Introduction:
In this article you will see how to get all the views for a particular
list in SharePoint 2010 using ECMAScript. I have a list named
“List Requestâ€Â
which has the following views (Navigate to the SharePoint list. Click
on List tab in the ribbon interface. Click on List Settings button).
In this you will see how to get all the views for a list
“List Request†using ECMAScript.
Steps Involved:
1. 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).
2. Go to
Site Actions, click on
Edit Page.
3. Click on
Insert tab in the ribbon interface and then click on
Web Part button.
4. Select
Media and Content in the
Categories section and then click on
Content Editor.
5. Click on
Add.
6.
Content editor web part will be added to the site page.
7. Click on down arrow and then click on
Edit Web Part.
8. Click on
“Click here to add new contentâ€Â. 
9. Click
on Format Text tab in the ribbon interface and then click on
HTML drop down.
10. Click on
Edit HTML source.
11.
HTML source window will pop up.
12. Copy and paste the following script.
<script language="ecmascript" type="text/ecmascript">
var web = null;
var listCollection = null;
var list = null;
var viewCollection = null;
function getViews() {
var clientContext = new SP.ClientContext.get_current();
if (clientContext != undefined && clientContext != null) {
this.web = clientContext.get_web();
this.listCollection = web.get_lists();
this.list = listCollection.getByTitle("List Request");
this.viewCollection = list.get_views();
clientContext.load(this.viewCollection);
clientContext.executeQueryAsync(Function.createDelegate(this, this.onQuerySucceeded), Function.createDelegate(this, this.onQueryFailed));
}
}
function onQuerySucceeded() {
var viewName = 'Views: \n';
var viewsEnumerator = this.viewCollection.getEnumerator();
while (viewsEnumerator.moveNext()) {
var view = viewsEnumerator.get_current();
viewName += view.get_title() + '\n';
}
alert(viewName);
}
function onQueryFailed(sender, args) {
alert('Request failed. ' + args.get_message() + '\n' + args.get_stackTrace());
}</script>
<input id="btnGetViews" onclick="getViews()" type="button" value="Get All Views" />
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13. Click on Ok.
14. In the ribbon interface click on
Save & Close button.
15. In the content editor web part you could find a button named
“Get All Viewsâ€Â, click on that button.
16. Alert will pop up displaying all the views for the specified list as shown in the following.
Reference: SP.List.views Property - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee557520.aspx
Summary: Thus in this article you have seen how to get all the views for a particular list in SharePoint 2010 using ECMAScript.