Create a workspace in Microsoft Sharepoint

[salazachou]

Hi everyone, I looking for a way to create a Knime workspace in Sharepoint because we got a sort of warning from the IT department that the shared folders will be replaced at some point. So sooner or latter I need to move my workspace to Sharepoint.

I already managed to connect to sharepoint and read some Excel files, see below.

But I wonder which path should I need to include in the workspace?

I dragged and dropped a workflow from the shared folder K: to sharepoint which probably may help

Thank you

[marvin.kickuth]

Hi @salazachou,

KNIME Analytics Platform uses the local machine’s file system to store the workspace. This can’t be changed.

What you could do is mount your SharePoint site as a network drive (see e.g. https://www.clouddirect.net/knowledge-base/KB0011543/mapping-a-sharepoint-site-as-a-network-drive#:~:text=There%20are%20three%20steps%3A,site%20as%20a%20network%20drive), though that may cause a significant reduction in performance due to the network latency.

Kind regards
Marvin

[salazachou]

Hi Marvin thank you very much

[salazachou]

Marvin another question is if you can make a similar process with One Drive instead?.

For instance this https://thegeekpage.com/map-onedrive-to-a-drive-letter/

Best Regards

[marvin.kickuth]

Hi @salazachou,

As long as the operating system shows the storage device or service as part of its filesystem, you should be able to select it as workspace. However, any drive with a high latency may cause slowdowns during normal usage, so I do recommend local, fast storage while it is available.

It may also be an option to develop within a local folder and regularly make backups of it to a shared drive.

Kind regards
Marvin