[kabakakao]

Hello,
My colleagues and me are facing issues with shared folders in 
OneDrive Business. Nearly all are not shown anymore. In OneDrive Web and in the official App everything is looking fine. Was there a change in listing shared folders?

Regards,
Stephan

[Zubersoft]

There certainly was no change on my end. I will run some tests and research this to see if Microsoft changed something on their end.

Mike

[Zubersoft]

Multiple developers are reporting this issue: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answer...-in-onedri

It definitely seems like Microsoft broke something with their API. Hopefully it's something they will fix on their end and not force developers to make changes.

Mike

[Zubersoft]

It looks like Microsoft silently deprecated some of the SDK (https://github.com/microsoftgraph/micros...dwithme.md) and then broke it even though it's only supposed to stop working in 2027. So I'll have to research further what I'm supposed to do.

Mike

[Zubersoft]

So Microsoft broke the functionality, have not provided any alternatives and may just drop support for shared folders and files through their API. However, I think they will have to fix it, as it's impacting a lot of developers and is not supposed to stop working until 2027 as I mentioned in the previous post. Here is another discussion about it: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answer...-returns-j

Mike

[Zubersoft]

I have no idea what the resolution will be for this. If sharing files and folders is critical for you, I would actually recommend dropping OneDrive entirely and switching to Dropbox or Google Drive (or a webDAV-based service which I will be supporting soon).

Mike

[kabakakao]

Hi Mike,
Thanks for your Investigation. Unfortunately OneDrive is the only WebStorage we can use.
Would it be possible to add an Option, that a User can add at least one Link which can be created in OneDrive?

I am not sure how much effort it will take but that is the only „workaround“ I could find for that

Regards,
Stephan

[Zubersoft]

I'm not sure what you mean by that. Microsoft is only ever returning a single result from the "sharedWithMe" option, and there is nothing I can do about that. How are you envisioning this "link" will work? Would the user have to type in the ID of the folder to link to? That's the only way to access a shared folder - you can't do it using a path, and I can't access it through "Shared with Me" as I wouldn't be able to query for any folders due to the bug with Microsoft's API. I'll have to see if it will at least return the right result if an exact folder name is specified and that one folder name is returned. I guess then you could enter in /Shared with Me/<folder name> as a direct path to access.

Mike

[kabakakao]

Hi Mike,

I will try to explain it in more detail.
In OneDrive you have the possibility to share a folder through a link.
In that case it will not be shown in the "SharedWithMe" Area and you have to know the Link to Access this folder.
If I understand the Graph API correctly, these links can be read.

Regards,
Stephan

[Zubersoft]

I'm assuming you are referring to this: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/...&tabs=http

I'll have to see how well that works. This also requires the user to enter the link, so I'd have to add all the necessary code to allow that.

Thanks,
Mike

[kabakakao]

Exactly.
If you need any assistance with testing, feel free to ping me.

Regards,
Stephan

[kabakakao]

Hi Mike,
I googled around a Bit because the Problem still exists. There seems to be a workaround with the search API which is not deprecated:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answer...on-returns
(answer by Macri Alessandro December 5th, 3:37 PM)

What do you think about it?

Best Regards,
Stephan

[kabakakao]

Hi Mike,

Hope you had a Merry Christmas.
Have you tried that workaround already?
Would you be able to implement it?
Otherwise I have to find a different way of sharing files with my colleagues.

Best Regards,
Stephan

[Zubersoft]

That workaround is not usable unfortunately, because it requires knowing ahead of time the Drive ID of the other user whose shared folders you want to view. That is not something that is known ahead of time with my user interface, and there is nowhere for a user to enter that (if they would even know what drive ID to enter, as that is not something that is publicly listed anywhere). It also doesn't work for personal accounts.

Mike

[kabakakao]

Hi Mike,
Thanks for your investigation.
While searching for an alternative, I had a new idea:

In the WebUI you can create „Soft-Links“ of Shared Folders in your private Folders.
And these Links should be seen by the API. Unfortunately I cannot see them in MobileSheets yet.

Would it be possible to integrate them?

Regards,
Stephan