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Hi all, perhaps I'm missing something very obvious but here it goes:
I have a file here on this demo site:
Important to note that the name of the document is in the column 'Name' and the column 'Title' is a seperate column that is empty.
I want to retrieve this file by it's name (Kwaliteitshandboek VitaFlora Zorgt).
which results in this error:
So I'm puzzled as to how to retrieve this specific document using the document's name.
If I run the Get Files without an oData query I can view the JSON data which shows me this:
I have removed alot of irrelevant things (headers, thumbnails and identifying information) from this JSON to keep it shorter
{ "statusCode": 200, "headers": { "Cache-Control": "max-age=0, private" }, "body": { "value": [ { "@odata.etag": "\"4\"", "ItemInternalId": "2", "ID": 2, "Modified": "2024-03-27T15:32:36Z", "Editor": { "@odata.type": "#Microsoft.Azure.Connectors.SharePoint.SPListExpandedUser", "Claims": "i:0#.f|membership|su", "DisplayName": "su", "Email": "su", "Picture": "https://.sharepoint.com/sites/VitaFlora/_layouts/15/UserPhoto.aspx?Size=L&AccountName=su", "Department": "", "JobTitle": "" }, "Editor#Claims": "i:0#.f|membership|su", "Created": "2024-03-27T15:14:46Z", "Author": { "@odata.type": "#Microsoft.Azure.Connectors.SharePoint.SPListExpandedUser", "Claims": "i:0#.f|membership|su", "DisplayName": "su", "Email": "su", "Picture": "https://.sharepoint.com/sites/VitaFlora/_layouts/15/UserPhoto.aspx?Size=L&AccountName=su", "Department": null, "JobTitle": null }, "Author#Claims": "i:0#.f|membership|su", "OData__DisplayName": "", "{Identifier}": "Gedeelde%2bdocumenten%252fPublicaties%252fKwaliteitshandboek%2bVitaFlora%2bZorgt.pdf", "{IsFolder}": false, "{Thumbnail}": { "Large": "h6" }, "{Link}": "https:// .sharepoint.com/sites/VitaFlora/Gedeelde%20documenten/Publicaties/Kwaliteitshandboek%20VitaFlora%20Zorgt.pdf", "{Name}": "Kwaliteitshandboek VitaFlora Zorgt", "{FilenameWithExtension}": "Kwaliteitshandboek VitaFlora Zorgt.pdf", "{Path}": "Gedeelde documenten/Publicaties/", "{FullPath}": "Gedeelde documenten/Publicaties/Kwaliteitshandboek VitaFlora Zorgt.pdf", "{IsCheckedOut}": false, "{VersionNumber}": "3.0" } ] } }
Which contains most importantly:
And ofcourse I also tried query with {Name} eq 'Kwaliteitshandboek VitaFlora Zorgt' but then the query is invalid.
What am I overlooking here?
Thanks in advance.
Hi @the_dude,
Try the internal names of those system type fields.
https://blog.softartisans.com/2009/12/08/list-of-internal-names-for-sharepoint-fields/
In this case try to use FileLeafRef.
Try the below as a Filter Query if you want to match the exact name of the file (including file extension)
FileLeafRef eq 'Kwaliteitshandboek VitaFlora Zorgt.pdf'
Or if you want to match it partially try:
startswith(FileLeafRef, 'Kwaliteitshandboek VitaFlora Zorgt')
Thanks, that was the trick. at least it was not something incredibly obvious I was overlooking but rather something incredibly obscure that you wonder how the .... does anyone figure this out?
Yeah, I agree. Hard to figure this out. That's why I am sharing.
I just know this from experience. I have been working with SharePoint for the last 17 years and it always has been FileLeafRef in all versions of SharePoint I worked with. That's why I can remember what the internal of this column is 😁
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