How to query SP2013 Managed metadata term store with JSOM
This post will show how to read the Taxonomy Term Store with JSOM. Taxonomy Term store can be accessed in a SharePoint App, with permission scope of Taxonomy. To be able to use the JSOM API for Taxonomy you need to reference SP.Taxonomy.js found in _layouts/15/ the best way to reference this would be in the document ready. $(document).ready(function () { var scripRef = _spPageContextInfo.webServerRelativeUrl + "/_layouts/15/"; $.getScript(scripRef+ "SP.Runtime.js", function () { $.getScript(scripRef+ "SP.js", function () { $.getScript(scripRef+ "SP.Taxonomy.js", function () { context = SP.ClientContext.get_current(); //Call your code here. getTermStores(); });});});}) Read from Taxonomy function getTermStores() { session = SP.Taxonomy.TaxonomySession.getTaxonomySession(context); termStores = session.get_termStores(); context.load(session); context.load(termStores); context.execute...