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page_type: sample
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products:
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- office-sp
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languages:
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- javascript
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- typescript
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extensions:
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contentType: samples
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technologies:
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- SharePoint Framework
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platforms:
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- react
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createdDate: 8/1/2017 12:00:00 AM
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---
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# Content Query Web Part (Compatible with On-Premises SharePoint versions)
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## Summary
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> NOTE: This web part was built with an earlier version of SPFx which is compatible with on-premises versions of SharePoint. If you wish, you can use the [newer version of this web part](../react-content-query-online/README.md) which is compatible with SharePoint Online only.
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The `React Content Query Web Part` is a modern version of the good old `Content by Query Web Part` that was introduced in SharePoint 2007. Built for *SharePoint 2016* and *Office 365*, this modern version is built against the new **SharePoint Framework (SPFx)** and uses the latest *Web Stack* practices. While the original Web Part was based on a `XSLT` templating engine, this *React* Web Part is based on the well known [Handlebars templating engine](http://handlebarsjs.com), which empowers users to create simple, yet powerful `HTML` templates for rendering the queried content. This new version also lets the user query `any site collections` which resides on the same domain url, add `unlimited filters`, query *DateTime* fields to the `nearest minute` rather than being limited to a day, and much more.
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<img src="Misc/toolpart.gif" />
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## Used SharePoint Framework Version
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## Applies to
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* [SharePoint Framework Developer](https://docs.microsoft.com/sharepoint/dev/spfx/sharepoint-framework-overview)
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* [Office 365 developer tenant](https://docs.microsoft.com/sharepoint/dev/spfx/set-up-your-developer-tenant)
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## Solution
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Solution|Authors
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--------|-----------
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react-content-query-webpart|Simon-Pierre Plante
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## Version history
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Version|Date|Comments
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1.0.0|May 04, 2017|Initial release
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1.0.1|July 23rd 15, 2017|Updated to GA Version
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1.0.3|August 12, 2017|Added external scripts functionality
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1.0.4|August 31, 2017|Fixed a bug where tenant sites/subsites were missing from the **Web Url** dropdown
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1.0.5|September 1st, 2017|Added a **Site Url** parameter next to the **Web Url** parameter in order to narrow down the results
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1.0.6|September 19, 2017|Upgraded to SharePoint drop 1.2.0 and added the site url and web url pre-selection when adding the web part for the first time on a page. Also fixed a bug with fields that had spaces in their internal names (automatically replaced with `_x0020_` by SharePoint).
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1.0.7|November 17, 2017|Reverted to drop 1.1.0 in order to keep compatibility for SP2016 on-premise
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1.0.8|March 17, 2018|Updated to store the selected list using its ID instead of its title, so the web part keeps working if the list title gets updated.
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1.0.9|March 28, 2018|Added a switch to enable the web part to apply it's query recursively within folders, and fixed a bug where webs could sometimes not appear under the web url dropdown
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1.0.10|April 5, 2018|Fixed a bug where the webs of the selected site collection were not being loaded correctly for particular tenants
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1.0.11|May 22, 2018|Fixed a bug causing filters to loose their sort order in IE
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## Disclaimer
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**THIS CODE IS PROVIDED *AS IS* WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, MERCHANTABILITY, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.**
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## Features
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### Cross site collection
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The web part uses the search in order to get all sites under the current domain, which makes it possible to query not only sub-sites but other site collections and their sub-sites as well. By default, the current site collection and the current web on which the user is adding the web part will be pre-selected automatically.
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<img src="Misc/allsites_v2.gif" />
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### Unlimited filters
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The user isn't limited to 3 filters anymore, an unlimited amount of filters can be added to narrow down your query
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<img src="Misc/filters.gif" width="500" />
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### Improved date time filters
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It is now possible to include time validation when querying date fields, giving the ability to be more precise when it comes to querying items against date values.
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<img src="Misc/datetime.gif" width="500" />
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<br>
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### Handlebars templating engine
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Enjoy a simple, yet powerfull html-based templating engine for rendering your results. The web part even generates a default Handlebars template for you based on the view fields you have selected during the configuration!
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For advanced users, more than 150 Handlebars block helpers are available by default within the user defined template. For a list of all block helpers, see [handlebars-helpers](https://github.com/helpers/handlebars-helpers#helpers)
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<br>
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### Built-in template editor
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Edit your Handlebars template directly within the toolpane using a built-in [code editor](https://ace.c9.io/) which provides code folding, syntax highlighting, line wrapping, indentation and many more features to the tip of your fingers.
