Debugging Display Templates in SharePoint 2013 Search
January 25, 2013 4 Comments
One may find difficult to extend existing Display Templates in SharePoint 2013 because of missing IntelliSense and type ahead suggestions of available members in ctx.* and ctx.CurrentItem.*
As a workaround you can use following trick using Google Chrome .
Firstly, modify one of display templates and put debugger; line.
Then upload it back and open target page, open Developer Tools (CTRL+SHIFT+I) and refresh. Your screen should look similar to the picture below, debugger will stop at your breakpoint.
Finally, switch to Console tab and take advantage of “IntelliSense” which will auto suggest you names of all available variables.
Execution of ctx.CurrentItem command will print you values of variables as well.
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Thanks, it feels like crawling but better then nothing. Hope Microsoft gives us a proper editor with intellisense soon.
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