Change Fields in a SharePoint Library or List

To change field values in a SharePoint library or list, do the procedure in this topic

Update Metadata Configuration Screen



Update Metadata Configuration > SharePoint List Screen



Good to Know

How to Start

  1. On the Organizer, do one of these:
  2. Do one of these:
    • Add an activity:
      1. In the Process Builder, go to the Activity Library, and open the SharePoint tab.
      2. On the SharePoint tab, drag the Update Metadata activity onto your process.
    • Change an activity:
      1. In your process, double-click your activity.
  3. Click Update Metadata Configuration .

Procedure

  1. On the Update Metadata Configuration screen, in the SharePoint field, select your SharePoint access token.

    To create a new access token, click Add Token . For more information, refer to New SharePoint Access Token.

  2. Complete these fields.
    Field Name Definition

    Site

    Function:
    Specifies the URL for the SharePoint library that contains the process data variable.
    Accepted Values:
    A valid SharePoint site URL.
    Default Value:
    None
    Accepts Process Data Variables:
    Yes

    List

    Function:

    Specifies the name of your SharePoint list.

    Accepted Values:
    The name of your SharePoint list.
    Default Value:
    None
    Accepts Process Data Variables:
    Yes
  3. Click the SharePoint List tab.
  4. To specify the display name, complete these fields as necessary.

    You can click Filter and complete the fields as necessary to select the name of the SharePoint library column.

    Field Name Definition

    Display Name

    Function:
    Specifies the name of the SharePoint library column.
    Accepted Values:
    Read only.
  5. To specify the value, complete these fields as necessary.

    You can click Filter and complete the fields as necessary to select the value to be changed for the SharePoint library column.

    Field Name Definition

    Internal Value

    Function:
    Specifies the new value for the SharePoint column.
    Accepted Values:
    • A valid column value.
    • An Xpath to a schema element
    Default Value:
    None
    Accepts Process Data Variables:
    No
  6. To change your columns, complete these fields as necessary.
    Field Name Definition

    Field Display Name

    Function:
    Specifies the SharePoint column names for your list or library.
    Accepted Values:
    Read only.

    The values show when you select a list item.

    Field Internal Value

    Function:
    Specifies the internal names of the SharePoint columns for your list or library.
    Accepted Values:
    Read only.

    The values show when you select a list item

    Meta Data Name

    Function:
    The name of the process data variable to store the list item field values. The values can be changed to a process attribute, an XML schema element, or SharePoint variable.
    Accepted Values:
    • A custom attribute.
    • An XPath to a schema element

      To add XML metadata associated with the process model, click the button in the MetaData Name field.

      In order to update the XML metadata with the retrieved field values, the AgilePoint Envision process template type must be either Microsoft InfoPath or Generic.
    • SharePoint metadata.
    Default Value:
    None.

    But when you add a field, the Meta Data Name column is completed with the internal name of the SharePoint column.

    Accepts Process Data Variables:
    Yes