This section lists all configuration parameters available to configure the SharePoint 2016 Source component.

Element
Type
Default
Example
Description
urlString

SharePoint URL which will serve as the start of the crawl. Folders and documents underneath this URL will be automatically fetched and sent to the search engine, along with metadata and ACLs. This is the same URL you will see in your web crawler as you browse SharePoint.

It should not be a URL to a form or document, but the actual URL to the SharePoint object. For example instead of https://sharepoint.domain.com/Pages/home.aspx it should be https://sharepoint.domain.com.

In this version of the Aspire SharePoint 2016 Connector, the URL must be one of the following:

  • A SharePoint site collection
  • A SharePoint Site
  • A SharePoint List
domainString
  • myDomain
  • Support
  • etc.
Domain where the user will be authenticated
userString

Username with permissions to access SharePoint content. Must have appropriate SharePoint permissions to the documents in the URL.

User names should be ASCII characters

passwordString

Password for the specified user.
useExtraSiteCollectionsbooleanfalse

Enables crawling of additional site collections.

siteCollectionUrlstringfalse

Additional site collection to crawl

It should not be a URL to a form or document, but the actual URL to the SharePoint object. For example instead of https://sharepoint.domain.com/Pages/home.aspx it should be https://sharepoint.domain.com.

In this version of the Aspire SharePoint 2016 Connector, the URL must be one of the following:

  • A SharePoint site collection
  • A SharePoint Site
  • A SharePoint List
groupPrefixSeparatorString | (pipe)

Prefix used to separate users and groups on ACL's file. For GSA users, the following characters should not be used: '@','/','\','#'; for GSA the character '|' is recommended.

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