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Karim786
Copper Contributor
Aug 08, 2022

Removing user from Sharing Links

Hello,

 

Is it possible to delete user from "Sharing Links" programmatically?.

 

Sharing Links are created by selecting a document and folder and clicking Share button.

 

I have noticed that it creates a Sharepoint group in the backend, but removing user from this Sharepoint group does not remove the user from sharing link.

 

What worst is if we remove the whole sharing link, it does not delete the link permanently, so in future if someone share the same document again it restores the deleted sharing link.

 

Thanks for your help.

 

Regards,

 

Karim

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  • kalpeshvaghela's avatar
    kalpeshvaghela
    Iron Contributor
    Aug 08, 2022

    Karim786 

     

    I have tried removing whole Sharing Link and tried to share same document again and here it's generating different link. So how have you validated that if we remove sharing link and resharing it again, it uses same link?

     

    How have you tried to remove sharing link? 

    • Karim786's avatar
      Karim786
      Copper Contributor
      Aug 08, 2022

      kalpeshvaghela 

      Thanks for your response

      I want to remove it programmatically, I am using this code using csom and it is not removing it properly.

       

      _ctx.Load(_ctx.Web, p => p.Title);
            _ctx.ExecuteQuery();
            string sname= _ctx.Web.Title;
            ListItem li = _ctx.Web.GetListItem(url);
            IEnumerable<RoleAssignment> roles = _ctx.LoadQuery(li.RoleAssignments.Include(roleAsg => roleAsg.Member,
                                                                      roleAsg => roleAsg.RoleDefinitionBindings.Include(roleDef => roleDef.Name)));
            _ctx.ExecuteQuery();
            IEnumerable<RoleAssignment> rolesfiltered = roles.Where(i => i.Member.LoginName.StartsWith("SharingLinks"));
            _ctx.ExecuteQuery();
foreach (RoleAssignment ra in rolesfiltered)
            {
ra.DeleteObject();
                
                _ctx.ExecuteQuery();

}
      • kalpeshvaghela's avatar
        kalpeshvaghela
        Iron Contributor
        Aug 08, 2022

        Karim786 

         

        If it's one time job then you can remove it from UI. Below are the steps:

         

        Step 1: Select folder or document and go to "Manage Access"

        Step 2: Click on Setting icon for the sharing link which you want to delete

         

         

        Step 3: Click on Delete icon

         

         

        Hope it will helpful to you.

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