Category: Javascript

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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MDS Enabled Sub-sites and Display Templates

Last year I released some of my templates for JSlink onto the SPCSR repository, but I was never totally happy with the solution for MDS (Minimal Download Strategy) enabled sites. Basically, in order to make sure that MDS recognises our scripts and doesn’t remove them when it’s processing the page refresh, we had to use …

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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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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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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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Using Fiddler to develop SharePoint 2013 Display Templates locally

One of the more powerful features of Fiddler is the ability to intercept a call to the server and replace the response with a response of its own. This becomes a very powerful tool especially when you have existing display templates that you wish to edit, without affecting the live service. This becomes especially handy …

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The demos are safe!

After tracing the source of my hardware failure at SharePoint Saturday UK, I found it wasn’t the SSD after all! (Chris O’Brien you’re forgiven!) As a result I’ve been able to recover all of the Display Template demos and scripts which are available for you to download here:- Display Templates for IT Pros – The …

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SharePoint Saturday UK Wrap Up

Saturday 9th of November saw what i believe was the 4th UK edition of SharePoint Saturday, very ably hosted by Brett,Mark and Tony once more. This year it took place at the Hinckley Island Hotel which I have to say I preferred over the first few years venue in Nottingham, not least because it was …

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I’m speaking at SharePoint Saturday UK 2013!

SharePoint Saturday UK – 9 November 2013 At the Hinckley Island Hotel (Click for More info here!) I’ve been a bit slack in posting this as we were all told we’d been accepted a few weeks ago and general registration is available now. However I’m delighted to have been invited back to present at SharePoint …

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