How to Define a Custom Group Display Template (GroupTemplateId) for the Search Results WebPart via JavaScript

July 29, 2013

For my next blog post I needed to investigate how to use a custom Group Display Template for the Search Results WebPart. Unfortunately you can only set the Control Display Template and the Item Display Template in the Search Results WebPart properties. Show image Display Template Settings Search Results WebPart If you want to specify the group display template, you have two options:

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Applying JS Link on Task Lists Breaks the Default Rendering of the Checkboxes

July 22, 2013

A few days ago a clever reader of my blog has informed me about a problem with the Create a “% Complete” Progress Bar with JS Link in SharePoint 2013 solution. He told me that when you apply the JS Link JavaScript to the web part, the checkboxes task checkboxes are rendered as Yes / No values.

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Ajax Refresh Item Row(s) in a SharePoint 2013 View

July 19, 2013

When examining the JS Link problem that was described in my previous blog post, I found a nifty piece of code. The code allows you to do an Ajax refresh for a single item row or for the item rows in the current view. This piece of code comes in handy when you have a custom actions that does an item update and only want to update the current item or the list of items.

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Provision Image Renditions to your SharePoint 2013 Site

June 20, 2013

In SharePoint 2013 you have the functionality to create renditions for your images. This allows you to use the same image but with different dimensions in your design. Most of the information you find about this topic is most about using it for different devices, so that you can use a smaller version for a mobile device, and the default one for a desktop.

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Provision Your HTML Designs (Master Pages / Page Layouts) to SharePoint 2013

June 19, 2013

A couple of months ago I wrote some posts about provisioning design files in SharePoint 2013 (display templates, none html design files). One thing I did not described is how you can provision your HTML master page and page layout design files. Most of the research (read time) was already done when I was trying to find out the best way to provision display templates.

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SharePoint Saturday 2013 Belgium – Farewell XSL, Welcome Display Templates

April 30, 2013

SharePoint Saturday Belgium 2013 is over, so that means we need to wait a whole year for the next one. This was again a successful edition, and want to thank everyone for making this event possible, especially the Biwug organisation. Here are my slides from this years session: Biwug presenation-spsbe33 from estruyf

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