Sending and Saving SharePoint Attachments

Sends and saves a backed-up SharePoint item attachment with a specified ID.

Request

POST https://<hostname>:4443/v4/RestoreSessions/{restoreSessionId}/Organization/Sites/{siteId}/Items/{itemId}/Attachments/{attachmentId}/Action

Request Headers

The request header must contain an authorization token of the current session.

Request Body

Send

To send a SharePoint item attachment in an email message, the request body must contain the sendTo action properties:

Property	Type	Description
From	string	Specifies the email address from which the attachment will be sent.
To	string	Specifies the email address to which the attachment will be sent.
Subject	string	Specifies the subject of the email message used for sending the attachment.
Text	string	Specifies the body of the email message used for sending the attachment.

For example:

{

"sendTo":

{"from": "j_smith@bestsupport.onmicrosoft.com",

"to": "r.clark@bestsupport.onmicrosoft.com",

"subject": "Support Ticket",

"text": "Please find attached the files you requested"

}

Note:
To be able to send an item attachment, you must specify the Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SharePoint email settings by sending PUT HTTPS request to the /VESPEmailSettings URL. For more information, see (PUT) /VESPEmailSettings.

Save

To save a SharePoint item attachment, the request body must contain the save action:

{

"save": null

}

The request command will place the item attachment to a temporary folder on the Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 server. After that, the attachment will be transferred as application/octet-stream media to the client. To download, read or perform other actions with the octet-stream, use features of programming languages.

Sending and Saving SharePoint Attachments Tip:

You can use Swagger UI to download the attachment from the stream by clicking Download action link in the response body.

Response

The server returns the following response to the client.

Response Codes

A successfully completed operation returns a response code 200 (OK).

Response Headers

The response to this request contains the following headers. The response may also include additional standard HTTPS headers.

Header	Description
Content-length	The length of the response body.
Content-type	The media type and syntax of the request body message for the requests with the export and save actions: application/octet-stream. The media type and syntax of the request body message for the requests with the restore and send actions: null.

Header

Description

Content-length

The length of the response body.

Content-type

The media type and syntax of the request body message for the requests with the export and save actions: application/octet-stream.

The media type and syntax of the request body message for the requests with the restore and send actions: null.

Response Body

None.

Example 1

The following request saves a SharePoint item attachment.

Request:

POST https://abc.tech.local:4443/v4/RestoreSessions/742fe5ac-3ea6-422b-b204-757b15a47e56/Organization/Sites/ef10cefb-d29a-4dac-827a-d3702fc4ac8f6d7caa6b-bad0-4e67-9736-8bf5b0b55ebd/Items/ef10cefb-d29a-4dac-827a-d3702fc4ac8f6d7caa6b-bad0-4e67-9736-8bf5b0b55ebd0801b635-c19c-4435-a7c2-2fe46112bd3cd235bb5f-7aa8-4833-8f1b-b6dc1f22f13c/Attachments/ef10cefb-d29a-4dac-827a-d3702fc4ac8f6d7caa6b-bad0-4e67-9736-8bf5b0b55ebd0801b635-c19c-4435-a7c2-2fe46112bd3cd235bb5f-7aa8-4833-8f1b-b6dc1f22f13cd6b2e9b7-e37e-48fb-92fc-4dfb7721b59f/Action

Request Header:

Authorization: Bearer <Access-Token>

Request Body:

{

"save": null

}

Response:

200 OK

Example 2

The following request sends a SharePoint item attachment.

Request:

Request Header:

Authorization: Bearer <Access-Token>

Request Body:

{

"sendto" :

{

"from": "fromUser@example.com",

"to" : "toUser@example.com",

"subject" : "Send document",

"text" : "Hello. It’s your document!"

}

Response:

200 OK