sp-dev-fx-webparts/samples/react-teams-graph-upload-as-pdf

Teams Graph Upload as PDF

Summary

This SPFx web part (or Teams Tab) enables a user to upload a supported file type via drag and drop while the uploaded file will be converted as PDF. In SharePoint context it uploads to the default drive (library) while in Teams context it uses the current channel as a Folder name in the default drive. It uses the following capabilities (mostly) on behalf of Microsoft Graph:

• Use HTML5 drag and drop event handling
• Writing normal files smaller 4MB
• Retrieving files with format=pdf conversion

A detailed functionality and technical description can be found in the author's blog post

Compatibility

⚠️ Important
Every SPFx version is only compatible with specific version(s) of Node.js. In order to be able to build this sample, please ensure that the version of Node on your workstation matches one of the versions listed in this section. This sample will not work on a different version of Node.
Refer to https://aka.ms/spfx-matrix for more information on SPFx compatibility.

Applies to

• SharePoint Framework
• Microsoft 365 tenant

Solution

Solution	Author(s)
react-teams-graph-upload-as-pdf	Markus Moeller (@moeller2_0)

Version history

Version	Date	Comments
1.0	November 10, 2020	Initial release
1.1	November 08, 2021	Updated to SPFx 1.13 & Shared with PnP repo

Minimal Path to Awesome

• Clone this repository (or download this solution as a .ZIP file then unzip it)
• Ensure that you are at the solution folder
• in the command-line run:
  • npm install
  • gulp bundle --ship
  • gulp package-solution --ship
• Upload your package from /sharepoint/solution/ to your app catalog
• In SharePoint CA approve following web api permissions
  • Files.ReadWrite
  • Sites.ReadWrite.All

This sample can also be opened with VS Code Remote Development. Visit https://aka.ms/spfx-devcontainer for more information.

Features

This web part illustrates the following concepts:

• Use HTML5 drag and drop event handling
• Writing normal files smaller 4MB
• Retrieving files with format=pdf conversion
• FluentUI Progress Indicator

Alternative

When looking for a robust solution in Microsoft Teams espacially also consider my alternative sample created with the yeoman generator for Teams. There the up- and download functionality takes place in the backend and not via the frontend (browser). Of course consider the same code to be combined with a SPFx forntend (only). (https://github.com/pnp/teams-dev-samples/tree/main/samples/tab-sso-graph-upload-as-pdf)

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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.