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Those who starts working on Apps might face issues to read host site list items. In sharepoint hosted APP using Rest API we able to query host site list items. The rest url to get host site is almost similar to get list items but we need to specify the app context and target. Make sure JQuery loaded before to execute the code in app web parts. 'use strict'; var HostUrl=""; var AppUrl==""; // load function // Intialize HostUrl, AppUrl from query strings. // call get items method $(document).ready(function () {         HostUrl= GetQueryString("SPHostUrl");        // Get Host Url from query string         AppUrl= GetQueryString("SPAppWebUrl");        // Get App Url from query string getItems("DemoList");                   ...

Some times you need to get user name from people picker for sending mails, comparing to other fields , displaying some where. Below is the few tricks that are useful to get name, and other user properties from picker. Below is the simplest way to get user name from picker. $('div[title=PeoplePickerDivTitle] span span span').text() And the below is the use full to get people picker properties email, user id ..etc var userdetails = JSON.parse($('input[ID^=PeoplePickerDivStartID][ID$=HiddenInput]').val()) if(userdetails[0]){       var displayname = userdetails[0].DisplayText Var email = userdetails[0].EntityData['Email'] } above script parse the people picker hidden input data which contains user values into JSON, and will get all user properties that exists in people picker control.

There were several JavaScript  techniques to get query strings from URL, following are the few techniques are inbuilt in SharePoint. The main aim of this article is to use inbuilt SharePoint script techniques and to get rid of writing own JavaScript logic on every time. 1.    GetUrlKeyValue GetUrlKeyValue is an inbuilt JavaScript method exists in every page, you required to pass parameter to get the query string. You get query sting from a current url or from any url that passed as parameter to the method. It accepts a string as query string, bool for encoded value and a custom url. var itemID =  GetUrlKeyValue('ID'); var itemSourc =  GetUrlKeyValue('Source'); var enSournce = GetUrlKeyValue('Source',true);                // encoded result var enSournce = GetUrlKeyValue('Source',false);                // decoded result var cId = GetUrlKeyValue('ID',false...

Hi SharePoint buddies & lovers, after long I started to post SharePoint topics those comes my way and quite interesting ones. SharePoint developers sometimes may need to hide and show form controls in list forms. As per business rules you need to hide certain fields in new, edit, or display forms or conditionals [select country -> show states]. Here is the simple solution to hide fields using basic jQuery to catch location of the field names. We are all know that list form controls are enclosed with table row and each control and it’s field name enclosed in a table cells. New & Edit Forms In new and edit forms field names are enclosed with <nobr> tag, nearest tr of <nobr> tag represents the whole row of field. (document).ready(function() { $('nobr:contains("Location")').closest('tr').hide(); }); Display Forms In display form field names are enclosed with table cells, parent of table cell represents the whole row of ...

               after a crazy long I came to post these article and I promise to keep posting on my lovely SharePoint and now I completely shifted to 2013.                         Within the links in global navigation Page not found- appears when editing links but this is hidden by default. This occupies space when your navigation has fixed width you got real trouble.                 To disappear Page not found- you simply on check "Show Pages" in navigation settings, but deselect "Show Pages" has causes to no new pages are not added to navigation by default and also it removes all pages links those are added by default in navigation. So keep in mind and look all navigational links before going to deselect these option. 

  We might go through a situation where “Save as site template” option is missing. When I opened Site Actions > Site Settings > The following option was missing. Solution Activate the feature Publishing feature will make the back. Alternative Solution We can also type the Page URL to get the Save as template page. http://server/_layouts/savetmpl.aspx  

Modal Dialogs in SharePoint 2010 use the client library SP.UI.ModalDialog and ShowPopupDialog. We can open Dialog without leaving the page by writing simple html markup and by calling some SP.UI.ModalDialog API’s. Most simplest and an easy way to create SharePoint Modal Dialog is, calling JavaScript function and pass only URL parameter. <a href=”javascript:SP.UI.ModalDialog.ShowPopupDialog(‘/_layouts/viewlsts.aspx?isDlg=1′);” > View All Contents < /a> isDlg=1 Optional You can simply add “&IsDlg=1″ to any SharePoint URL and the chrome will be turned off. There are some parameters specially setting the width and the height of the window and a null parameter for call back function. which for now is set to null. We can create Dialog with specified hight and width like, < a href=”javascript:SP.UI.ModalDialog.ShowPopupDialog(‘/_layouts/viewlsts.aspx?isDlg=1′, null, 500, 300);” > View All Contents...