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

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.

The following code does a single row Ajax refresh, and can be used on the Query Succeeded callback:

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function onQuerySucceeded () {
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  // Set Ajax refresh context
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  var evtAjax = {
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    currentCtx: ctx,
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    csrAjaxRefresh: true
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  };
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  // If set to false all list items will refresh
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  ctx.skipNextAnimation = true;
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  // Initiate Ajax Refresh on the list
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  AJAXRefreshView(evtAjax, SP.UI.DialogResult.OK);
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}

As you can see it isn’t that hard, the only thing that changes if you want to refresh all the items is the ctx.skipNextAnimation property. This needs to be set to false or you can leave it out of the code.

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function onQuerySucceeded () {
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  // Set Ajax refresh context
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  var evtAjax = {
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    currentCtx: ctx,
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    csrAjaxRefresh: true
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  };
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  // Initiate Ajax Refresh on the list
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  AJAXRefreshView(evtAjax, SP.UI.DialogResult.OK);
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}

Here is a screencast to show you the functionality. The code behind it is just a simple value update of an item field.