Quick Desktop - SharePoint Action Connector — Download / Read File Content

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Feature Request: SharePoint Action Connector — Download / Read File Content

Category: Integrations → Microsoft SharePoint Online
Priority: High

Summary

The SharePoint action connector currently supports searching for files (SearchSiteDriveItems) and uploading files (UploadFile), but there’s no action to download or read file content. This makes it impossible to build workflows that process SharePoint documents programmatically — you can find files but can’t actually read them.

Use Case

We’re trying to use Amazon Quick to analyse customer call recording transcripts stored in SharePoint. The workflow is:

  1. ✅ Search SharePoint for transcript files (.docx, .vtt) — works great via SearchSiteDriveItems
  2. ❌ Download/read the file content so Quick can process it — not possible
  3. Convert or summarise the content
  4. ✅ Upload processed results back to SharePoint — works via UploadFile

Steps 1 and 4 work perfectly. Step 2 is the blocker. We’re stuck with links to files that we can see exist but can’t actually read.

What’s Missing

The Microsoft Graph API fully supports this via the /content endpoint on drive items (or via @microsoft.graph.downloadUrl on item metadata). The connector just doesn’t expose it as an available action.

Proposed actions:

  • DownloadFile or GetFileContent — Given a siteId, driveId, and driveItemId (all of which are already returned by SearchSiteDriveItems), return the file content or a download URL that Quick can fetch.

Current Workaround

None that work purely within Quick. Users have to manually download from SharePoint and re-upload to the conversation — which defeats the purpose of having the connector.

Impact

This is a significant gap for anyone using SharePoint as their document store (which is most Microsoft 365 organisations). Without it, the connector is limited to metadata operations and can’t participate in document processing workflows — summarisation, conversion, analysis, extraction, etc.

Environment: Amazon Quick Desktop (macOS), SharePoint Online connector (Default OAuth app)
Connector version: Current as of May 2026

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Hi @Tom_Kerswill,

Thanks for bringing this current Quick limitation regarding SharePoint connector up! I will make sure to mark this post as a Feature Request and archive it so that the AWS Team may be able to address this in the future.