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jwilliams1110-Marble
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August 25, 2016
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Has anyone connected a ThingWorx mashup to a SharePoint Document Library?

  • August 25, 2016
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I am trying to connect to a document library in SharePoint 2010 from ThingWorx, so that users can access documents from the library within ThingWorx without having to go into SharePoint.  (I tried using a ThingWorx file repository to store the documents, but it didn't have the features/capabilities needed.)  I am looking into using the SharePoint REST API, but am unsure as to what syntax I should use within the JavaScript panel for a Thing.  Has anyone successfully done this or knows how and can provide guidance?

Thanks,

Jeff

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    PaiChung22-Sapphire I
    22-Sapphire I
    August 25, 2016

    What particular features do you need that Sharepoint provides?

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    jwilliams1110-MarbleAuthor
    10-Marble
    August 26, 2016

    Here are the primary reasons why we want to use SharePoint for document management in conjunction with our ThingWorx solution:

    - Permissions can be assigned at the subfolder and document levels.

    - It identifies who uploaded and last modified a document

    - Documents and subfolders can be viewed in Explorer view and removed or added in bulk

    - Powerful full-context search engine

    - Workflows can be fired based on activity in the document library (not currently a requirement, but potentially useful)

    - The customer owns SharePoint and is accustomed to it

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    PaiChung22-Sapphire I
    22-Sapphire I
    August 26, 2016

    Would it suffice to present the Sharepoint site within a ThingWorx Webframe?

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    ttielebein5-Regular Member
    5-Regular Member
    September 14, 2016

    In order to make a REST API call to some external site, checkout the ContentLoader Resource, e.g.

        var prm = {

            url: "YOUR_URL_HERE",

            timeout: 60

        };

        var json = Resources["ContentLoaderFunctions"].PostJSON(prm);

    Hope this helps!



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    jwilliams1110-MarbleAuthor
    10-Marble
    September 15, 2016

    Thanks to some help I received from ThingWorx, I was able to make a SOAP web service (GetList) call to SharePoint, so I'll focus on using SOAP calls going forward instead of REST.  Onward to the next challenge!

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    SvenR14-Alexandrite
    14-Alexandrite
    April 5, 2017

    Hi,

    did they point you to some specific documentation about how to do it?

    I am now at a similar point and would need to get a list of results of a library in Sharepoint based on the part number for display in the PTC Navigate App...

    greetings

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    pdahmen1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    November 28, 2017

    I would really appreciate it if you could send me your solution aswell. I have a similar problem that I am facing right now.

    Best,

    Philip

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    jwilliams1110-MarbleAuthor
    10-Marble
    November 28, 2017

    Philip,

    We ended up using ThingWorx's file repository to store files related to the transactions we're tracking in our database.  My customer still uses SharePoint and another documentation management tool to store the final versions of the files, but the TWX file repository worked out to be the most convenient means to allow users from both inside and outside our network to exchange files throughout the course of a transaction.  Sorry I couldn't provide you the answer you were looking for.

    Regards,

    Jeff

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