Sharepoint Connector 3.1 - No Way to Limit Site Selection?

Question

I’m running into a major usability issue with the new SharePoint Files connector in Alteryx and wanted to see if others have the same experience or if I'm doing something wrong.

In our tenant, there are ~3,000 SharePoint sites. When configuring the Files connector, Alteryx forces me to scroll through the entire site list with:

* no search, no filter, no sort
* no way to paste a known site or library path

I’ve tried manually entering valid SharePoint/Graph paths (site URLs, document library paths, URL‑encoded paths, etc.), but every attempt results in “Invalid Path” and the UI falls back to full site enumeration.

This works very poorly at enterprise scale — after scrolling through hundreds of sites, it’s still easy to miss the one I actually need. The Path field looks editable, but in practice it doesn’t accept usable paths for Files.

Please help.  Thanks.

summarizer · Answer

Thanks.  Yeh, when I use a full link it doesn't work.  Then I progressively shorten the link back to each slash and try.  And then I remove the slash too and try again.  Appreciate the help though. And yes, I did already open a ticket too.  It totally shouldn't be this hard, so I'm hoping it's just a setting change I need to make.

alexnajm · Answer

I'm sorry then - I don't have another suggestion at this stage since it works fine for me and I can't test with your sites. The only thing I can say is that the value in your screenshot is not what got from my "copy link".

You should submit it as a case to be addressed by Alteryx Support!

summarizer · Answer

Thanks, but that's not working for me.  Perhaps it's the way I have it set up.  As you can see in my screen grab above, I have a path and I've tried dozens of combinations. When I click into one of the initial hundred sites that first come up, I can see that the path then shows just "sites/XYZ site", so I've tried that too.