Question

I am using SPServices to do autocomplete and can pull from different lists. The one list I cannot find however is the “Tag” or “Tags” list. Does anyone know where it is so I can query directly from it? Thank you and let me know if this is confusing so I can elaborate.

Im new at SharePoint coming from much lighter web dev so please dont be afraid to tell me I dont know what I am talking about too. Thanks.

Answer 1

Using the “U2U CAML Query Builder”, it looks like there is the TaxonomyHiddenList which can be queried against. It is hidden so I am assuming you need “owner” rights but it works for me.

<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready (function() {

    $().SPServices({
        operation: "GetListItems",
        async: true,
        listName: "TaxonomyHiddenList",
        CAMLViewFields: "<ViewFields>" +
            "<FieldRef Name='Title' />" +
            "</ViewFields>",
        completefunc: AttachAutoComplete
    });
});

function AttachAutoComplete(xmlResponse) {
    var domElementArray = $( "[nodeName=z:row]", xmlResponse.responseXML );

    var dataMap = domElementArray.map(function() {
        return {
            value: $(this).attr('ows_Title')
        };
    });

    var data = dataMap.get();

    $("input#inputAutoComplete").autocomplete({
        source: data,
        select: function(e, ui){
            alert(ui.item['value']);
        }
    });
}
</script>