Custom SharePoint Solutions with HTML and JavaScript For SharePoint
The content and screenshots in this book are based on SharePoint 2013. The techniques shown can also be applied to SharePoint 2016.Custom SharePoint Solutions with HTML and JavaScript shows you how to build and customize SharePoint solutions to suit a wid
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Contents at a Glance About the Author��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� xiii About the Technical Reviewer���������������������������������������������������������������������������������xv Introduction�����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������xvii ■■Chapter 1: Setting Up Your Environment��������������������������������������������������������������� 1 ■■Chapter 2: Introduction to SharePoint Front-End Solutions�������������������������������� 23 ■■Chapter 3: Content Editor and Script Editor Web Parts��������������������������������������� 37 ■■Chapter 4: Building Custom Web Parts Using HTML and JavaScript������������������� 49 ■■Chapter 5: Using JSLink to Style List Web Parts������������������������������������������������� 79 ■■Chapter 6: Content Search Web Part and Display Templates���������������������������� 105 ■■Chapter 7: Working with SharePoint’s Built-in JavaScript Functions and Properties��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 133 ■■Chapter 8: Working with the JavaScript Object Model�������������������������������������� 141 ■■Chapter 9: Working with the REST API�������������������������������������������������������������� 185 Index��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 227
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Introduction SharePoint has come a very long way over the years. Development in SharePoint has had just as long a journey, often much more bumpy. There are still many highly skilled developers who would rather chew their own arm off than become a SharePoint developer! However, SharePoint is not going anywhere anytime soon, and with the popularity of Office 365 and SharePoint Online growing every day, developers will find themselves being asked to create custom solutions more often. In the past this would have meant installing SharePoint on your PC, learning new APIs that were unfamiliar, getting up to speed on deployment processes, and more. You could easily look at those hurdles and become frustrated, which is common. Luckily, with SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint Online you have more options. Starting with SharePoint 2013, Microsoft greatly enhanced what could be done in the browser with JavaScript. This included a brand-new REST API and an expanded set of JavaScript libraries utilizing the JavaScript Object Model, or JSOM for short. These were originally built for use with Apps for SharePoint, which is a new development model in SharePoint 2013. Apps allow you to write code that targets SharePoint and then deploy it somewhere else. You could write custom solutions and deploy them to the cloud, and your end users would never know the difference. This was great because it gave developers more freedom and kept custom code off the SharePoint servers. While JSOM and the REST API are great for Apps, there usage does not need to end there. These tools can ea
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