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Url validation for SharePoint using Office Graph

Summary

This sample contains a class that evaluates the url input of a text field against the Microsoft Graph. It is possible to evalute the existance of the following three SharePoint Elements:

Site Collection
Web Site
Lists and Document libraries

The web part shows all those three examples and the results returned by the Microsoft Graph.

Usage

To evaluate the web part the input for site collection, web site or list and document library simply place a URL from your tenant in one of the text fields shown above. After the text field loses onblur its focus the evaluation happens automatically in the background and showing the debug information in the debugging information.

Project Setup and important files

src
└── webparts
    └── graphEvalUrl
        ├── GraphEvalUrlWebPart.manifest.json
        ├── GraphEvalUrlWebPart.ts
        ├── components
        │   ├── GraphEvalClient.ts    **<-- Evalution Class**
        │   ├── GraphEvalDebug.tsx    **<-- Debug Panel Component**
        │   ├── GraphEvalUrl.module.scss
        │   ├── GraphEvalUrl.module.scss.ts
        │   ├── GraphEvalUrl.tsx      **<-- Demo Control for web part**
        │   └── IGraphEvalUrlProps.ts
        └── loc
            ├── en-us.js
            └── mystrings.d.ts

Compatibility

Demo

Applies to

Solution

Solution	Author(s)
react-graph-evalurl	Stefan Bauer (MVP, Stefan Bauer - N8D, @stfbauer )

Version history

Version	Date	Comments
1.0.0	April 15, 2018	Initial release

Prerequisites

SharePoint Online tenant with Office Graph content
Site Collection created under the /sites/ or /

Minimal Path to Awesome

clone this repo
$ npm i
$ gulp serve --nobrowser
Open workbench on your tenant, ie. https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/salestesm/_layouts/15/workbench.aspx
Search and add web part "Graph - Eval Url"

Features

This sample web part shows how URLs in SharePoint can be checked and evaluated against the Microsoft Graph. This scenario and the introduced class can be use to evluate not only user input but can also be used in the configuration panel of web parts. The benefit is that the URL of the target location remains visible and can be use for debugging reasons to. The class returns all the Graph objects identified during the evaluation process. It can also be used in backend code.

using React for building SharePoint Framework Client-side Web Parts
using Office UI Fabric React components
create additional custom react components
access information from the Microsoft Graph using SharePoint Framework version 1.4.1 and above
using ES6 Promises with vanilla-JavaScript web requests

Limitations

To identify a list or document library the following two token will be use:

'Forms' - View or SharePoint List Form for document libraries
'Lists' - SharePoint stores all lists in the sub folder lists so this will be use to identify if a list is present in the URL

Help

We do not support samples, but we this community is always willing to help, and we want to improve these samples. We use GitHub to track issues, which makes it easy for community members to volunteer their time and help resolve issues.

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Disclaimer

THIS CODE IS PROVIDED AS IS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, MERCHANTABILITY, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.

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