APPS FOR SHAREPOINT

DATA ACCESS OPTIONSACCESS EXTERNAL DATA FROM YOUR APP USING ANY OF THE VARIOUS DATA ACCESS OPTIONS

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David, web developer

Goal: To read small amounts of data from different sources

Wants to build a SharePoint-hosted app

JS/.NET client OMs

External data

WebProxy

Can read data from up to 20 different

domains, and each response can be up

to 200 KB

Use existing third-party libraries

to process and manipulate data

App

Mark, enterprise developer

Goal: To perform CRUD operations against an LOB application

Needs to sort and filter the data

REST External data

External content type

Easily expose data from the LOB application to

SharePoint using the OData protocol

Easily manipulate data using

standard REST query options

$filter and $orderby

App

Yvette, entrepreneurial developer

Goal: To query data from another service within her company

The external data is behind a firewall

JS/.NET client OMs

External data

Cross-domain library with

Custom proxy

Perform the requests at the client level, so

there’s no need to open ports on the

firewall

Can use current expertise in JavaScript

App

SCENARIOS

GET EXTERNAL DATA INTO YOUR APP

App ExternalData

REST APIs

JS/.NET client OMs

WebProxy

External Content Type

Cross-Domain Library

Custom Proxy