Category: CSR

Rendering People or Group fields in Custom JSLink Display Templates

When working with Display Templates in SharePoint 2013, you quite often want to provide a similar user experience within your templates to ensure that user adoption is achieved swiftly and simply. One of the key elements to this is to use the out of the box rendering methods where possible. One of the field types …

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My first article in print! – DIWUG Magazine 15

I’m really pleased to see the publication of my first print article in the latest edition of the DIWUG (Dutch Information Workers User Group) Magazine. Although produced in Holland by the DIWUG team, this excellent DIWUG Magazine carries articles by some great authors from around the world and has a readership in excess of 10000 …

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SharePoint Saturday Jersey – Round up

Radisson - St Helier: SharePoint Saturday jersey 2014

I had the great pleasure at speaking at the inaugural SharePoint Saturday Jersey in the channel islands this past weekend. Gus and Mark picked an excellent venue and whilst attendance was lower than expected thanks to the glorious weather, we still had a good bunch of SharePoint people with a thirst for knowledge! I was …

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JSLink Display Templates and External Data

One of the questions raised during my recent session at SUGUK Cambridge, was whether or not JSLink could be used to style External List Data. I certainly couldn’t see a reason why not as the External Data Column allows you to surface data within a standard SharePoint list, but I couldn’t be sure without testing. …

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Announcing #SPCSR – A community project

#SPCSR

it all started with a very innocent tweet and a picture of me working propped on my suitcase in a train waiting room on the way home from SharePoint Saturday Belgium. Marc Anderson quickly replied, giving voice to what a few of us have been contemplating for sometime… and others swiftly followed! And thus #SPCSR …

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Avoiding SharePoint Internal Name Pain

For the majority of users, the inner workings of SharePoint don’t hold much interest, but there is one aspect that you might find worthwhile to understand, especially if you are responsible for creating lists or libraries that yourself or others may want to customise later with XSLT, DisplayTemplates or even access using the Client Side …

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Issue displaying attachments in CSR JavaScript Display Templates

As I was preparing some of my new demos for my forthcoming talk at SharePoint Saturday Belgium at the end of April, I discovered a limitation in displaying attachments in CSR JavaScript Display Templates for list views that I thought I should probably raise here as there seems to be little information on the net …

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Display Templates Session video from SharePoint Saturday Stockholm is now up.

In all the fun of getting back to work after Las Vegas and SPC14, I forgot to post on here that Matthias Einig had finished processing the recording of my Display Templates Session video and all the others from SharePoint Saturday Stockholm in January. This YouTube link takes you to my session, and the other …

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