Questions tagged [sharepoint-rest-api]
Using the Representational State Transfer (REST) interface provided by SharePoint
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Creating English-UK sites via Sharepoint Rest API
I am trying to create a new SharePoint Site collection via the REST API and trying to have that site be created using the English - United Kingdom Language rather than English - United States
I ...
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Unable to show progress bar using SharePoint REST API
I am trying use XMLHttpRequest to show a progress bar when uploading files to a SharePoint list via REST api. The same code works on this codepen even without the parser.php file. Just trying to show ...
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How to remove specific user from item level permission through Rest API using power automate
I have a list with each list item has unique permission. Now I need to remove specific user from the item level permission using Power Automate.
I know there is REST endpoint for removing group but ...
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Search REST api permission scope for external application
I have a external application that needs to be able to make requests to the sharepoint search api. This application only needs to know about information from a single site collection. However, from ...
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Query string prohibited depending on the statement
The problem
I have a List with loads of rows and I'm doing a workaround in Python to fetch them without exceding the list view threshold. So far I managed to do this by limiting the ID range of the ...
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How to do a http call POST action in SharePoint Designer 2013?
I am using SharePoint Designer Workflow 2013 and would like to use the SharePoint Rest API to update some list item.
I know how to use the "Call HTTP request" action with GET method. But how ...
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Retrieving “CanvasContent1” in JSON format
I'm trying to build my knowledge of SharePoint Restful API so that we can ultimately script bulk updates to pages.
Something I don't understand is why the "CanvasContent1" column is being ...
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Get ItemCount from Existing View
I have a Task list that I'm trying to query to get the total Active Tasks for the current user. There is a view already built that I would like to use.
/_api/web/lists/getbytitle('Tasks')/views/...
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How to update a multiple lookup field in SharePoint Designer 2013 (REST API)
I would like to update a multiple lookup field in SharePoint Designer 2013. OOTB this is not possible. In SharePoint Designer 2010 it was possible. Now I would like to do this with for example a REST ...
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Use Rest API to return link from sharepoint list
I'm trying to use REST API in SharePoint to getlistitems to display the link from a hyperlink field from my sharepoint list.
I AM successfully using the code to display the title field - but NOT the ...
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API Call to Document Library, how to get a subfolder's name?
I have been trying to make a call to a specific subfolder. Oddly if I call directly to:
'sites/website/RootFolder/Folders(\'subfoldername\')/Files
It returns the subfolder items but it won't give me ...
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What scope/permissions do I need to get RoleAssignments via the rest api?
I am using rest API role assignment for SharePoint Online with Oauth2.0 to fetch advanced permissions. But, I cannot give Full Control Scope to my Application. Is there any other way where I can get ...
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Get outgoing email settings for current web application via REST or CSOM?
I am working on a SP2013 workflow custom code activity to allow sending an email with attachments, where the email attachments are the SharePoint attachments of the current list item.
I got some proof-...
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How to find all selectable properties of a list item
If I run the query ..._api/web/lists/GetByTitle('Site Pages')/items, I get a list of properties, but it is not comprehensive. For example, FileRef is not visible in the resulting JSON, but can be ...
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SharePoint 2019 Server APIs
I am merging 2 legacy microsoft applications in modernization project. One is CMS site running on SharePoint 2013 and other is .NET 2.0 web application having transactional UI functionality. I am in ...
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How to navigate through XML response (SharePoint REST API)
I am using the SharePoint REST API to construct the endpoint URI as mentioned here
Working with folders and files with REST
I have a Microsoft SharePoint location which has a folder and the folder ...
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REST API to external list not working consistently
I have external content types, which are read operations (item/list) to SQL Server views. I've made external lists from them. There are hundreds of thousands of entries in the table, so I've increased ...
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SharePoint Framework PnP - How do I ensure my async method is completed in init() and super.onInit() promises
I have the below code.. How do I ensure my loadLookupLists() is completed before the onInit()/super.onInit() method returns
@override public onInit(): Promise<void> {
Log.info(...
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Connect Sharepoint Excel list to Django API
I am trying to build a solution where I have a SharePoint list in Excel format and I want to populate this list from the contents of a database that could be accessed through a Django Rest API. I also ...
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How to query calendar items from different calendar views?
I have two different calendar views:
View Name is "All Events"
.../Lists/CalendarName/AllItems.aspx
View Name is "Current Events"
.../Lists/CalendarName/MyItems.aspx
I'm only able ...
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Getting Error while trying to upload a file on Sharepoint API
While I am trying to upload a file on SharePoint I am getting the below error message with 401 response code. With older SharePoint, we were able to upload the file but for the newly created Site, we ...
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API to get List field from SharePoint List to create a folder in a Shared Drive
We have a SharePoint 2019 on-premises instance. Currently we are using a workflow which will create a new folder in a Document Library within SharePoint and then files are copied into this folder. We ...
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How to replace an existing file in SharePoint Online using REST API
I am trying to upload a file using REST API as below:
String.format("{0}/_api/web/getfolderbyserverrelativeurl('{1}')/files" +"/add(overwrite=true, url='{2}')",serverUrl, ...
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Upload Files >250MB via Sharepoint REST API
So I am trying to upload Files to a Sharepoint Site via the REST API. I am already using the /Files/Add() Path-Function, but that one is (from what I've found) per design locked to 250MB max and ...
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How to add records to a SharePoint list using Rest API / JSON and HTML
I have been doing a lot of research and reading and I am still having trouble understanding how to accomplish my goal.
For reference I have been here reading:
Get to know the SharePoint REST service
I ...
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must I need to use C# and CSOM to conect to the Sharepoint rest web api?
