How to Copy/Move a SharePoint Page/File from one location to another using Javascript

Hi Friends,

In this blog we are going to see How to copy or move a sharepoint Page/File from one location to the other using Javascript.

By default SP.js in SharePoint provides the following functions through which we can perform this activity with the minimal coding effort.

SP.MoveCopyUtil.copyFile
SP.MoveCopyUtil.moveFile

Copy a Sharepoint File/Page:
In the below code snippet we are copying the home.aspx present in pages library to the Folder called "duplicate" under the same pages library.

In order to achieve it, we will be using the function SP.MoveCopyUtil.copyFile which expects the below parameters

1)Current context
2)Source url – Full url of the file/page.
3)Destination url – Full destination url of the file/Page.

Code snippet:
var current_context = SP.ClientContext.get_current();
SP.MoveCopyUtil.copyFile(current_context,"https://siteurl/pages/home.aspx","http://siteurl/Pages/duplicate/home.aspx");
current_context.executeQueryAsync(function(){ PageCopySuccess(); },function(){ PageCopyFailure(); });

function PageCopySuccess(){
alert('Success');
}

function PageCopyFailure(){
alert('Failed');
}


Move a Sharepoint File/Page:
In the below code snippet we are moving the home.aspx present in pages library to the sitepages page library.

In order to achieve it, we will be using the function SP.MoveCopyUtil.moveFile which expects the below parameters

1)Current context
2)Source url – Full url of the file/page.
3)Destination url – Full destination url of the file/Page.

Code snippet:
var current_context = SP.ClientContext.get_current();
SP.MoveCopyUtil.moveFile(current_context,"https://siteurl/pages/home.aspx","http://siteurl/sitepages/home.aspx");
current_context.executeQueryAsync(function(){ PageMoveSuccess(); },function(){ PageMoveFailure(); });

function PageMoveSuccess(){
alert('Success');
}

function PageMoveFailure(){
alert('Failed');
}

Hope this helps...

Structural Navigation vs Managed Navigation in SharePoint

Hi Friends,

In this post we are going to learn about the navigation options present in SharePoint Online.

Below are the two main out of the box navigation options in SharePoint
1) Structured Navigation
2) Managed Navigation

What is Structured Navigation?
This is SharePoint out of the box navigation used by default and it is based on the site structure we define for our portal.

Below are some of the advantages and disadvantages using Structured Navigation.

PROS	CONS
Navigation will be updated automatically whenever Sites are added. Easy to configure. Pages are automatically added. Security trimmed, so if a user doesn’t have access to a link it will not appear in the top navigation.	Slower performance with complex navigation structure having more than 10 levels. URLs are not friendly and can be hard to memorize. Homepages belonging to structured navigation links do not appear in search when you type a search term. Cannot tag a structured navigation link to a document that it may relate to.

What is a Managed Metadata Navigation?

Managed Metadata is a hierarchical collection of centrally managed terms that we can define, and then use as attributes. It uses a dedicated term set for site navigation and the terms correspond to the friendly URL segment created.

Below are some of the advantages and disadvantages using Managed Navigation

PROS	CONS
Easy to maintain. Significantly faster page loads. Pages with term show up in search results. Documents tagged with navigation term show up in search results along with homepage of term. Friendly URLs that are easy to remember. Easy to maintain with more options to target search. Pages are automatically added.	Not security trimmed, so if a user doesn’t have access to a link in the top navigation they will still see it but can’t get to it. Sites are not automatically added. Cannot be used across site collections.

Hope this helps...

How to create thumbnail/preview of any document or Image or Video in SharePoint

Hi Friends,

In this post, we are going to learn how to generate a thumbnail/preview of any Document or Video or Image in SharePoint.

Recently I came across a requirement to show some document links on a page but the links should be the thumbnail of the document instead of a plain text(document title). Please find the below approach I followed to achieve this.

getpreview.ashx is a http handler used to generate thumbnail/preview of any document(word,pdf, ppt etc.,), Image and Video which resides in SharePoint.

If you observe in SharePoint search results, when we mouse over on the search results we get a preview of that item. This is actually happening through http handler getpreview.ashx

This handler expects a parameter called “path” which expects absolute path of the doc/image/video. Please find the below sample URLs to generate the thumbnail.

Image:

https://yoursite.com/_layouts/15/getpreview.ashx?path=https://yoursite.com/PublishingImages/abcd.jpg

Document:

https://yoursite.com/_layouts/15/getpreview.ashx?path=https://yoursite.com/PublishingImages/Document/abcd.doc

Video:

https://yoursite.com/_layouts/15/getpreview.ashx?path=https://yoursite.com/PublishingImages/videos/abcd.mp4

This handler has also expects a parameter called “resolution” which has a predefined values 1, 2, 3 etc., for different resolutions of previews/Thumbnails. Please find the below sample URLs with different resolutions

https://yoursite.com/_layouts/15/getpreview.ashx?resolution=1&path=https://yoursite.com/PublishingImages/abcd.jpg

https://yoursite.com/_layouts/15/getpreview.ashx?resolution=2&path=https://yoursite.com/PublishingImages/abcd.jpg

Hope this helps…

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