Connection String Options
The connection string properties are the various options that can be used to establish a connection. This section provides a complete list of the options you can configure in the connection string for this provider. Click the links for further details.
For more information on establishing a connection, see Basic Tab.
| Property | Description |
| AuthScheme | The scheme used for authenticating to SharePoint. |
| URL | The base URL for the site. |
| SharePointEdition | The edition of SharePoint being used. Set either SharePoint Online or SharePoint On-Premise. |
| User | The SharePoint user account used to authenticate. |
| Password | The password used to authenticate the user. |
| Property | Description |
| AzureTenant | The Microsoft Online tenant being used to access data. If not specified, your default tenant is used. |
| AzureEnvironment | The Azure Environment to use when establishing a connection. |
| Property | Description |
| SSOLoginURL | The identity provider's login URL. |
| SSODomain | The domain of the user when using single sign-on (SSO). |
| SSOProperties | Additional properties required to connect to the identity provider, formatted as a semicolon-separated list. |
| Property | Description |
| InitiateOAuth | Set this property to initiate the process to obtain or refresh the OAuth access token when you connect. |
| OAuthClientId | The client Id assigned when you register your application with an OAuth authorization server. |
| OAuthClientSecret | The client secret assigned when you register your application with an OAuth authorization server. |
| OAuthAccessToken | The access token for connecting using OAuth. |
| CallbackURL | The OAuth callback URL to return to when authenticating. This value must match the callback URL you specify in your Add-In settings. |
| OAuthSettingsLocation | The location of the settings file where OAuth values are saved when InitiateOAuth is set to GETANDREFRESH or REFRESH . Alternatively, you can hold this location in memory by specifying a value starting with 'memory://'. |
| Scope | The scope used for the OAuth flow to access data from the Application. |
| State | Optional value for representing extra OAuth state information. |
| OAuthGrantType | The grant type for the OAuth flow. |
| OAuthVerifier | The verifier code returned from the OAuth authorization URL. |
| OAuthRefreshToken | The OAuth refresh token for the corresponding OAuth access token. |
| OAuthExpiresIn | The lifetime in seconds of the OAuth AccessToken. |
| OAuthTokenTimestamp | The Unix epoch timestamp in milliseconds when the current Access Token was created. |
| Property | Description |
| OAuthJWTCert | The JWT Certificate store. |
| OAuthJWTCertType | The type of key store containing the JWT Certificate. |
| OAuthJWTCertPassword | The password for the OAuth JWT certificate. |
| OAuthJWTIssuer | The issuer of the Java Web Token. |
| Property | Description |
| KerberosKDC | The Kerberos Key Distribution Center (KDC) service used to authenticate the user. |
| KerberosRealm | The Kerberos Realm used to authenticate the user. |
| KerberosSPN | The service principal name (SPN) for the Kerberos Domain Controller. |
| KerberosUser | The principal name for the Kerberos Domain Controller. Used in the format host/user@realm. |
| KerberosKeytabFile | The Keytab file containing your pairs of Kerberos principals and encrypted keys. |
| KerberosServiceRealm | The Kerberos realm of the service. |
| KerberosServiceKDC | The Kerberos KDC of the service. |
| KerberosTicketCache | The full file path to an MIT Kerberos credential cache file. |
| Property | Description |
| SSLClientCert | The TLS/SSL client certificate store for SSL Client Authentication (2-way SSL). |
| SSLClientCertType | The type of key store containing the TLS/SSL client certificate. |
| SSLClientCertPassword | The password for the TLS/SSL client certificate. |
| SSLClientCertSubject | The subject of the TLS/SSL client certificate. |
| SSLServerCert | The certificate to be accepted from the server when connecting using TLS/SSL. |
| Property | Description |
| FirewallType | The protocol used by a proxy-based firewall. |
| FirewallServer | The name or IP address of a proxy-based firewall. |
| FirewallPort | The TCP port for a proxy-based firewall. |
| FirewallUser | The user name to use to authenticate with a proxy-based firewall. |
| FirewallPassword | A password used to authenticate to a proxy-based firewall. |
| Property | Description |
| ProxyAutoDetect | When this connection property is set to True, the provider checks your system proxy settings for existing proxy server configurations (no need to manually supply proxy server details). Set to False if you want to manually configure the provider to connect to a specific proxy server. |
| ProxyServer | The hostname or IP address of the proxy server that you want to route HTTP traffic through. |
| ProxyPort | The TCP port that the proxy server (specified in the ProxyServer connection property) is running on. |
| ProxyAuthScheme | The authentication method the provider uses when authenticating to the proxy server specified in the ProxyServer connection property. |
| ProxyUser | The username of a user account registered with the proxy server specified in the ProxyServer connnection property. |
| ProxyPassword | The password associated with the user specified in the ProxyUser connection property. |
| ProxySSLType | The SSL type to use when connecting to the ProxyServer proxy. |
| ProxyExceptions | A semicolon separated list of destination hostnames or IPs that are exempt from connecting through the ProxyServer . |
| Property | Description |
| LogModules | Core modules to be included in the log file. |
| Property | Description |
| Location | A path to the directory that contains the schema files defining tables, views, and stored procedures. |
| Schema | The type of schema to use. |
| Property | Description |
| CalculatedDataType | The data type to be used for calculated fields. |
| ContinueOnError | Indicates whether or not to continue updating items in a batch after an error. |
| CreateIDColumns | Create supplemental ID columns for SharePoint columns that use values from information stored in other Lists. |
| DisableFilterLimit | Microsoft SharePoint natively supports listing up to 5000 records as they appear in your list filter. Enable this property to pull more than 5000 records from the list filter at the cost of additional performance overhead. |
| FolderOption | An option to determine how to display folders in results. Enter either FilesOnly, FilesAndFolders, Recursive, or RecursiveAll. |
| GetColumnsMetadata | Specifies when the provider should retrieve column metadata. |
| IncludeLookupColumns | This option controls whether the driver returns the lookup columns defined on a table. |
| IncludeLookupDisplayValueColumns | Determines whether the display values for lookup columns should be included. |
| MaxRows | Limits the number of rows returned when no aggregation or GROUP BY is used in the query. This takes precedence over LIMIT clauses. |
| Other | These hidden properties are used only in specific use cases. |
| Pagesize | The maximum number of results to return per page from Microsoft SharePoint. |
| Readonly | You can use this property to enforce read-only access to Microsoft SharePoint from the provider. |
| ShowHiddenColumns | Boolean determining if hidden columns should be shown or not. If false, all hidden columns will be removed from the column listing. |
| ShowPredefinedColumns | Boolean determining if predefined columns should be shown or not. If false, all columns derived from a base type will be removed from the column listing. |
| ShowVersionViews | Indicate whether to display the view of list versions. Such as ListA_Versions. |
| STSURL | The URL of the security token service (STS) when using single sign-on (SSO). |
| Timeout | The value in seconds until the timeout error is thrown, canceling the operation. |
| UseDisplayNames | Boolean determining if the display names for the columns should be used instead of the API names. |
| UseEntityTypeName | Boolean determining if the table name should be EntityTypeName instead of the title in the REST schema. |
| UseNTLMV1 | Determines whether the driver will attempt to connect with NTLMv1 or NTLMv2 (default). |
| UserDefinedViews | A filepath pointing to the JSON configuration file containing your custom views. |
| UseSimpleNames | Boolean determining if simple names should be used for tables and columns. |