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Prepared by – Sanjeet Pandey
Create Folder in Microsoft SharePoint using Mule ESB

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Overview
MuleSoft provides the most widely used integration platform to connect any application,
data service or an API, across the cloud and on-premise continuum. Microsoft Office-
365 SharePoint is a cloud-based Content management infrastructure that is accessible to the
user programmatically via a MuleSoft ‘Microsoft Service Bus’ connector. SharePoint Online is
a cloud-based service that helps organizations share and collaborate with colleagues,
partners, and customers. With SharePoint Online, you can access internal sites, documents,
and other information from anywhere—at the office, at home, or from a mobile device. The
Microsoft SharePoint Mule connector allows developers to access any amount of data, at any
time and from anywhere on the web. With connectivity to the Microsoft SharePoint API,
users can interface SharePoint to perform CRUD operations on documents and use data with
other SharePoint services. Applications can also be built for which internet storage is
required - all from within MuleSoft Anypoint Platform..
Supported operations:
• Lists and List Items API: Create, delete, retrieve, and update lists and list items.
• Files and Folders API:
– Files: Add, retrieve content, retrieve metadata, delete, check out, undo check out, check
in, publish, unpublish, approve, deny, recycle, and copy files.
– Folders: Create, delete, and retrieve folders.
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Authentication
• The Microsoft SharePoint connector supports different authentication schemes based on
which
Microsoft SharePoint that you access:
• Supported Microsoft SharePoint authentication on-premise:
– NTLM
– Claims-based authentication
• Supported Microsoft SharePoint authentication online:
– Claims-based authentication
• Unsupported authentication: Kerberos
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Prerequisites
• Microsoft Office-365 SharePoint Account
• Microsoft Office-365 SharePoint Host , User Name and Password
• Mule Anypoint Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Connector
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Installation
To complete this sample, we need an MS Office-365 SharePoint account. We can sign up for a
free trial.
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Mule Connector
Step 1 SharePoint connector
• SharePoint is a web application platform for
content and document management, intranet
portals, collaboration, extranets, websites, and
enterprise search. Mule SharePoint connector
enables integrating with SharePoint and
provides following methods -
• CRUD for Documents
• CRUD for Document Library
• CRUD for Users
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Mule MS SharePoint Connector
Step 2: Configure the Global Element
• To configure:
• In Anypoint Studio, click File > New > Mule Project.
• Specify a Project Name and click Finish.
• Click the Global Elements tab.
• Click Create.
• In the Search text box, type sharepont.
• Click Microsoft SharePoint and click OK.
• Choose the Global Type to configure:
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Mule MS SharePoint Connector
Step 3: Configure the Global Element
Fill in the Username, Password,
and Site URL.
• For authentication:
– To connect to SharePoint
Online, leave NTLM and
Claims inputs empty. Just
specify
a Username, Password,
and Site URL.
• Click Test Connection to ensure the
connection works correctly:
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Mule flow
• Install the Microsoft SharePoint Connector in Anypoint Studio (3.5 and
above) http://repository.mulesoft.org/connectors/releases/3.5
• Create a new Anypoint Studio Project and Flow.
• Before using the Microsoft SharePoint Connector in the Mule Flows, create a global element
for ‘Microsoft_SharePoint_2013__Online_Connection’ configuration which can be reused in
all other flows across the Mule project - wherever the objects are created & deleted to and
from Microsoft SharePoint.
• Configure the ‘Microsoft SharePoint’ connector by providing the following information for
the global element
– User Name
– Password
– Site Url
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Mule flow (Cont ..)
• Use HTTP inbound
endpoint to hit the service
and to crteate folder in
the Microsoft Office-365
SharePoint.
• Configure the Microsoft
SharePoint endpoint by
providing the following to
create folder in the
SharePoint document
library -
– Link to the ‘global
Connector
Configuration’
– Operation name
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Running Mule Project
• We are now ready to run the project! First, let us test run the application from Studio:
• Right-click on the application in the Package Explorer pane.
• Select Run As > Mule Application:
• Start a browser and go to http://localhost:8081/createFolder
• The success response should be returned in case of successfully creation of folder under
SharePoint document library.
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Running Mule Project (Cont…)
• Folder creation under MS SharePoint -
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