Pros and Cons of adding a new List to a Tenant

[Rosa Daniels]

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:

1. App
   • can't create ScriptLink?
   • still lot of REST or JSOM coding
2. PnP
   • We don't know enough about this yet
   • Uses XML files from a back-end?
   • Can not be triggered from the Browser side?
3. PnP Core Javascript
   • Is only a wrapper around REST,
   • need to write all List, Field provisioning code ourselves
4. JSOM coding
   1. 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

[#2]

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.

[#3]

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/ 

Docs: http://docs.subpointsolutions.com/spmeta2/

Github: https://github.com/SubPointSolutions/spmeta2