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Pros and Cons of adding a new List to a Tenant
Our technical engineer wrote this question:
What would be the best development scenario for:
User: Office365 user with Site Collection admin right, but no Powershell or other skills.
Scenario: User creates a new SharePoint list with a Wizard
The Wizard:
- Asks for localized Fieldnames & Descriptions
- Asks which CSR transformations need to be applied
- Creates a new CSR file in the Style Library
- Creates a Site UserCustomAction ScriptLink
Possible development technologies:
- App
- can't create ScriptLink?
- still lot of REST or JSOM coding
- PnP
- We don't know enough about this yet
- Uses XML files from a back-end?
- Can not be triggered from the Browser side?
- PnP Core Javascript
- Is only a wrapper around REST,
- need to write all List, Field provisioning code ourselves
- JSOM coding
- unknown if it is supported in the New SharePoint version
Our team skills: jQuery, SPServices, JSOM, Angular 1
We are looking for a solution that takes away a lot of custom REST/JSOM coding.
Thank you,
Rosa Daniels
Projectmanager
Creating a wizard that creates a list based on your requirements and wizard input and then attaching a JSLink to that list/content type, as well as adding a custom action, is achievable using an App with REST and/or JSOM, or you could do it with the PnP server side or client side library or the PnP PoSh.
It's all about your requirements, and your skill set. And from what I can see creating an Angular app and use REST would be a really smooth option for you.
I know the guys from SPMETA2 are working on a javascript version of their solution which probably comes really close to what you are looking for. For now it's C# only.
I don't know how far along they are at the moment, by you can get in touch with via their Yammer on http://docs.subpointsolutions.com/spmeta2/
