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 …
Category: #SPCSR
Jul 12
SharePoint Saturday London – Imperial College
I had the distinct pleasure of speaking at a much closer SharePoint Saturday to home than all of the others I’ve attended in the past. This was the turn of SharePoint Saturday London at the Imperial College in Kensington and although I’m good friends with both Seb and Peter who ran the event, that doesn’t …
Apr 19
SharePoint Saturday Belgium wrap-up
I’ve just woken up at home after another excellent SharePoint Saturday Belgium! The BIWUG guys always organise a great event and this one was no exception so thank you very much to them and good luck to the new Board members stepping up this year. Running a user group is hard work, but very rewarding …
Sep 30
SharePoint Saturday Jersey – Round up
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 …
Aug 10
Speaking at SharePoint Saturday Jersey–Sept 27th 2014
I received my acceptance e-mail this past week to say that my Display Templates with JSLink for ITPros sessions had been accepted for SharePoint Saturday Jersey in September. As with the other variations of this session, I’ll have some location specific demos to show off Display Templates in all their glory as well as some …
Jul 18
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. …
May 02
SharePoint 2013 List View Web Part Display Templates for Debugging
With the launch of #SPCSR and inspired by the ultimate search debug template by @Eliostuyf, I decided to bring one of my old display templates for debugging a little more up to date and include some nice SharePoint 2013 styling for a common look and feel. I’ve created two versions of the templates, Debug and DebugBrief. The …