Why You Should Stop Using Custom Master Pages

http://thesharepointninja.azurewebsites.net/2015/07/26/why-you-should-stop-using-custom-master-pages/

Taxonomy Refinement Panel Web Part and faceted navigation now available in SharePoint Online for intranet scenarios

Over the last months we’ve taken many steps towards enabling search-driven publishing for intranet sites in SharePoint Online. We enabled the Content Search Web Part (CSWP), the cross-site publishing feature, and a new group cache that improves the performance of the CSWP.

Now we’ve enabled two features that previously were available only in SharePoint Server 2013—the Taxonomy Refinement Panel Web Part (TRPWP) and faceted navigation.

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SharePoint Online (Office 365) Development - Part 3

1. Open App.js in editor. Add two new variables at the top:

 var context = SP.ClientContext.get_current();  
 var user = context.get_web().get_currentUser();  
 var web = context.get_web();  
 var lists = web.get_lists();  

SharePoint Online (Office 365) Development - Part 2

If you have worked with JQuery before, the syntax will be familiar to you. When the app loads, getUserName() method is called. It loads user properties in the context object. onGetUserNameSuccess() method displays the user name on the screen. All you have to do is append “Hello World” after the user name.