Sharepoint automation

[MuraliKumar]

Hi, Has anyone had experience with automating downloading documents from Microsoft SharePoint? Any tips or suggestions on how best to automate this, other than using internet explorer mode? We have been facing significant challenges in automating it since some sub-menu items can only be accessed after hovering, which makes it rather difficult to use the browser mode for automation. If someome has done it in a better way, I would be grateful for some knowledge sharing. Thanks MK

[BastiaanBezemer]

Do you have in the sharepoint folder, under the option ‘actions’ the action ‘Open with Windows Explorer’ ? if so, this this will show you the path and you can do the normal BluePrism ‘Copy File’ action, without the challenges of sub-menu items and the need to hover ?

[PatrickOttery1]

You can also try use the SharePoint REST API, via the HTTP Request action. Some web dev experience may make this easier.

[RaúlHernández]

Hi, Muralik. If you're using MS Shared Point, you can synchronize folder and subfolders as well. To do this, you can use OneDrive application. This method allows you to have an easy file and folders management

[Mei_YingLim]

For basic file operations, we use the Utility - File Management object. When calling the file actions, we pass in SharePoint's WebDAV path. That covered 90% of our use-cases.