{"id":191,"date":"2018-02-14T10:00:24","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T04:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tenthplanet.in\/?p=191"},"modified":"2026-03-03T10:15:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T10:15:44","slug":"integrating-sharepoint-to-salesforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/blogs\/integrating-sharepoint-to-salesforce\/","title":{"rendered":"Integrating SharePoint to Salesforce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"en-IN\">SharePoint to Salesforce integration can be done using the below two components <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span lang=\"en-IN\">File Connect &#8211; Access the SharePoint files.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-IN\">Lightning Connect &#8211; Access the SharePoint Meta information.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span lang=\"en-IN\"><b>Using Salesforce \u2018Files Connect\u2019 Component:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-192\" src=\"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/blog-sharepoint1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"806\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2018\/02\/blog-sharepoint1.jpg 806w, https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2018\/02\/blog-sharepoint1-300x133.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2018\/02\/blog-sharepoint1-768x340.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 806px) 100vw, 806px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-IN\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span lang=\"en-IN\"><b>Files Connect- \u2018Share a copy\u2019 vs \u2018Share a reference\u2019:<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-IN\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span lang=\"en-IN\"><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-193\" src=\"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/blog-sharepoint2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2018\/02\/blog-sharepoint2.jpg 700w, https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2018\/02\/blog-sharepoint2-300x126.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/b><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span lang=\"en-IN\"><b>Using Salesforce \u2018Lightning Connect\u2019 Component:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-194\" src=\"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/blog-sharepoint3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"825\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2018\/02\/blog-sharepoint3.jpg 825w, https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2018\/02\/blog-sharepoint3-300x119.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2018\/02\/blog-sharepoint3-768x303.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span lang=\"en-IN\"><b>Files Connect \u2013 Features<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span lang=\"en-IN\">User access the SharePoint files from Salesforce.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-IN\">Share a SharePoint file with the other users, groups in Salesforce.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-IN\">Share a SharePoint file to the chatter in Salesforce.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-IN\">Browse and search for a SharePoint file from Salesforce.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-IN\">Download the SharePoint files from Salesforce.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-IN\">Users can also attach the SharePoint files to feeds, groups or records<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>Lightning Connect \u2013 Features<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Provides a simple way to integrate data from SharePoint to Salesforce<\/li>\n<li>Data transfer is Secure.<\/li>\n<li>Lightning connect behaves like a custom object, views, tab and reports in Salesforce.<\/li>\n<li>Auto sync of data between SharePoint and Salesforce<\/li>\n<li>It consumes data from any external data sources (like SharePoint, Sql Server, etc.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span lang=\"en-IN\"><b>Lightning Connect vs Files Connect<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-195\" src=\"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/blog-sharepoint4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"691\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2018\/02\/blog-sharepoint4.jpg 691w, https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2018\/02\/blog-sharepoint4-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 691px) 100vw, 691px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salesforce and SharePoint integration can be done using the below two components. File Connect, Lightning Connect<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":1075,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-salesforce","tag-sharepoint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}