SharePoint Online - Search Items

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Overview

This Snap provides the ability to perform a search for the hierarchy of items matching the search query. You can search within a folder hierarchy, a whole drive, or files shared with the current user.

Prerequisites

  • Use valid SharePoint Online tenant and associated site in account and snap settings respectively.
  • Valid application in Azure portal with necessary permissions to the application. To learn more, including how to choose permissions, see Permissions.

Support for Ultra Pipelines

See Snap Support for Ultra Pipelines.

Limitations and Known Issues

N/A 

Snap Input and Output


Input/OutputType of ViewNumber of ViewsExamples of Upstream and Downstream SnapsDescription
Input 

Document

  • Min:0
  • Max:1
  • Mapper Snap
  • Copy Snap
  • CSV Parser
  • JSON Parser
  • ... ...

A document containing the metadata of the item that can be used in the search item query.


Output

Document

  • Min:0
  • Max:1
  • Mapper Snap
  • Copy Snap
  • CSV Parser
  • JSON Parser
  • ... ...

A document containing the metadata information of items that match the search query.

Snap Settings

Parameter NameData TypeDescriptionDefault ValueExample 

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 - Search Item

Site

String

Required.  This property enables you to define the name of a site, which contains the list of document library to be used in the subsequent settings.

N/A

MySite

Document Library

String

Required. 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 dropdown. Users are allowed either to choose a document library from suggestion dropdown or type an entity manually.

If an expression is used in the Site property, then the document library cannot be suggested. 

N/A

Shared Documents

Source item relative path

String

Optional. The driveItem resource path that represents a folder stored in a document library. If this property is left empty then the search will be performed at the document library level.

N/A

testFile.pdf
Search queryStringOptional. Specify keywords to be searched. It searches the filenames and content of files in SharePoint Online and finds matching documents.N/Apdf

Select fields

StringOptional. Enter the comma-separated property names to be returned in the results.N/Aname, id
Orderby propertiesN/A

Optional: Enter these properties to perform the order of the result set.

disabled

Property name

StringEnter the name of the property to be sorting order.N/Aname
       Order typeDropDownSelect the appropriate sort order to be performed upon the selected itemsascdesc
TopintOptional. Use this property to set the page size of results.200500
Auto paginationbooleanOptional. To get all items within a single folder item/document directory. If this field is not checked, Sharepoint Online will return a maximum of 200 records per page by default. If this field is selected, all matching records will be automatically returned.disabled

Connection details

N/ASettings to influence connection properties to the SharePoint Online APIs.N/AN/A

Connection timeout

intRequired. This property enables you to set the connection timeout duration in seconds.3030

Number of retries

intRequired. This property enables you to set the maximum number of re-connections in case of connection failure or timeout.31

Retry interval (seconds)

intRequired. This property enables you to set the time interval in seconds between connection attempts.1010

Snap Execution

DropDown

Specifies the execution type:

  • Validate & Execute: Performs limited execution of the Snap (up to 50 records) during Pipeline validation; performs full execution of the Snap (unlimited records) during Pipeline execution.

  • Execute only: Performs full execution of the Snap during Pipeline execution; does not execute the Snap during Pipeline validation.

  • Disabled: Disables the Snap and, by extension, its downstream Snaps.

Execute only

N/A

For more information on how to delete an item in the SharePoint Online please refer to the graph API, see driveitem-search.

Troubleshooting

ErrorReasonResolution
HTTP Response Code:404

Entered item not found in the document library

Please ensure to provide the valid item path to get the metadata.

Forbidden exception:403Either 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.
Internal Server Error: 501Value for the Property name might have missed.Please ensure to provide the value for the property name in the order by property.

Examples

The example assumes that you have configured & authorized a valid Sharepoint Online Account (see SharePoint Online Account).

The following Share Point Online - Search Items snap and pipeline shows how to search the "pdf" files in the document library.

The configuration of the Share Point Online - Search Items snap is shown below. The Snap searches all pdfs available in the selected document library and order the output documents based on the item name.


A successful validation or execution of the Snap gives the following output preview, showing the results.


Download this Pipeline.

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Important Steps to Successfully Reuse Pipelines

  1. Download and import the Pipeline into SnapLogic.
  2. Configure Snap accounts as applicable.
  3. Furnish Pipeline parameters as applicable.

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