Office 365 check out items

Checks out items from a document library in SharePoint Online.

Note: This is an external action and may execute on servers running outside your data center Centralized locations used to house servers used by Nintex for remote storage, processing, or distribution of data. Nintex has a number of regional data centers available for Nintex for Office 365. For information about Nintex data centers and where your data center is located, contact your Nintex account or territory manager. region. Before implementing, consider performance and regional concerns where digital boundaries are an issue. For more information, see In-tenant and external actions.

Action settings

Do one of the following to open the Action configuration window:

  • Double-click the action.
  • Click on the action and then click Configure.

See Action configuration window for more information.

Field Description
Destination site URL

URL of the site containing the items to be checked out.
Document library

Name of the document library containing the items to be checked out.
Items to check out

Query to determine items to be checked out. Includes filters and subfolder options.

Select one of the following items for the query.

  • Query builder: Build a query to filter for items to check out. View the CAML at any time by switching to the CAML Editor mode.

  • CAML editor: Create a more advanced query using XML encoding.

Select or clear the following check box.

  • Include subfolders: When selected, checks out items within subfolders.

Select one of the following for Filters.

  • Check out all list items: Checks out all items in the library.
  • Check out items only when the following is true:
    • Check in the items when column / When column: Specify a column, select an operator, and specify a value.
    • Add filter rule: Add a filter.
    • Delete (): Delete a filter. Displayed for second and subsequent filters.

    • And / Or: Specify how to group sequential filters.

      Note: All items returned from the filter are checked out.
SharePoint Online URL

URL of the SharePoint Online website domain. Example: http://targetdomain.sharepoint.com.
Connection
  • Permissions required: Check out items in the specified document library.
  • Connection type required: SharePoint Online: List & library. For more information about Connection types, see Connection types and Connector actions.
Username / Password

(Displayed for legacy actions not yet updated.) Unmanaged credentials.

  • Permissions required: Check out items in the specified document library.

Note: As a best practice, manage credentials by updating actions to use connections.

All matched items checked out

Boolean variable to store operation result. Returns "Yes" if all matched items were successfully checked out.
For more information about how to use Lookups in configuration fields, see Lookups in action configuration fields.