From the course: SharePoint Advanced: Enhancing Functionality with JavaScript
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JSOM
From the course: SharePoint Advanced: Enhancing Functionality with JavaScript
JSOM
- [Instructor] The JavaScript Object Model or JSOM is part of the SharePoint client API family. Quick reality check, do ya'll know what API's are? That's actually kind of important, so let's take a sec to go over that. API is the acronym for application programming interface. API's are the software connectors that allow different applications to talk to each other. For instance, you know how you can use a person or group field in a SharePoint list and it'll find information on someone from Exchange. That's because there's an API that gets the request from SharePoint and conveys it over to Exchange, finds the record that fits the request parameters, and carries it back over to you in SharePoint. So JSOM is a collection of JaveScript files that are included with Sharepoint. These files are located in every site and they provide tools that let you do a multitude of different things, everything from reading lists to getting user profile information. To use JSOM you load the individual…
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