How to render display template on a list view

This blog post is a bit more technical than my previous entries. Just recently, I was required to show two different views of a list on the same page (both styled with JS Display Templates). It’s relatively straight forward when you know how to quickly get the view GUID from the web part.

You may have seen in other posts that you can get the GUID of a view by going to the edit view page and grabbing it from the URL encoded string. However this doesn’t always work for web parts added to the page as they tend to get thier own unique “current view”.

There is a really easy and quick way of finding this GUID using an alert in your JavaScript Display Template. When you are working with the current list object, in my example below “ctx”, you can get the view GUID from this object by calling “ctx.view”. Wrap that up in an alert and the alerts will render from top to bottom on the page and display each web part view GUID.

alert(ctx.view);

Once you have the GUID, use another if statement in your code to set the base view id. Now your JavaScript only applies to that one view for the list.

if (ctx.view === "{07BC665B-0274-42D2-97BF-8EBEA8B72436}") {
	//Override the BaseViewID if it's the one we want.
	ctx.BaseViewID = 722;                
}