Display template – Ben Prins

SharePoint Online: Custom Search Refiner Display Templates

October 10, 2018 Ben Prins Office 365

The Refinement Panel is a solid part of almost every classic search solution. In most cases we can configure the selected refiner perfectly by changing the settings, but not always. Fortunately we are also able to change the display template per selected refiner and create our own custom Refiner Display Templates. In this example I created a custom display template with the following customizations.

Removed the first two characters of the filter option.
Made the refinement panel wider.

More information about display templates in general can be found on MSDN Display Templates.

Create a custom Refinement display template

First we need to make a copy of the default refinement display template, the name of the display template is Filter_Default.

Navigate to the filter display templates: Master Page Gallery / Display Templates / Filters.
(http://your-site/_catalogs/masterpage/Display Templates/Filters)
Copy the HTML file Filter_Default and give it a new name for example: Filter_Custom.html
Remember not to copy the JS file, this will be created automatically.
Update the Title field of the display template.
Open Filter_Custom.html in your favorite editor.
Remove the code which is not needed.
- I removed rows 33-201 and 209-229
- Note that this might be different for you

Solution for removing characters

Find the following code.
```
<div id='Container'>
```
Find the following div located below the previous one.
```
<div id='Value' name='Item'>
```
Between these divs add the if statement that shortens the shown filter options.
Note that is does not remove the show all items feature.

In my example I remove the first 2 characters.

var refinementNameShorter=refinementName;

if(refinementName!="All")
{
    refinementNameShorter = refinementName.substring(2);
    refinementNameShorter = refinementNameShorter.substring(0, refinementNameShorter.indexOf("|"))
}

Solution for wider refinement panel

Find the following code.
```
<div id='Container'>
```
Inside this div is the following div located.
```
<div id='Value' name='Item'>
```

Change this into the following code.

<div id='Value' name='Item' style="width: 500px;">

Configure the refinement panel

Open the page with the refinement panel
Select by Display template the newly created Filter_Custom

Code result

Display Template custom footer

October 31, 2014 benjaminprins Office 365

The Control Template is responsible for the information that is shown in the footer. By default no footer will be displayed, we are able to change this to what ever HTML we want. But remember that we do not have any item related information in the control template. In this blog post I will explain how too create a footer. More information on display templates can be found on my blog post SharePoint 2013 custom display templates.

Solution

1. Edit the related Control Template.
2. Find the end tag of the main UL.

<ul class="cbs-List">
   _#= ctx.RenderGroups(ctx) =#_
</ul>

3. We can place the footer direct below the </ul> or after the noResults If statement, but within the main DIV.

<!--#_
if (ctx.ClientControl.get_shouldShowNoResultMessage())
{
_#-->
        <div class="_#= noResultsClassName =#_">_#= $noResults =#_</div>
<!--#_
}
_#-->

4. Add the required footer html, for example a URL to a info page.

<div>
   <a href="/info.aspx">More info</a>
</div>

5. Publish the control template.

Result

Display Template custom no results text

October 31, 2014 benjaminprins Office 365

The Control Template is responsible for the information that is shown when there are no results returned. Located in the control template is a JavaScript If statement that checks if there are no results returned. If there are no results then a default variable (noResults) will be displayed. We are able to change this to what ever HTML and text we want. In this blog post I will explain who to change this. More information on display templates can be found on my blog post SharePoint 2013 custom display templates.

Solution

1. Edit the related Control Template.
2. Find the if statement that checks if there are no results returned.

<!--#_
if (ctx.ClientControl.get_shouldShowNoResultMessage())
{
_#-->
        <div class="_#= noResultsClassName =#_">_#= $noResults =#_</div>
<!--#_
}
_#-->

3. Remove the default variable noResults and if needed remove the default class noResultsClassName

<!--#_
if (ctx.ClientControl.get_shouldShowNoResultMessage())
{
_#-->
        <div class=""> </div>
<!--#_
}
_#-->

4. Change the default text and if need add a new class for styling.

<!--#_
if (ctx.ClientControl.get_shouldShowNoResultMessage())
{
_#-->
        <div class="MyClass">This is a custom no results text!</div>
<!--#_
}
_#-->

5.Publish the Control Template

Result

Display Template Show Limits Characters

June 4, 2014 benjaminprins Office 365

Display templates are used to show the queried results in a attractive and useful layout. With the CQWP we used XSLT to format the data as required, but with display templates we need to use JavaScript. One of my most formatted field is the publishing page content field. In this blog post I will explain how you can limit the number of characters shown. In this post I also explain how to remove the HTML markup.

