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Microsoft

Jan 13, 2017

Custom field rendering in modern list views

Hi SharePoint Developers, We're working hard on making modern lists and libraries more extensible.  One feature that we're working on right now is a SharePoint Framework component that allows y...

Danny Engelman

Iron Contributor

Jan 13, 2017

So you are **not** going to allow generic Client Side Rendering/Display Templates/JSLink scripting
as was implemented in SharePoint 2013.

But instead, you are working on a technology to only allow specific scenarios?

I would like what you described

+ interactive elements ("Who needs Forms?") like de CSR library: https://icsr.github.io

I would like to continue working with the CSR editor Andrei Markeev developed: (the best thing since sliced bread)
Cisar editor: https://github.com/andrei-markeev/cisar

LincolnDeMaris
Microsoft
Jan 13, 2017
Generic scripting is powerful, but it tends to be fragile - customizations tend to break when we change our default UI. Just ask our support team! So we want to focus more of our efforts around making specific scenarios work in a robust, guaranteed way. We want to build developer contracts that ensure certain scenarios (and scenario patterns) will work consistently as we make continuous updates to the service.

All that said, we have definitely not precluded giving developers the ability to do generic JSLink/CustomAction scripting on our pages - but we're trying to figure out how far we can get without doing that.
- Danny Engelman
  Iron Contributor
  Jan 14, 2017
  Interesting word choice and double negatives refering to double negatives. Are you sure you are in a Dev team and not from Legal?
  I am not a native speaker, so interpretation took some minutes..
  
  So, the answer is: Yes, Microsoft is working on scenarios to NOT allow generic scripting.