sp-dev-fx-webparts/samples/react-graph-cascading-managed-metadata

Cascading managed metadata using Graph API (beta)

Summary

This web part shows how to use the Microsoft Graph APIs (beta) for Taxonomy to get the data.

Functionality

Compatibility

Applies to

• SharePoint Framework Developer
• Office 365 developer tenant

Pre-requisites

• Set up the termset structure as shown in the image below - .
• To the termset, add a custom property called UsedForShowingMaps and set it's value to true as shown in the image below
• For the cities, get the required latitude and longitude.
• Add 2 custom properties for the city terms latitude and longitude (as highlighted for the term London in the image below).

Solution

Solution	Author(s)
react-graph-cascading-managed-metadata	Anoop Tatti (anoopt, (https://linktr.ee/anoopt)

Version history

Version	Date	Comments
1.0.0	Aug 24, 2020	Initial release
1.0.1	Sep 03, 2020	Error handling and logging improvements
2.0.0	Mar 04, 2022	Updated to SPFx 1.14, used term custom properties to get co-ordinates (as Graph API provides that capability now), usage of PropertyFieldGuid and several other improvements

Minimal Path to Awesome

• Clone this repository
• in the command line run:
  • npm install
  • gulp serve
• Make sure you have completed the pre-requisites
• Add the web part to the workbench page of a site
• Edit the web part and add the termset id in the properties

This sample can also be opened with VS Code Remote Development. Visit https://aka.ms/spfx-devcontainer for further instructions.

Features

This sample illustrates the following concepts on top of the SharePoint Framework:

• Get termset, terms and their custom properties using Microsoft Graph API (beta).
• React Hooks
• Using async / await for the async calls
• Caching the data in session storage
• Usage of PnP SPFx controls (Maps and Placeholder)
• Office UI fabric components

Enhancements

• Currently, this web part supports 2-level cascading. So there is scope to enhance this such that it supports more levels of cascading dynamically.

Video

Need to show more details?

An Adaptive Card Extension (ACE) which performs similar operations and provides more data like the local time of the office, weather data of the office location and address of the office location along with it's map can be found in the Office locations sample of pnp/sp-dev-fx-aces repostory.

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Disclaimer

THIS CODE IS PROVIDED AS IS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, MERCHANTABILITY, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.