Pro SharePoint 2013 App Development

CHAPTER 13

Enhancing Apps with SharePoint Services

SharePoint 2013 provides services that apps can use to better integrate with the rest of the platform. In this chapter we will explore three of these services and how we can leverage them in our apps. In this chapter, we will go over the following points:

• We will describe the managed metadata service and the client-side APIs available for querying and updating a site’s taxonomy structure.
• We will look at how to record error information to SharePoint in such a way that administrators can use it to diagnose problems with an app.
• We will examine how to add licensing capabilities to our apps so ...