I recently had a question and how to connect to the REST web api using c# and it gave a hard time trying to connect, documentation does not give any clue how to use the rest web api(code) but ...
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Dynamic REST Statements
Is there a way to dynamically create a REST call and specifically I am referring to the data: section of the call. If I get the terminology incorrect by all means keep me honest. I tried some things ...
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Trying to fetch items of Person or Group type column from another list in React Sharepoint?
I want to fetch items of Person or Group type column from another list in React SharePoint but there is a restriction I cannot use it in a single query. So far I have only known using REST.
So if ...
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Item not fetching using lookup in React Sharepoint
I am trying to fetch items using lookup but seems like it I cannot expand the child people picker column like there is a restriction in which I can't use person field by expanding the child list.
Here'...
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SharePoint REST API Get Choice Dropdown Index
I have a dropdown with 5 string values.
I can use following request to get string values of the dropdown for every list item:
https://someurl/sites/mysite/_api/web/lists/getbytitle('mylist')/items(...
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how to add value in document library look up column when button is clicked
function UpdateDocsDetails() {
var def = jQuery.Deferred();
var itemPayload = "";
var restSource = _spPageContextInfo.webAbsoluteUrl + "/_api/Web/Lists/getByTitle('DMSDocs')/Items(...
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How can i use “Send an HTTP request to SharePoint” to only break inheritance for ONE folder and then add edit permission for just THAT folder.?
i have a subfolder within a folder and I have the path for a specific folder. Need to break inheritance for THAT folder and then add a person's email address with owner permissions for THAT folder. ...
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Trying to upload files to SharePoint list AngularJS and REST API
I have a SharePoint hosted html file with a form that I use to add a new list item to a SP list via the REST API. I am also reading data from the list using AngularJS for both reading and writing to ...
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Register Sharepoint search result click in a custom UI
We are fetching SharePoint search results using REST API and rendering those results in a custom UI.
Since we are not using built in SharePoint Search UI, tracking user click of a result is not ...
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Deleting Folder/File via REST API
I am trying out the Sharepoint API, but I am having troubles deleting anything. GET Calls, Creating folders and uploading files works like a charm, but deleting stuff is giving me head aches. I tried ...
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Need help with creating Managed Meta data column on a library using Rest API
I'm trying to create document library in Sharepoint Online using Rest API in Power Automate. We need to create a Managed Metadata column in it. I referred to microsoft site and also google for it, but ...
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Using REST API to get list items from Sharepoint [site content] in React and displaying it in table format
I am trying below code to fetch list items from SharePoint and displaying in table format using REST API up to some point I have wrote the below code.
I am unable to figure out how the items will be ...
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Options for migrating anonymous InfoPath 2010 form to SP 2016? Nintex? Aspx? JavaScript page?
I've been thrust into an architect role on SharePoint and have zero knowledge on how to best do this migration.
We have old SP 2010 InfoPath forms that need to be rebuilt (since InfoPath is no longer ...
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Add or remove Folder RoleAssignments not valid error
Having trouble with adding or removing Role Assignments on SharePoint document folders using REST API through Power Automate.
Process is to copy a Template folder with subfolders. Of which, 2 ...
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Add Role Assignment using Office 365 group
Is it possible to use an Office365 group as the principalid for the addroleassignment function in SharePoint REST?
Trying to use Flow to copy a folder structure and then set permissions on some of the ...
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Auto-populate field value in NewForm.aspx based on another list using REST
I have two SharePoint 2016 lists: List-A and List-B.
List-A has three columns:
Employee (person/group)
Supervisor (person/group)
Contact (Font Awesome envelope icon)
List-B has two columns:
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How do I access Sharepoint list data from a custom spfx webpart?
I'm trying to get all list items from a list on the same domain as the client-side spfx web-part. It's a pretty basic call via the REST API, however the information being returned doesn't match that ...
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Fetch SharePoint folder URL via REST [duplicate]
I have a document library with multiple level folder structure, I want to fetch the server relative URL of individual folder by their name.
For example:
Folder structure in lib like this:
Document ...
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Sharepoint REST API - SP.Web.CreateAnonymousLink - Unable to CREATE Links
In short - the issue appears to be that I can access a folder or file's anonymous link - but only after it's been created. When I say created - I mean clicking the 'copy link' button as show in the ...
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how to get a pre-authenticated URL to a Sharepoint document?
I'm using the Sharepoint REST API server-side to browse through documents, that works.
For authentication (having login credentials known server-side) I use node-sp-auth which provides me a FedAuth ...
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How can I triggerSharePoint Page scheduling when setting status and start date doesnt work?
I have written an Approval flow that uses Logic Apps with SharePoint REST to set approved items to "Scheduled" with a pending _PublishStartDate based on a specific date (or published right ...
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Power Automate Filter List items by person login name
We need to filter the list items by person login name (fully qualified i.e, i:0#.f|membership|xyz@abc.com),
How we can achieve this using Power automate GetList Items method or through REST API,
Any ...
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Update values in infopath form library programatically
Is it possible to update the value of a form library using JSOM or rest api? I tried and I get success messages but once I go to the form library the values remain unchanged.
If anybody has any input ...
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Author/Id returning number instead of name
I'm using the following URL to get data from a list. The last item in the URL is the Author/Id but it returns a number.
How can I get the user's name instead of the number?
url: https://.../org/eu/EU3/...
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Show Document Thumbnail of images - SharePoint Online
I can currently display thumbnail of documents using rest api by using the ServerRedirectedEmbedUri-
_api/web/lists/getbytitle('Documents')/items?select=id,Title,EncodedAbsUrl,EncodedAbsThumbnailUrl,...