Solution publishing page content
1. Edit the related Item Template.
2. Add the PublishingPageContent to the ManagedPropertyMapping. For a clean example I removed all mappings besides Title and PublishingPageContent.

<mso:ManagedPropertyMapping msdt:dt="string">'Titel':'Title','PublishingPageContent':'PublishingPageContentOWSHTML'</mso:ManagedPropertyMapping>

3. Create a variable for the PublishingPageContent column.

var PublishingPageContentHTML = $getItemValue(ctx, "PublishingPageContent");

4. The PublishingPageContentHTML will contain the page content but with styling. The following code will remove the styling.

var div = document.createElement("div");
div.innerHTML= PublishingPageContentHTML;
var PublishingPageContentL = div.textContent|| div.innerText|| "";

5. In most situations we also want to show a maximum number of characters followed bu three dots. The following code will limit the amount of characters to 175 followed by the required dots. If the content is less then 175 characters long, no dots will be displayed.

var PublishingPageContent = "";
if (PublishingPageContentL.toString().length > 175) {
	PublishingPageContent = PublishingPageContentL.toString().substring(0,175) + "...";
}
else {
	PublishingPageContent = PublishingPageContentL;
}

6. Us the code below to display the PublishingPageContent.

<div>
   _#= $htmlEncode(PublishingPageContent ) =#_
</div>

Result

Remove HTML markup with display templates

June 3, 2014 benjaminprins Office 365

Display templates are used to show the queried results in a attractive and useful layout. With the CQWP we used XSLT to format the data as required, but with display templates we need to use JavaScript. One of my most formatted field is the publishing page content field. In this blog post I will explain how you can show the field without the formatting tags by using JavaScript.

<mso:ManagedPropertyMapping msdt:dt="string">'Titel':'Title','PublishingPageContent':'PublishingPageContentOWSHTML'</mso:ManagedPropertyMapping>

3. Create a variable for the PublishingPageContent column.

var PublishingPageContentHTML = $getItemValue(ctx, "PublishingPageContent");

4. The PublishingPageContentHTML will contain the page content but with styling. The following code will remove the styling.

var div = document.createElement("div");
div.innerHTML= PublishingPageContentHTML;
var PublishingPageContentL = div.textContent|| div.innerText|| "";

5. Us the code below to display the PublishingPageContent.

<div>
   _#= $htmlEncode(PublishingPageContent ) =#_
</div>

Result

Custom date formats with display templates

June 2, 2014 benjaminprins Office 365

Display templates are used to show the queried results in a attractive and useful layout. With the CQWP we used XSLT to format the data as required, but with display templates we need to use JavaScript. One of my most formatted field are the date fields. In this blog post I will explain how you can change the format of a date field by using JavaScript.

Solution date format
1. Edit the related Item Template.
2. Add the ArticleStartDate to the ManagedPropertyMapping. For a clean example I removed all mappings besides Title and ArticleStartDate in the code below.

<mso:ManagedPropertyMapping msdt:dt="string">'Titel':'Title','ArticleStartDate':'ArticleStartDateOWSDATE'</mso:ManagedPropertyMapping>

3. Create a variable for the ArticleStartDate column.

var ArticleStartDate = ctx.CurrentItem.ArticleStartDateOWSDATE;

4. To be able to format the date we need to create a new variable of the type Date.

var localArticleDate = new Date(ArticleStartDate);

5. Us the code below to display the ArticleStartDate with the required format.

<div>
   _#= localArticleDate.format("dd-MM-yyyy")
</div>

Result