Cognito Forms – Authentication Methods Supported for Connecting to SharePoint

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Trying to connect a Cognito form to a Sharepoint Foundation 2013 list, I get:

Cannot connect: invalid settings.

The Sharepoint site is using Forms-based authentication with a custom role/membership provider.

I have tried with FBA credentials as well as a Windows Auth account, and neither work.

I also tried changing the URL—using the top-level URL of the site collection as well as the direct URL to the list, plus a few other permutations, and none seemed to work.

Is connecting to a Sharepoint list not supported in this environment? What else would I do to troubleshoot connection problems?

Best Answer

I am a developer for Cognito Forms responsible for the SharePoint integration features.

Unfortunately, Cognito Forms does not currently support authentication with SharePoint web applications that utilize forms-based authentication. Supported authentication methods include Windows authentication for on-premises SharePoint web applications and SharePoint Online/Office 365 cloud-based authentication.

After some research, we believe we will be able to add support for multi-authentication SharePoint web applications by adding a custom authentication header to our web service request to force our system to authenticate using Windows authentication - detailed here. This would require your forms-based SharePoint web application to also have Windows Authentication enabled. Is this the case for your web application?