How to create an Enterprise custom field programmatically for Project Server

Question

Hello!

I want a Sharepoint 2013 app to create programmatically an Enterprise Custom Field when it runs for the first time.

I fiddled around with the following code snippet, but it's not working

var projContext = PS.ProjectContext.get_current();  
function AddCustomField() {
        $('#message').text('Adding Custom Field...'); 
        var object_to_add = new PS.CustomFieldCreationInformation();
        object_to_add.set_name("New_one");       
        object_to_add.set_description("test description");  
        projContext.CustomFieldCollection.add(object_to_add);
}

Any help would be appreciated!

Answer 1

 projContext.CustomFieldCollection.Update();
 projContext.ExecuteQuery();

Answer 2

Thank you for replying, but this wouldn't help : 

My code looks like this now : 

'use strict';

var projContext;
var resources;

// This code runs when the DOM is ready and creates a context object which is needed to use the SharePoint object model
$(document).ready(function () {
    projContext = PS.ProjectContext.get_current();
    projContext.set_isPageUrl(SP.ClientContext.get_current().get_isPageUrl());
    SP.SOD.executeFunc('sp.js', 'SP.ClientContext', AddCustomField); //when the page loads, we execute this method
});

function AddCustomField() {
    $('#message').text('Adding Custom Field...');
    var object_to_add = new PS.CustomFieldCreationInformation();
    //object_to_add.set_fieldType(CustomFieldType.Text)
    object_to_add.set_name("New_one");
    object_to_add.set_description("test description");
    projContext.CustomFieldCollection.add(object_to_add);
    projContext.CustomFieldCollection.Update();
    projContext.ExecuteQuery();
    $('#message2').text('Done');
    
}

Am I missing something?

Answer 3

I like this work on C#

CustomFieldCreationInformation customFieldCreationInformation = new CustomFieldCreationInformation();
            customFieldCreationInformation.Id = new Guid();
            customFieldCreationInformation.Name = nameField;
            customFieldCreationInformation.LookupTable = table;
            customFieldCreationInformation.FieldType = fieldType;
            customFieldCreationInformation.EntityType = entityType;
            _projectContext.CustomFields.Add(customFieldCreationInformation);

may need to set the values "Id", "EntityType", "FieldType"

Answer 4

Hi!

Since the PS javascript SDK is incredibly bad, and poorly documented, I have to come to you guys with my questions.

I want to programmatically create an Enterprise calendar using a Sharepoint 2013 app.

I have the following code which is called from the main function of the javascript file : 

function CreateCalendar() {
    var eCalColl = projContext.get_calendars(); //get calendar collection
    var ccinfo = new PS.CalendarCreationInformation();
    ccinfo.set_id(SP.Guid.newGuid());
    ccinfo.set_name("NewCalendar");
    ccinfo.set_originalId(SP.Guid.newGuid());
    eCalColl.add(ccinfo);
    eCalColl.update();
    projContext.executeQueryAsync(Function.createDelegate(this, function () {

        // Display the results and remove the progress msg
        alert("Calendar added successfully");

    }), Function.createDelegate(this, function (call, error) {
        alert("Error : " + error.get_message());
    }));
}

It executes the query, but has the following error message: 

CalendarInvalidUniqueIdToDuplicate

which, according to the error message list : Value=13038. The GUID is not valid to duplicate a calendar.

I don't want to duplicate anything, I set every field of the CalendarCreationInformation object accordingly, and it's still not working.

I even tried duplicating a calendar, but it's not working.

Answer 5

Thank you for the reply!

I understand the C# code, but I can't really translate it to javascript, since the functions have different names, and well, intellisense is not working for JSOM.

I have the following concerns : 

- How can I create a new GUID in javascript programmatically?

- After I add the nnew CustomFieldCreationInformation object to the custom field "collection", do I have to update, or run a query or what?

The documentation on this is so incredibly poor...

Answer 6

try http://stackoverflow.com/questions/105034/create-guid-uuid-in-javascript

update and run a query

Answer 7

Hi Lorant,

I merged your duplicated threads.

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Hope this helps,

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Guillaume Rouyre, MBA, MVP, P-Seller |