SharePoint REST API Setting CheckoutUser using ValidateUpdateListItem()

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Tony-7954 asked May 2, '22 Tony-7954 commented May 13, '22

SharePoint REST API Setting CheckoutUser using ValidateUpdateListItem()

I am trying to update the CheckoutUser for a file in SharePoint because when the file is checked out in my code, it is being checked out by a SharePoint admin account and I want the CheckoutUser to show the person who actually checked it out. Whenever I make a request to _api/web/GetList(@path)/items(id)/ValidateUpdateListItem()?@path='/url' with the user info, I get a 200 response back and no errors, but for some reason the CheckoutUser value is cleared instead up updating to be the user that I want to set. This is what the request body looks like:

 {
     "formValues": [
         {
             "FieldName": "CheckoutUser",
             "FieldValue": "[{'Key': 'i:0#.w|user.name'}]"
         }
     ],
     "bNewDocumentUpdate": true
 }

I have tested out requests to both SharePoint 2016 and SharePoint Online using Postman and have not been able to get the CheckoutUser to update in either case.

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Answer 1 · 2022-05-03T07:05:01.657Z

TongZhangMSFT-7548 answered May 3, '22 Tony-7954 commented May 13, '22

Hi @Tony-7954,

Thanks for the detailed description of the case. When I received the case, I searched a lot of documents did a lot of researches.

I use the REST API _api/web/lists('list-id')/items(id)/ValidateUpdateListItem() to do test ,but I get the error: The file \"https://xxxxx.sharepoint.com/sites/xxxx/test1/Document1.docx\" is checked out for editing by i:0#.f|membership|xxx@xxxxx. (the screenshot of my test results is as follows) .

We will continue to research this issue ,If there is an update or progress, will tell you in time. Thank you for your understanding and support.

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TongZhangMSFT-7548 · May 10 at 06:15 AM

Hi @Tony-7954

I am checking to see if the problem has been resolved. If you have any questions or progress, you can contact me in time.

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Tony-7954 TongZhangMSFT-7548 · May 13 at 04:04 PM

Hi @TongZhangMSFT-7548, haven't been able to make any progress on this so let me know if this gets resolved.

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