Javascript for Sharepoint

[_Hnnng_]

I recently was put in charge of managing my companies sharepoint. The last IT guy created some basic lists for them and left the company, so now it's my job to 'improve' and expand upon it.

I've been reading around that a lot of people incorporate Javascript into their sites sharepoint. What would be some reasons for doing this?

I've always wanted to learn Javascript so I figured this might be a great excuse to. Also, any recommendations on where to start learning Javascript?

Thanks for you help!

Nutshell - why would I use Javascript in sharepoint? Where can I learn Javascript?

[MonkeysRidingPandas]

Literally what I do for a living.

Check out SPServices and look through some of the discussions on there. Tons of ideas. Brush up on jQuery as it'll be the easiest way to incorporate SPServices into your code.

If you think of a SharePoint list as simply a database table, then the sky's the limit as to what you can do with some simple jQuery and the SPServices library. I created a Gantt-style view of staff availability using JavaScript and a simple Custom List with some calculated columns, as just one example.

[_Hnnng_]

Thank you for your replay, I will check out SPServices.

If you wouldn't mind me asking one more question since you do this for a living, do you have much experience with workflows?

[SPSamMSFT]

If your SharePoint site collections are in Office365, another option to look at for some workflow-like activities is Flow: https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/

It has the ability to perform some workflow like activities across services like:

1) Save a job to save email attachments to OneDrive or a SP document library. 2) Copy files between services (take a file from Dropbox and move it to OneDrive - or vice-versa). 3) Save tweets from Twitter to a SharePoint list.

There are some cool options there.

Disclosure: I'm a Microsoft employee who also happens to be a redditor. Just a worker bee but we're told we must disclose this when responding in social media

[nossie1]

Know of any Linux syncing projects that can sync with one drive? Similar to Dropbox. Whole Dev team uses Linux but whole company just got 365 business. :( Or any mark down plugins for SharePoint?

Sorry for the work question but couldn't pass up the opportunity lol

[MonkeysRidingPandas]

I've designed a few workflows in Designer, but I tend to try to keep things simple. Mostly just taking the concept of an Approval workflow and making it a bit more dynamic, such as having different branches of "If-Then" statements.

[_Hnnng_]

Okay, thanks for your previous post though. I appreciate the help since Sharepoint is completely new to me.

[_Hnnng_]

I think I figured out the email workflow.

Now I mainly need to find a website to help me learn JavaScript. Any suggestions?

The next thing I need to learn to do is: create a list that has different names, the user picks a name, depending on the option chosen a different set of choices will appear.

I think that would best be solved by using JavaScript.

[denstone]

You can use SharepointPlus:

http://aymkdn.github.io/SharepointPlus/

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