For one of my clients I investigated the possibility to include result filtering or refinement into a display template for the Content Search Web Part. The reason to include this filtering functionality into a display template is to make it easier to fit into the corporate design. Another reason is to minimum the amount of display templates that get loaded
One of the interesting things about display templates is that you can add managed property mappings that can be managed in the SharePoint UI. This allows users to define which properties they want to use in their templates. Show image
A question that has been asked to me a couple of times is if it would be possible to add some settings to the Content by Search Web Part which can be leveraged inside the display templates. This could be handy when you want to develop display templates for which you want to be able to change the rendering based
A lot of users want to get an overview of the latest items of a list or library. Some users want to include a link to the list or library from which the items were retrieved. As this link from the search results location may vary, you should not hard code the link back to the item or control template. Solution The
When you are using the Content Search Web Part, you have by default a control template list with paging available. Now this template only shows left and right buttons to navigate to the next or previous page: Show image
In the previous blog post I showed you how to create a result block with Office Graph suggestions. This was all done by three display templates. In this blog post I will describe in more detail what each of these templates does, and how I achieved it. Note: here is a link to the previous post: Creating a result block that
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