Let’s say we have a Search Results webpart showing latest 5 news with a wonderful Webpart title saying “News”. It would be pretty interesting that we can click on the webpart title and jump to a custom page that shows all the News article.

OK, SharePoint does a great job with Display templates, where you can control the chrome of all the results and each item, however the webpart title is not rendered directly by the Display template engine, so, if we want to modify the Webpart Title we’d need some jQuery magic from the Control display template.

We can use our custom Control Display template, and inside, we can select the Webpart title using jQuery. The selector we need looks like that:

That way, adding more jQuery we can replace the titleElement with all the html needed, like a link to the News page.

Hope it helps!

Luis Manez

@luismanez

Just arrived from the European SharePoint Conference 14 in Barcelona. This has been my first SP European event and if I have to summarized in one word, would be “amazing”. First I’ve been able to chat again with some of the Spanish SharePointers that I din´t see for a while, and second, cos I could meet in person, some of the European SP rock stars!

The organisation has been quite good, the quality of the speakers, really good, and the sessions quite good, although we expected more in some sessions, that didn’t´t include the last updates in their demos.

About the content, no new secrets, more on Office 365, more on Yammer, and more Apps, apps, apps. I´ve been pretty impressive that most of the demos were done using iPads, just highlighting the importance of the multi-device and mobile first for Microsoft.

Most of the speakers have available their presentations in their blogs, so, you can take a look to the sessions in the conference site, and look for their blogs.

I also found interesting that Microsoft is listening us. If you wanna say something about Office 365, this is the place: http://officespdev.uservoice.com/

Finally, just say thanks to my company, Content and Code, for let me attend the event, and last mention for my fellow Chris O’Brien, that was included, again, between the Top 25 European SharePoint Influencers. Congrats mate!!

Cheers.