SharePoint

The Lyftron Provider for SharePoint offers the most natural way to access SharePoint data from Lyftron with ease and also enables to connect with BI, MDM & ML tools, Data warehouses, Databases and other SAAS based applications with zero code and zero infrastructure requirements. The provider wraps the complexity of accessing SharePoint data into easy-to-integrate relational fully managed ANSI Sql format. Make faster and better business decisions with Lyftron’s SharePoint data provider and automatically build your data migration pipelines in minutes, not months

The provider hides the complexity of accessing data and provides additional powerful security features, smart caching, batching, socket management, and more.

Key Features

• Comprehensive Delta load mechanism.
• Real-time access to SharePoint.
• Comprehensive full support of ANSI Sql to query data with ease.
• Collaborative query processing.

Prerequisites

The user must have credentials for SharePoint,Lyftron and your destination data warehouse, lake or database to perform the data pipeline operation with Lyftron

Establishing a Connection with Lyftron's Quickstart Steps

Create your SharePoint connection with Lyftron by following the 5 easy steps show below:

Step1. Add your connection

Click on Connect section on the left panel →  Click on Add Connection button

Step2. Select your connector

In the connector selection panel, search and click SharePoint for your connection 

Step3. Enter your connection details

In the Connection String section enter the values of the below parameters. The following connection string is required to establish SharePoint connection with Lyftron.

"User=[your_UserAccount];Password=[your_Password];AuthScheme=NTLM;URL=[http://sharepointserver/mysite;]"

 

Key	Value	Field
Connection Name	Enter your connection details	Required
User	Enter your username	Required
Password	Enter your password	Required
AuthScheme	Enter your AuthScheme	Required
URL	Your Url	Required
Logfile**	Use the logfile option to debug your job and provide your connection name to generate the log file.  [ConnectionConfigurationPath]\Connection_name_log.tx	Optional
Verbosity**	Choose verbosity 1-5 based on the severity of debugging	Optional

 

** For more information, check the Lyftron logging and debugging section.

If you want more detailed information about how to establish a connection with Lyftron, click on Lyftron Connection Quick Start guide.

Step4. Test your connection

Once you are done entering your connection details, simply click on the Test Connection button to test the connectivity. In case your connection fails, add Logfile and Verbosity parameters and check the Lyftron logging and debugging section, to debug the error.

 Step5. Save your connection

Hurray! Now you have successfully connected with the Lyftron SharePoint connector and can utilize the connector to Extract, Warehouse, Analyze, Visualize and Share your data.

Data Model

The Lyftron Provider for SharePoint models entities in the SharePoint API as tables, views, and stored procedures. These are defined in schema files, which are simple, text-based configuration files.

API limitations and requirements are documented in this section; you can use the SupportEnhancedSQL feature, set by default, to circumvent most of these limitations.

Tables

The Lyftron Provider for SharePoint models Item Listings in tables so that they can be easily queried, updated, and deleted. You can list items on your SharePoint store by calling the AddItem stored procedure.

Views

Views are tables that cannot be modified. Typically, read-only data are shown as views.

Name	Type	Description
Announcements	Tables	Create, update, delete, and query items in Announcement lists.
Attachments	Tables	Read or delete Attachments for the specified item on the specified list.
Calendar	Tables	Create, update, query, and delete items in SharePoint Calendar lists.
Contacts	Tables	Create, update, query, and delete items in SharePoint Contact lists.
Documents	Tables	Create, update, delete, and query Documents from SharePoint libraries.
Groups	Tables	Create, update, delete, and query Groups from SharePoint.
IssueTracking	Tables	Create, update, query, and delete items in SharePoint Issue Tracking lists.
Links	Tables	Create, update, query, and delete items in SharePoint Link lists.
Pictures	Tables	Create, update, delete, and query documents in a picture library.
Roles	Tables	Create, update, delete, and query Roles from SharePoint.
Tasks	Tables	Create, update, query, and delete items in a SharePoint Tasks list.
Users	Tables	Create, update, delete, and query Users from SharePoint.
Views	Tables	Create, update, delete, and query the available lists in SharePoint
FileVersions	Views	Lists the versions of files available on SharePoint.
GetValidTerms	Views	Gets a list of valid terms for the specified column on the specified table.
Lists	Views	Lists the available lists in SharePoint.
Permissions	Views	The permissions for a site or list.
Subsites	Views	This lists the available subsites.

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