In one of my last projects I ran into an interesting question regarding the taxonomy store. Will it be possible to get all taxonomy data by using pure JavaScript?
SharePoint has a great JavaScript object model for different purposes but how deep is this integration when an access to service applications like the Managed Metadata Service is required. The simple answer on this is: Not enough. Due the strict project plan we decided to use a Silverlight web part, which is capable to access the taxonomy store. This solution worked well but I wasn’t pleased by that.
Time passed by and the question left unanswered to me. At the SharePoint Conference I meet Mark D. Anderson the founder of SPServices. He told me that this Jquery library should be capable of accessing the Taxonomy Client Web Service. This was the last missing information that I needed to access the Taxonomy Store and this is my solution.[Read more]