Introduction
_spPageContextInfo variable provides few properties which will be useful in JavaScript and client object model code.
_spPageContextInfo is a JavaScript/jquery context variable, which will rendered for each SharePoint page. _spPageContextInfo holds few proprieties which will be useful in JavaScript/jquery and client object model code. If you want to know the properties of _spPageContextInfo, go to view page source and find text with "_spPageContextInfo".
When It will be useful
When we are making any ajax calls, we might need the server URL dynamically. In this case we can use _spPageContextInfo.siteAbsoluteUrl property.
If you want to know the current SharePoint List GUID, use _spPageContextInfo.pageListId.
Even it has more properties also(which are self explanatory). We can use them according to the requirements.
Sample Code
- $.ajax({
- beforeSend: function (request) {
- request.setRequestHeader("Accept", "application/json;odata=verbose;charset=utf-8");
- },
- url: _spPageContextInfo.siteAbsoluteUrl +"/_api/search/query?querytext='" + request.term + "*'&sourceid='b09a7990-05ea-4af9-81ef-edfab16c4e31'&rowlimit='20'&selectproperties='FirstName,AccountName,PictureURL,SipAddress,PreferredName,Country,City'",
- dataType: "json",
- success: function (data) {
- response($.map(data.d.query.PrimaryQueryResult.RelevantResults.Table.Rows.results, function (item) {
- return {
- fields: getFields(item.Cells.results)
- }
- }));
- },
- error: function (data) {
- alert('search error');
- }
- });
- _spPageContextInfo Object Properties found for SharePoint 2013 application:
- alertsEnabled: false
- allowSilverlightPrompt :"True"
- clientServerTimeDelta :-8980
- crossDomainPhotosEnabled: false
- currentCultureName: "en-US"
- currentLanguage: 1033
- currentUICultureName: "en-US"
- layoutsUrl: "_layouts/15"
- pageListId: "{df5e2d45-ad0b-4608-a813-ded6a97511db}"
- pagePersonalizationScope: 1
- serverRequestPath: "/sites/ SharepointSite /Lists/ custom/ custom.aspx"
- siteAbsoluteUrl: "http://svr:2525/sites/ SharepointSite "
- siteClientTag: "0$$15.0.4433.1506
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15.0.4433.1506" - siteServerRelativeUrl; "/sites/ SharepointSite "
- systemUserKey: "i:0).w|s-1-5-21-2086049...90378103-3194450012-500"
- tenantAppVersion: "0"
- userId: 1
- webAbsoluteUrl: "http:// svr:2525/sites /sites/SharepointSite"
- webLanguage: 1033
- webLogoUrl:"_layouts/15/images/siteicon.png"
- webPermMasks: Object { High=2147483647, Low=4294967295}
- webServerRelativeUrl: "/sites/ SharepointSite "
- webTemplate: "1"
- webTitle : " SharepointSite "