Windows® 8.1 Apps with HTML5 and JavaScript Unleashed

Performing Custom Actions

By default, there are four standard scripts that you can execute in an Azure Mobile Service: delete.js, insert.js, read.js, and update.js scripts. However, you also have the option of creating a custom Mobile Service script.

Creating a custom script is useful when you need to do a more complicated database operation. For example, you might want to include a Nuke button in your Tasks app that enables you to delete all of your tasks. In that case, it would be great if you could create a nuke.js script that performs a SQL Truncate to delete all of the tasks from the Tasks table.

You can create a custom script from the Windows Azure Management Portal. Navigate to your Mobile Service at http://manage.WindowsAzure.com and ...