SharePoint 2013 App Testing – First Steps

There is a reason why we can’t use a Sandboxed Solution for our Enhanced Records Management as unfortunately they are not supported in SharePoint Records Centers, we have checked in 2010 and 2013 and it appears to be a long standing bug see https://simpleinnovationassociates.wordpress.com/2013/03/28/sandboxed-solutions-and-sharepointrecords-centres/.

So our Office 365 offering will be a SharePoint App but how do we know even that will work in a SharePoint 2013 Records Center?

In this case we need to establish what is the minimum required for success.  We need to remove anything that will cloud the issue, and in this case that’s any functionality.

A site administrator must be able to install a SharePoint 2013 Application into a SharePoint Site built with the Records Center (OFFILE#1) Site Template.

We don’t care what the SharePoint Application does we just need to know that it will install without error.

So what we need is the simplest possible SharePoint Application, in the simplest possible environment.

A good primer for this can be found in http://www.amazon.co.uk/Microsoft%C2%AE-SharePoint%C2%AE-2013-Development-ebook/dp/B00B8D47F2 and using this we can write a simple SharePoint 2013 Application and deploy it internally via our own application store.

This should be a suitable task for someone to undertake tomorrow.

 

Cheers

Sebastian