Archive for April 2014

Ultimate diagnostic display template

April 28, 2014

For my SharePoint Saturday Belgium 2014 session: “Sorry, something went wrong. How to start debugging your Display Templates”, I created the ultimate diagnostic display template. With this display template you’re able to retrieve all the available properties for your result. Show image Content Search Web Part Configuration When you configure the Content Search Web Part as shown above, it will output the property name, type and its corresponding value for the current result.

Automatically update / refresh results in display templates

April 11, 2014

During the creation process of a demo for my SharePoint Saturday Belgium session this year, I suddenly came up with the idea to automatically update or refresh results of a Content Search Web Part. This could be useful when you have dashboard pages and you want to keep showing the latest items retrieved from search.

Document set view not visible in SharePoint 2013

April 10, 2014

Some time ago I wrote a post about the missing Apps you can add zone (Missing the Apps you can add Zone When Adding a New App). The problem with it was that this zone becomes available once a particular element is found on the page. The element was placed on the page via the PlaceHolderPageTitleInTitleArea content placeholder.