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VesaJuvonen
Microsoft
MicrosoftNew SharePoint /Office Dev Patterns and Practices Webcast - Getting started with SharePoint WebHooks
In this PnP Web Cast we concentrated on showing how to get started with upcoming SharePoint Webhooks. SharePoint Webhooks allow developers to build service integration which subscribe to receive notifications on specific events that occur in SharePoint. When one of those events are triggered, SharePoint will send a HTTP POST payload to subscriber. SharePoint Webhooks will be supported for asynchorinious events, like for ItemAdded or ItemAttachmentAdded. To be able to subscribe to SharePoint Webhooks, you'll need to build a service, which will response on the subscribed validation messages and will process the incoming events.
Notice. When this webcast was released SharePoint Webhooks were not yet released. They will be provided for Developer Preview soon with support for list item specific events for lists and libraries.
Presentation covers following topics:
- What are Webhooks?
- Process for subscribing to a SharePoint Webhook
- Event notifications from SharePoint
- Demo setup and details on performed steps
Web cast demo shows following details
- Registration of Azure App used for Webhook
- Using PostMan to register a Webhook for SharePoint
- Responding to Webhook validation tokens from ASP.net WebAPI
- Processing incoming events from SharePoint
- Using ngrok to develop SharePoint Webhooks locally in your development environment
Web cast presenters: Bert Jansen, Vesa Juvonen
Presentation used in this web cast is available from http://docs.com/OfficeDevPnP.
More guidance and details around the SharePoint webhooks will be soon available from SharePoint developer center.
If you have any questions, feedback or comments; please let us know.
Is there any update on when Webhooks will be available? The presentation suggests summer '16 but I still get the message that it is an unavailble experimental feature in my developer tenant.
I've created the shownotes for this webcast.
If you want to quickly go to any part of the webcast click the link next to it..
Introduction
Theory: What are webhooks
Theory: Subscribe to a webhook
Theory: Event notification in action
Theory: Demo Setup
Start Demo
Demo: Create Application inside Azure AD
Demo: Postman Configuration
Demo: Do a GET request - Getting the library ID and Title
Demo: Into Visual Studio - High level explaining the API Service
Demo: Launching the API Service in Localhost
Demo: Launch NgRok to conntect Localhost to Postman
Demo: Creating the subscription
Question: What about the 5 second timeout - Where did we see that?
Demo: Final part of the demo - Making a change in the document library
Theory: Resources for this demo
- VesaJuvonen
We are looking to get the webhooks to on-premises as well, but there's no specific time line or agreed feature pack which it will be delivered at this point. We'll share additional details when they are available.
- Just watching it!
