SPServices Helper Function: Resolve the Guid of a View

If you’re using the excellent SPServices library to wrap up access to the SharePoint web services from JavaScript, good stuff!
If, like me, you want to query a View on a given list you’ll need to pass the Guid of the view as the viewName parameter. Using the display name will give you the error: Parameter viewName is missing or invalid. 0x82000001

To resolve this you’ll need to call the GetViewCollection method for a given list and then parse the result to find your Guid. I’m a total newbie to jQuery and client side scripting so I found this a little tricky to get right, but I got there. So, here’s a helper for you use:

function ResolveListGuidFromName(webUrl, listName, viewName){
	var guid;
	var filter = "View[DisplayName='"+ viewName +"']";
	$().SPServices({
	    operation: "GetViewCollection",
	    async: false,
	    webURL: webUrl,
	    listName: "Votes",
	    completefunc:function (xData, Status) {
			guid = $(xData.responseXML).find(filter).attr("Name");
		}
	});
	return guid;
}

Not too bad for my first hack at this stuff.

9 Responses to SPServices Helper Function: Resolve the Guid of a View

Jernej says:

October 5, 2011 at 12:30 am

It doesn’t work can you help me?

$(“document”).ready(function() {

function GetViewId(webUrl,listName,viewName) {
var id = “”;
var filter = “View[DisplayName=”+ viewName +”]”;
$().SPServices({
operation: “GetView”,
listName: listName,
viewName: viewName,
webUrl: webUrl,
async: false,
completefunc: function (xData, Status) {
id = $(xData.responseXML).find(“filter”).attr(“Name”);
}
});
return id;
}

var viewid = GetViewId(“/senat/1konstitutivnaseja/Lists/Vsebina dnevnega reda/a.aspx”,”Vsebina dnevnega reda”,”a”);
if(viewid!=null)
{
$(“#viewid”).append(viewid);
}
else
{
$(“#viewid”).append(“list not found”);
}

});

View guid:
that is my code, but my result is allways list not found!

- gavinbarron says:
  
  October 5, 2011 at 9:04 am
  
  At fist glance the problem appear to be that you are using the GetView call, if you look at my mechanism I use the GetVewCollection call and then find a match in the returned result.
  From memory I went for GetViewCollection as the call to GetView expects the Guid supplied as the viewName parameter.
  Yup, looking at the MSDN docs, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/views.views.getview(v=office.12).aspx viewName is infact expecting the Guid.
  
  - Jernej says:
    
    October 6, 2011 at 9:14 pm
    
    i’ll try with GetVewCollection but is still the same story :(.,what about webUrl?is there something wrong?
    
    Thnak you very much,
    i appreciated!
  - gavinbarron says:
    
    October 7, 2011 at 6:44 am
    
    yeah, try using the full Url, http://mywebapp/relativesiteUrl and drop the end bit that you have which is the path to the view page of your list.
Jernej says:

October 6, 2011 at 10:07 pm

“I have tried with GetViewCollection”* mistake

Mike Jones says:

July 23, 2014 at 7:03 pm

Exactly what i needed. Thanks!

Chintan says:

March 6, 2017 at 9:43 pm

Is there a way to get specific view using SPService?

- gavinbarron says:
  
  March 7, 2017 at 8:04 am
  
  I’m not exactly sure what you’re asking here, are you looking to load the data from a given list view or load the given view object? What are you using to identify the view, its GUID or it’s name?
  
charlesasmith72 says:

April 13, 2017 at 10:03 pm

$().SPServices({
operation: “GetViewCollection”,
async: false,
webURL: webUrl,
listName: listName,
completefunc:function (xData, Status) {
if(Status == ‘success’){
$(xData.responseXML).find(‘View’).each(function() {
$.each(this.attributes, function(i, attrib){
var name = attrib.name;
var value = attrib.value;
// do your magic 🙂
console.log(attrib.name +” = “+attrib.value)
});
});

}

}
});