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Writer's pictureVijai Anand Ramalingam

Get the Major and Minor Version of the File in SharePoint 2010 Using ECMAScript

Updated: Mar 18, 2019

In this article you will see how to get the major and minor version of the file in SharePoint 2010 using ECMAScript.

Introduction

In this article you will see how to get the major and minor version of the file in SharePoint 2010 using ECMAScript. I have a document library named "Shared Documents" which has the following document.

I am going to get the major and minor version of the file.

Steps Involved

  • Navigate to the SharePoint site (I have a site page created in my site where I am going to add the content editor web part).

  • Go to Site Actions, click on Edit Page.





  • Click on the Insert tab in the ribbon interface and then click on Web Part button.






  • Select Media and Content in the Categories section and then click on Content Editor.










  • Click on Add.The Content Editor web part will be added to the site page.

  • Click on the down arrow and then click on Edit Web Part.









  • Click on "Click here to add new content".




  • Click on the Format Text tab in the ribbon interface and then click on HTML drop down.


  • Click on Edit HTML source.The HTML source window will pop up.











  • Copy and paste the following script.

<script language="ecmascript" type="text/ecmascript">

var item; var list; var file;

function fileMajorandMinorVersion() { var clientContext = SP.ClientContext.get_current(); if (clientContext != undefined && clientContext != null) { var webSite = clientContext.get_web(); this.list = webSite.get_lists().getByTitle("Shared Documents"); this.item = list.getItemById(16); this.file = this.item.get_file();

 clientContext.load(this.file);  clientContext.executeQueryAsync(Function.createDelegate(this,this.OnLoadSuccess), Function.createDelegate(this, this.OnLoadFailed)); } }

function OnLoadSuccess(sender, args) { var version = "Major Version: " + this.file.get_majorVersion() + '\n' + "Minor Version: " + this.file.get_minorVersion();

alert(version) }

function OnLoadFailed(sender, args) { alert('Request failed. ' + args.get_message() + '\n' + args.get_stackTrace()); }</script> <input id="btnFileMajorandMinorVersion" onclick="fileMajorandMinorVersion()"type="button" value="File Major and Minor Version"/>

  • Click on Ok.

  • In the ribbon interface click on Save & Close button.











  • In the content editor web part you can find a button named "File Major and Minor Version", click on that button.




  • An alert will pop up which displays the following.











Reference


Summary

Thus in this article you have seen how to get the major and minor version of the file in SharePoint 2010 using ECMAScript.

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