Connect your SharePoint account

To connect your SharePoint account, click Authorize to login with your Microsoft account credentials.

Note: you may be asked to set up an authenticator app (for multi-factor authentication), or submit an authorization request to your IT administrator. This is dictated by your company’s Microsoft account settings.

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Selecting a file

To select the specific file you want to work with:

1. Select the site - the dropdown will show all SharePoint sites that you have access to
2. Select the drive
3. Search for the specific file you’re looking for - you can enter a term or paste in the entire file name. The dropdown will show all matching files
4. The first matching file will automatically appear in the Results view. You can select a specific sheet, for files with multiple

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File types supported

• XLS, XLSX*
• CSV (comma (,) delimiter)
• TSV (tab delimiter)
• JSON
• XML

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Helpful tips

• This step pulls data in exactly as it is shown in SharePoint. Formatted dates and numbers will be pulled in and shown in their formatted state. Visual formatting, such as colors, font changes, or sizing will not show up in Parabola.
• Changes you make to the SharePoint file can take several minutes to appear in Parabola (between 10-30 minutes).
• There may be some delay between updating your SharePoint site permissions and seeing those sites available in your Parabola step.
• Updates to Excel workbooks can take up to several minutes to be reflected in SharePoint.
• *The Microsoft API has a size limit for Excel workbooks of 100 MB. Attempting to pull an Excel workbook greater than 100 MB will result in an error, and you will be prompted to reduce the size of your workbook. This does not apply to .xls file extensions, only .xlsx.
  

Connect your SharePoint account

To connect your SharePoint account, click Authorize to login with your Microsoft account credentials.

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Custom settings

First, select whether to create a new file, or update an existing file.

Create a new file

Select the file type, and enter a file name. Then, indicate where the file should be saved: select a site, and drive. Within a drive, you can either save to the root of the drive (default), or search for a specific folder to save to.

Update an existing file

First, choose the file you want to update by selecting a site, and drive. Then, search for the file by name.

Once your file is selected, you can decide how to update it:

1. Replace entire file - all file types
2. Append to bottom - Excel files only

(Note, you can specify which sheet of an Excel file to update.)

File types supported

• XLSX
• CSV (comma (,) delimiter)
• TSV (tab delimiter)
• JSON
• XML

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Helpful tips

• Updates to Excel workbooks can take up to several minutes to be reflected in SharePoint.
• The Microsoft API has a size limit for Excel workbooks of 100 MB or 1,048,576 rows by 16,384 columns. (Read about other limits here.)
• If the size of the workbook you want to update already exceeds 100 MB or the max row and column limit, the API will return an error when Parabola attempts to fetch workbook metadata.
• If you are overwriting a worksheet and the data you're sending exceeds 100 MB or the max row and column limit, the Flow calculation will return an error. If you are appending to a worksheet and the data you're sending exceeds the remaining space of your workbook or will result in max row and column limit being exceeded, the Flow calculation will also return an error. In both cases you will be prompted to reduce the size of either your workbook or input data.