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<img src="Misc/editor.gif" />
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<br>
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### Include your own external scripts and/or block helpers!
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You can now specify your own external scripts that needs to be loaded either **before** or **after** rendering the Handlebars template.
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<img src="Misc/externalScripts.png" />
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External scripts can be used to include either libraries such as *jQuery*, or even *custom logic scripts* that can leverage the exposed **onPrerender** and **onPostRender** methods for advanced functionnalities.
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## Getting Started
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### Adding the web part to your page
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To add the `React Content Query WebPart` to your site page you have two options :
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- Either clone this repository, build the project yourself and connect it to SharePoint (see [officedev documentation](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/spfx/web-parts/get-started/connect-to-sharepoint))
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- Or download the `react-content-query-webpart.sppkg` file available in the `sharepoint/solution` folder of the repository and add it directly in your app catalog in order to be able to use it in your site.
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Note : The second method will only work for Office 365 sites, since the **.ppkg** file points to an Office 365 public CDN url which expects the referer to come from a valid https://**\*.sharepoint.com\*** url.
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### Configuring the WebPart
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As seen in the [User friendly configuration](#user-friendly-configuration) section, configuring the web part is quite straight forward. However, here's a list of *gotchas* that could save you some time :
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- The `Web Url` property uses the search to find all sites that are under the current domain. That being said, newly created sites can take a while to appear within the dropdown options, based on the search crawl schedule.
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- The `Filters` property still supports query string expressions like *[PageQueryString:ParamName]* for text fields, and date expressions such as *[Today]* or *[Today] + 4* for date fields.
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- The `Template` property stops getting automtically generated while selecting view fields as soon as the template is manually updated, in order to prevent unwanted loss of templating efforts.
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- The `Template Url` property has priority over the `Template` property, which means if a valid handlebars template url is provided, the inline template will be kept, but ignored at runtime.
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### Designing your Handlebars template
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#### Basics
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Before anything, make sure you understand the basics of Handlebars and its associated syntax by reading their [documentation](http://handlebarsjs.com)
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#### Available tokens
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To make it simple, a `template context` is automatically exposed within the handlebars template, giving the user the ability to work with the following exposed tokens :
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Property | Description
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{{items}} | The array of objects that represents the items returned from the CAML query
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{{pageContext}} | The SPFx [PageContext](https://github.com/SharePoint/sp-dev-docs/blob/master/reference/spfx/sp-page-context/pagecontext.md) object which contains usefull informations about the current web, list, user, language etc...
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{{accessDenied}} | A boolean value indicating if the current user has a denied access to the configured site that gets queried. This gives the designer the power to decide what to render in a case where the current user doesn't have access to the queried site.
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{{webNotFound}} | A boolean value indicating if the configured site that gets queried doesn't exist anymore. This also gives the designer the power to decide what to render in a case where the queried site doesn't exist anymore.
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#### Available block helpers
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Besides the available tokens above, nearly 150 [block helpers](http://handlebarsjs.com/block_helpers.html) are also available for use in the Handlebars template, see [handlebars-helpers](https://github.com/helpers/handlebars-helpers#helpers) for a list of all available block helpers.
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*Example using the "compare" block helper for conditional rendering based on current language :*
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```handlebars
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{{#compare pageContext.web.language '==' 1033}}
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<h1>This is rendered if current language is 1033</h1>
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{{else}}
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<h1>This is rendered if current language is anything else
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{{/compare}}
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```
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#### Displaying items and their values
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For displaying items and their field values, we must first iterate through the exposed **{{items}}** token using a **{{each}}** block helper :
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*Handlebars : *
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```handlebars
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{{#each items}}
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<div class="item"></div>
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{{/each}}
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```
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*Output : *
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```handlebars
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<div class="item"></div>
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<div class="item"></div>
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<div class="item"></div>
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...
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```
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Once we can loop within the items, we can render any field, as long as the field has been selected in the `View Fields` property of the toolpane. The Handlebars token corresponsding to a field is always the field's internal name, which is displayed in between {{brackets}} next to the field's display name in the property pane for reference.
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*Handlebars : *
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```handlebars
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{{#each items}}
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<div class="item">
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<p>MyField value : {{MyField}}</p>
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</div>
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{{/each}}
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```
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*Output : *
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```handlebars
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<div class="item">[object]</div>
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<div class="item">[object]</div>
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<div class="item">[object]</div>
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```
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We are almost there, the above code is rendering a *[object]* because the Content Query Web Part offers 3 different ways to render a field value:
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Property | Description
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{{MyField.textValue}} | Renders the text value of the field, a more readable end-user value to use for display.
