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I have a provider-hosted app running in Azure and the corresponding SharePoint app with an endpoint pointing to the Azure site. The app is responsible for parsing an atom feed from a third site and placing it into a SharePoint list. this all works perfectly so far. The only problem is that I have to either put the configuration settings into a SharePoint list manually of fill out a form each time I run the app to "tell it" where to get the atom feed from.

I have tried to search for help but I cannot find the best way to solve this problem.

Basically, I want to be able to configure the app when I'm installing it and keep the settings on the SharePoint side as I would like to be able to call the app from multiple site collections.

Update: Just to clear up some confusion, and ambiguity on my part. I would like it so that each user/admin that installs the app for their site collection can fill in the above details on installation and maybe even change them later(but I'll leave that for later). So the fact that a form needs to be filled out is fine, just not every time the app runs. Hope this makes my question clearer

What would be the best way to do this.

Thanks in advance.

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  • Is the web.config of The App not a good place for this?
    – Sascha
    Jul 7, 2014 at 18:19
  • Not really, I've edited the question as I saw that I was maybe a little unclear. I definitely want the info stored on the SharePoint side and in a list
    – Scubacode
    Jul 8, 2014 at 7:53

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Perhaps you can ask the user on the first startup for this configuration settings. You can select the List in SharePoint (where you stored the settings) if there is no entry in this list. the Settings will be asked from the user.

Otherwise you can take the stored setting from the list.

I think this will be a good solution.

I think on a installation process it's not possible to interact with the user.

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  • Ok so what you're saying is make the app do a check on the list and if it's empty, have some sort of pop up asking on for info? Nice, I like it
    – Scubacode
    Jul 8, 2014 at 8:05
  • yes that is what i mean.
    – Sascha
    Jul 8, 2014 at 8:18
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If you app's configuration is in the app web, then you will need to code an App Installing event receiver to populate the configuration store.

Personally, I would store the configuration outside of the app. (Perhaps web.config of the provider-hosted app or a database.)

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  • Is this really an answer? I would think it's more of a comment... It's working fine with the config data in a list. The question is how do I make it so it only asks for this when it's installed or when it runs the first time. I cannot have it in the Azure app as it won't work for multiple "installations"
    – Scubacode
    Jul 8, 2014 at 7:55
  • "asks when it's installed" requires an App Installing Event Receiver. (That is why I created an answer instead of a comment.)
    – Paul Schaeflein
    Jul 8, 2014 at 15:15
  • ok granted that is true. just to be clear, an event receiver on SharePoint. can this be packaged with the app or is it separate? and in the web.config of the app or a database is not a possibility
    – Scubacode
    Jul 9, 2014 at 13:12

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