Introduction

This article helps to retrieve the followed content from MySite using REST in SharePoint 2013. This is developed using the NAPA development tool.

Step 1

On your Developer Site, open the "Napa" Office 365 Development Tools and then choose Add New Project.

Step 2

Change the Permission as in the following:

Tenant = Write

User Profiles = Read



Step 3

Update the Default.aspx and App.js files.

Default ASPX



App.js

  1. 'use strict';
  2. var hostweburl;
  3. var appweburl;
  4. var followContentEndpoint;
  5. $(document).ready(function()
  6. {
  7. hostweburl = decodeURIComponent(getQueryStringParameter("SPHostUrl"));
  8. appweburl = decodeURIComponent(getQueryStringParameter("SPAppWebUrl"))
  10. followContentEndpoint = decodeURIComponent(appweburl) + "/_api/social.following";
  11. getMyFollowedContent();
  12. $.getScript(hostweburl + "/_layouts/15/SP.RequestExecutor.js");
  13. });
  14. function getQueryStringParameter(paramToRetrieve)
  15. {
  16. var params = document.URL.split("?")[1].split("&");
  17. for (var i = 0; i < params.length; i = i + 1)
  18. {
  19. var singleParam = params[i].split("=");
  20. if (singleParam[0] == paramToRetrieve) return singleParam[1];
  21. }
  22. }
  23. function getMyFollowedContent()
  24. {
  25. $.ajax({
  26. url: followContentEndpoint + "/my/followed(types=14)",
  27. headers: {
  28. "accept": "application/json;odata=verbose"
  29. },
  30. success: followedContentRetrieved,
  31. error: followContentErrorHandler
  32. });
  33. }
  34. function followedContentRetrieved(data)
  35. {
  36. var stringData = JSON.stringify(data);
  37. var jsonObject = JSON.parse(stringData);
  38. var types = {
  39. 1: "document",
  40. 2: "site",
  41. 3: "tag"
  42. };
  43. var followedActors = jsonObject.d.Followed.results;
  44. var followedList = "You're Following the below contents:";
  45. for (var i = 0; i < followedActors.length; i++) {
  46. var actor = followedActors[i];
  47. followedList += "<p>" + types[actor.ActorType] + ": \"" + actor.Name + "\"</p>";
  48. }
  49. $("#fldCntResult").html(followedList);
  50. }
  51. function followContentErrorHandler(data, errorcode, errormessage)
  52. {
  53. alert("Couldn't generate the Count" + errormessage);
  54. }

Step 4

Publish the solution and click the Trust It Button.



Output