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{{MyField.htmlValue}} | Renders the HTML value of the field. For example, a *Link* field HTML value would render something like \<a href="...">My Link Field\</a>
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{{MyField.rawValue}} | Returns the raw value of the field. For example, a *Taxonomy* field raw value would return an object which contains the term wssId and it's label
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*Handlebars : *
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```handlebars
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{{#each items}}
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<div class="item">
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<p>MyUserField text value : {{MyUserField.textValue}}</p>
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<p>MyUserField html value : {{MyUserField.htmlValue}}</p>
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<p>MyUserField raw value : {{MyUserField.rawValue}}</p>
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</div>
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{{/each}}
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```
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*Output : *
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```handlebars
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<div class="item">
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<p>MyUserField text value : Simon-Pierre Plante</p>
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<p>MyUserField html value : <a href="..." onclick="...">Simon-Pierre Plante</a></p>
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<p>MyUserField raw value : 26</p>
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</div>
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...
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```
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<br>
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### Including your own external scripts and/or block helpers
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#### Including basic library files
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For including JavaScript files within the web part, file URLs must be added to the **External Scripts** parameter available in the toolpart.
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<img src="Misc/externalScripts.png" />
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Each file URL must be on its own line, and placed in the desired order. The scripts will be loaded asynchronously, but in a sequential fashion, which means that the web part will wait until a script is completely loaded before proceeding to load the next one.
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#### Including custom logic files
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If you need custom logic files that can interact precisely **before** or **after** the rendering of the HTML generated by the *Handlebars* template, you must follow the pattern below in order for the web part to recognize the endpoints and call them when needed :
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```javascript
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ReactContentQuery.ExternalScripts.MyScriptFile = {
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onPreRender: function(wpContext, handlebarsContext) {
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// Do someting before rendering (ie: adding a custom block helper)
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},
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onPostRender: function(wpContext, handlebarsContext) {
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// Do something after rendering (ie: calling a plugin on the generated HTML)
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}
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}
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```
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Looking at this example, here are the key things that needs to be respected in order for the file to work :
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_Namespace_
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- [x] The script uses a namespace which starts by **ReactContentQuery.ExternalScripts.**, followed by the name of its own file
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- [x] The name of the file has to be written without its **.js** extension, and without any characters that aren't letters or numbers
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- [x] The name of the file needs to respect the same casing as in it's URL
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Examples :
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*https://www.mysite.com/MyScript.js*
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```javascript
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ReactContentQuery.ExternalScripts.MyScript {
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...
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}
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```
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*https://www.mysite.com/_My-Funky*named*Script_.js*
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```javascript
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ReactContentQuery.ExternalScripts.MyFunkynamedScript {
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...
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}
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```
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_Functions_
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- [x] The script implements the **onPreRender** function for code that has to be executed before rendering
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- [x] The scripts implements the **onPostRender** function for code that has to be executed after rendering
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Both functions provide the following parameters :
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Parameter | Description
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**wpContext** | Represents the context of the web part which called the function, which exposes all kinds of useful information such as **wpContext.domElement** which represents the HTML element on which the current web part is being rendered.
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**handlebarsContext** | Represents the handlebars context used for generating the template of the current web part. Can be used for adding handlebar block helpers in the **onPreRender** function for example.
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#### Including custom block helpers
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Custom *block helpers* that can be used directly within the *Handlebars* template can be added simply by using a custom logic script file that implements the **onPreRender** function.
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Example:
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*https://www.mysite.com/MyCustomBlockHelper.js*
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```javascript
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ReactContentQuery.ExternalScripts.MyCustomBlockHelper = {
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onPreRender: function(wpContext, handlebarsContext) {
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// Adds the "testHelper"
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handlebarsContext.registerHelper('testHelper', function(param, options) {
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return "Output from testHelper : " + param;
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});
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}
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}
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```
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## Building the code
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```bash
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git clone the repo
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npm i
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npm i -g gulp
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gulp
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```
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This package produces the following:
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* lib/* - intermediate-stage commonjs build artifacts
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* dist/* - the bundled script, along with other resources
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* deploy/* - all resources which should be uploaded to a CDN.
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<img src="https://telemetry.sharepointpnp.com/sp-dev-fx-webparts/samples/react-content-query-webpart/onprem" />
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