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Overview

SharePoint content types are a type of custom metadata that allow you to categorize files. DryvIQ supports mapping content types between the source and destination. Currently, content type mapping is only available through the DryvIQ REST API.

Retrieving Content Type

You can send a GET message through the REST API to retrieve the metadata schema for a SharePoint/Office 365/OneDrive for Business connection. You can retrieve the metadata schema for a file or folder based on the path for the file or folder or the ID for the file or folder. The examples below provide sample code.

GET by File Path

GET by File ID

GET by Folder Path

GET by Folder ID

The call will return return the metadata schema that includes a field called ContentTypeId. This field will list all possible choices for the content type caption (name) and value pairs. You can use these values to set the ContentTypeId field for a file or folder in the metadata mapping.

Adding Content Types to the Metadata When Creating a Job

To set up content type metadata mapping when creating a job, you must create a choice map that maps the source values to destination the values using the information provided by the GET metadata_schema endpoint. This information is added to the metadat_map in the transfer block.