Office 365 discard check out

Discards the check out for items in a document library on 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 check outs to be discarded.

Document library

Name of the document library containing the check outs to be discarded.

Items to discard check out

Query to determine items for which to discard check outs. Includes filters and subfolder options.

Select one of the following items for the query.

  • Query builder: Build a query to filter for check outs to discard. 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, discards check outs for items within subfolders.

Select one of the following for Filters.

  • Discard check out for all list items: Discards check outs for all items in the document library.
  • Discard check out only when the following is true:
    • Discard check out 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 have check outs discarded.

SharePoint Online URL

URL of the SharePoint Online website domain. Example: http://targetdomain.sharepoint.com.
Connection
  • Permissions required: Discard check outs 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: Discard check outs in the specified document library.

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

All matched items check out discarded

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