SharePoint Connection String

Adxstudio Portals 7 now supports uploading and displaying documents to and from SharePoint directly on an Entity Form, Web Form or Managed Forms in the portal. In order for the portal to make a connection to your SharePoint environment, a valid connection string must be specified in the portal's web.config. In the case where the SharePoint's user is the same as the Portal's CRM user, there is no configuration necessary. The SharePoint connection will use the Portal's CRM user's credentials when a SharePoint connection string is not supplied in the web.config.

Parameters

The table below explains many of the Connection String configuration parameters used by Adxstudio Portals.

Name Description
Url Specifies the URL to the SharePoint site.
Domain The domain that will verify user credentials.
Username The user's identification name associated with the credentials.
Password The password for the user name associated with the credentials.
ApplicationName SharePoint application name
AuthenticationMode

The mode of authentication. One of the following: 

  • Default
  • FormsAuthentication
  • Anonymous
RequestTimeout The requested time-out value in milliseconds.
ValidateOnClient The flag that indicates whether the client library needs to validate the method parameters on the client side.

Examples

The following examples show the connection string for the various deployments and authentication schemes of Microsoft SharePoint 2013

Integrated On Premises

<connectionStrings>
	<add name="SharePoint" connectionString="Url=https://sp2013.contoso.com/sites/site1/;" />
</connectionStrings>

Active Directory

<connectionStrings>
	<add name="SharePoint" connectionString="Url=https://sp2013.contoso.com/sites/site1/; Domain=CONTOSO; Username=johndoe; Password=pass@word1" />
</connectionStrings>

SharePoint Online

<connectionStrings>
	<add name="SharePoint" connectionString="Url=https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/site1/; Username=proxy@contoso.onmicrosoft.com; Password=pass@word1;"/>
</connectionStrings>