SharePoint |
Description
Microsoft SharePoint collaboration software is emerging as one of the more powerful tools for companies that need to design and implement enterprise-scale solutions to meet business-critical needs, such as managing content, administering business processes and streamlining how people find and share information across the network. The SharePoint system is composed of a full range of applications and tools that allow document management, workflow design and collaboration, which helps teams stay connected and productive by providing easy access to the people, documents, and information that can help in decision making and getting work done.
With the use of Automate's SharePoint activities, organizations have the power to automate all SharePoint business and IT processes on a single platform. Automate's native SharePoint support delivers a comprehensive automation solution, enabling businesses to integrate SharePoint with disparate applications across their network. Automate's pre-built SharePoint activities and drag-and-drop interface automate the management and administration of SharePoint users, sites, libraries, workflows, and lists. With Automate’s SharePoint activities, you can:
- Implement code-free SharePoint automation
- Save time uploading or downloading files to SharePoint sites
- Eliminate latency, errors, and operational costs
- Retrieve and control SharePoint workflows
- Manage SharePoint users and groups
- Check files in and out automatically
Available Activities
The following table briefly describes the available activities for this action arranged in alphabetical order. Click the appropriate link for more details regarding each activity.
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Adds an attachment to the specified item in a SharePoint list. |
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Adds an item to an existing SharePoint list. |
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Adds a user to the specified group. |
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Creates a view with the specified name, view fields, query, row limit, and denotes whether or not it is the default view. |
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Performs a site collection backup. |
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Cancels a SharePoint workflow in progress based on its instance ID. |
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Checks in a document. |
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Checks out a document. |
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Copies a file from the source URL to the destination URL. |
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Creates a folder in an existing document library. |
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Creates a new SharePoint group. |
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Creates a new SharePoint list. |
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Creates a new role assignment in which to add items to. |
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Creates a new SharePoint session in which to attach subsequent SharePoint related activities to. This allows multiple sessions to exist within the same task. To end a session, use the End Session activity. |
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Creates a new SharePoint site. |
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Creates a user alert which is used to notify a user of changes to SharePoint content. |
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Deletes an existing attachment from the specified SharePoint list. |
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Deletes an existing file or document in a SharePoint library. |
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Deletes a folder in an existing document library. |
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Deletes an existing group. |
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Deletes an existing list. |
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Deletes an existing role. |
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Deletes an existing SharePoint site. |
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Deletes a specific alert assigned to a user identified by the Alert ID. |
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Deletes a view from a SharePoint list. |
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Retrieves list information and populates a dataset with results. |
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Discards an existing check out. |
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Downloads an attachment from a list item in a Microsoft Windows SharePoint Service. |
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Downloads a file from a SharePoint library. |
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Downloads the files specified from the SharePoint site. To specify more than one file, use wildcard characters (i.e. * or ?). To specify multiple files or wildcard masks, separate them with a pipe character (i.e. source/*.txt|source/*.bak). |
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Ends a SharePoint session initially created with the use of the Create Session activity. |
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Retrieves attachments from the specified list item and populates a dataset with the results. |
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Retrieves files from a SharePoint library. |
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Retrieves folders from a SharePoint library. |
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Retrieves available groups and populates a dataset with the results. |
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Retrieves list items and populates a dataset with the results. |
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Retrieves available lists and populates a dataset with the results. |
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Retrieves available roles and populates a dataset with the results. |
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Retrieves available sites and populates a dataset with the results. |
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Retrieves views from a SharePoint server and populates a dataset with the results. |
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Retrieves available users from the specified group and populates a dataset with the results. |
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Retrieves information with regards to existing workflow instances and populates a dataset with results. This activity supports retrieval of site and list workflow instances or data can be retrieved from instances associated to a particular workflow ID. |
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Retrieves information with regards to existing workflows and populates a dataset with results. This activity supports retrieval of site and list workflows. |
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Adds the user to the specified role definition. |
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Retrieves a list of audit logs for a site collection and populates a dataset with results. |
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Retrieves a list of user alerts and populates a dataset with results. |
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Moves a file from the source URL to the destination URL. |
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Removes an item from the specified list. |
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Removes the specified user from the specified role definition. |
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Removes the specified user from the specified group. |
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Renames a folder from the specified SharePoint library. |
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Restores a site that has been previously backed up. |
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Resumes a suspended SharePoint workflow based on its instance ID. |
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Retrieves available sites/sub-sites from a SharePoint server and populates a dataset with the results. |
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Starts a SharePoint workflow. |
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Suspends a running SharePoint workflow based on its instance ID. |
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Terminates a SharePoint workflow based on its instance ID. |
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Updates information for the specified group. |
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Updates a list based on the specified field definitions and list properties. |
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Updates an item from the specified list. |
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Updates information for the specified role definition. |
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Updates information for the specified site. |
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Updates the settings and content of an existing user alert. |
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Updates an existing view's attributes (i.e. row limit, columns, mark as default, etc.). |
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Uploads a file to the specified site. |
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Uploads one or more local files to a SharePoint library. |