents | ||
Select fields | String | Optional. Enter the comma-separated list of properties to be returned to the output view. | N/A | id, name | ||
Orderby properties | Optional. Enter the properties and order they want to be displayed when found more one item with one or more similar properties. This fieldset comprises the following fields:
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Property name | String | Enter the attribute name of the item/drive/folder to be sorted. | N/A | name | ||
Order type | String | Select the appropriate order type to perform the sorting at the server-side. | asc | desc | ||
Top | Integer | Sets the page size of results. | N/A | 50 | ||
Auto pagination | Check box | Optional. Enable to get the complete result set of the items | Not selected | |||
Connection details | Settings to influence connection properties to the SharePoint Online APIs. This fieldset comprises the following fields:
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Connection timeout | Integer | Required. This property enables you to set the connection timeout duration in seconds. | 30 | 30 | ||
Number of retries | Integer | Required. This property enables you to set the maximum number of retries in case of connection failure or timeout. | 3 | 3 | ||
Retry interval (seconds) | Integer | Required. This property enables you to set the time interval in seconds between connection attempts. | 10 | 10 | ||
Snap Execution | String | Specifies the execution type:
| Execute only | Validate & Execute |
For more information on how to get the metadata of an item in the SharePoint Online please refer to the graph API, see list-document-library
Troubleshooting
Error | Reason | Resolution |
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Either source/target drive (WrongDriveName) is not found in the tenant | Entered document library might not be available in the tenant | Click the suggestion drop-down button and select the entity or enter the existing one manually. |
Forbidden exception | Either user or app doesn't have sufficient permissions to read the metadata for the document library. | Ensure to provide the desired permissions both at the user and application level. |
Examples
Retrieving Document Library
This example demonstrates to you on how to retrieve the document library metadata of a site. The example assumes that you have configured and authorized a valid SharePoint Online Account (see SharePoint Online Account).
Configuration of the SharePoint Online - Get Document Library Snap to get document library metadata is shown as below.
After successful validation or execution of the Snap, the results display in the output preview.
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