SharePoint Custom Activities Package

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Summary

A custom activities package that allows the management of List Items, Library Files and Folders, Users, Groups and Permissions. New activities and 2 new authentication modes have been added in v1.7.0

Overview

The latest version comes with 2 brand new Authentication Methods: AppOnly and AzureApp. (full details for these 2 can be found in the PDF documentation in the resources Tab)

AzureApp is a login mode that will use an Azure App to impersonate a specific user and perform actions on their behalf. It uses the AzureApplicationID, AzureAppPermissions, Username and Password/SecurePassword properties. This login mode is only available for SharePoint Online instances only.

You should use AppOnly for SharePoint sites for which you are able to create an app-principal. When you create a SharePoint app-principal you will obtain a  Client Id and a Client Secret  and you will use the two codes for logging in and the credentials are no longer required!
This is an indepth guide on how an app-principal can be created: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/solution-guidance/security-apponly-azureacs
This cheatsheet can be used to assign permissions to an Appp-Principal: https://medium.com/ng-sp/sharepoint-add-in-permission-xml-cheat-sheet-64b87d8d7600

The WebLogin Authentication Mode (found under the SharePoint Instance Type property) which can  potentially authenticate the robot even if the SharePoint instance is using 3rd party identity providers or if only multi factor authentication is possible. This happens by prompting the user to insert their credentials the first time the workflow is executed, afterwards which the robot stays authenticated. Given that this mode requires human input, it is recommended that this authentication mode is used only for attended automation

Activities
1.SharePoint Activity Scope
2.SharePoint.Activities.Lists
· AddListItem
· GetListItems
· DeleteListItems
· UpdateListItems
· AddListItemAttachments
· GetListItemAttachments
· DeleteListItemAttachments
3.SharePoint.Activities.Libraries
· CreateFolder
· Delete
· GetChildrenNames
· GetFile
· UploadFile
· UploadLargeFile
· MoveItem
· RenameItem
· Check In File
· Check Out File
· Discard check out
4.SharePoint.Activities.Users
· AddUsersToGroup
· CreateUserGroup
· RemoveGroup
· RemoveUserFromGroup
· GetUser
· GetAllUsersInsideGroup
5.SharePoint.Activities.Permissions
· AddPermission
· RemovePermission
· GetAllPermissionsFromGroup
6. Sign Out
7. Get Web Login User
8. GetTimezone

Prerequisites
· Have access to an instance of SharePoint and an account with all the necessary permissions. You will not be able to use this package using your credentials to do any operations that you couldn't do on your SharePoint environment in the browser.
· This solution might not work if your SharePoint instance is using a 3rd party Identity Provider.

Please find more details on how to use each of the activities on the package in the attached documentation!

Benefits

Published: 11 May 2020 | Updated: 19 May 2021

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License

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Code Language

Visual Basic

Runtime

Windows Legacy (.Net Framework 4.6.1)

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