1. APPS FOR SHAREPOINT
DATA ACCESS OPTIONS
ACCESS EXTERNAL DATA FROM YOUR APP USING ANY OF THE VARIOUS DATA ACCESS OPTIONS
GET EXTERNAL DATA INTO YOUR APP
Web
Proxy
JS/.NET
client OMs
External
Content Type
App
External
Data
Cross-Domain
Library
Custom
Proxy
REST APIs
SCENARIOS
App
Can read data from
up to 20 different
domains, and each
response can be up
to 200 KB
David, web developer
Goal: To read small amounts of data
from different sources
Wants to build a SharePoint-hosted app
App
Mark, enterprise developer
Needs to sort and filter the data
App
Goal: To query data from another
service within her company
The external data is behind a firewall
http://dev.office.com
External
content type
Easily expose data
from the LOB
application to
SharePoint using
the OData protocol
Goal: To perform CRUD operations
against an LOB application
Yvette, entrepreneurial developer
Web
Proxy
Cross-domain
library with
Custom proxy
Perform the
requests at the
client level, so
there’s no need to
open ports on the
firewall
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JS/.NET
client OMs
External
data
Use existing
third-party libraries
to process and
manipulate data
REST
External
data
Easily manipulate
data using
standard REST
query options
$filter and
$orderby
JS/.NET
client OMs
Can use current
expertise in
JavaScript
External
data