SharePoint endpoint and testing

Hello,

I am new to ION. I am trying a first time connection using ION to our company SharePoint. There is an in-house SharePoint application that I need to access to retrieve data from and insert into EAM.

What do I need to setup within IONAPI and/or ION Connect? How do I go about testing the connection to see if the connection and credentials were successful?

Really appreciate it if someone could send me screenshots of a sample connection setup with what fields I need to fill in.

Do I need to do anything with EAM Databridge setup as well? If so, sample screens would be appreciated.

Thank you.

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Hey RST,

Great to see you join up! You're going to want to check out Chapter 4 of the Infor ION Desk User Guide and dive into the section on the Enterprise Connector (page 64 at the time of this post).

Enterprise Connector (EC) allows you to connect apps and systems inside of your network with Infor OS in the cloud. The premise is fairly straight forward - you download, install, and configure the EC agent on a server within your network and ION is then able to coordinate transactions through this agent between the ground and cloud.

You'll need to navigate over to ION Desk > Connect > Enterprise Locations. From the toolbar, click the + icon to create a new location and provide a name. You'll be prompted to download or copy a set of credentials that you'll need for the installer process.

From here, select the download icon in the toolbar and that'll pull down a copy of the EC installer .jar. Copy that over to your server (or download it from inside the VM) and you can run through the wizard which will walk you through set-up pretty seamlessly. You'll need to ensure you have a JDK setup on the VM - AWS Coretto being a good option - and have a database available for the installer to create and store configuration properties and integration features to.

After all that's done, you'll see that your location in the Enterprise Location screen should have an OK status and when you dive back into the connection point, you'll see your new location available to select. From there, just a matter of setting up your connection point properties to hit your SharePoint server.

Enjoy

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Just got some more info from our SharePoint guys that I can access their SQL table.

I was thinking of using the ION Desk->Connect->Connection Points instead. However, I am required to enter a Location. Where do I create a Location for selection? I looked through the Infor ION Technology Connectors Admin Guide 12.0.x under Database Connection points, yet I do not see any mentioning of Location in that section.

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Legacy Contributor

Hey RST,

Great to see you join up! You're going to want to check out Chapter 4 of the Infor ION Desk User Guide and dive into the section on the Enterprise Connector (page 64 at the time of this post).

Enjoy

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Hello Mike,

WOW! Thank you so much. That is definitely a much better way to go. I have downloaded the EC and I will give it to our IT guys to install in the morning. This doc was much better than the other one I was referencing.

Thanks again.

Legacy Contributor

For sure, happy to help. If you navigate the documentation tree (Infor Operating Service > 12.0.x Cloud Edition > x) in the support portal, you'll find there are three docs that're generally going to be useful for you -

Infor ION Desk User Guide (under User Guides in the doc tree)
Infor ION Desk Development Guide (under Development Guides)
Infor ION Technology Connectors Administration Guide (under Administration Guides)

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Again, thanks Mike. More great reading material. Just starting out and kinda intimidated. Appreciate all the help I can get. Still waiting for internal IT to install the jar file. They seem hesitant because it's new to them. Hopefully, they install it soon.

Went to several of your Data Lake sessions at Inforum2019. Very informative and well-executed. Hopefully, I get to start utilizing our Data Lake in a few months.

Thanks again.

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