Refinement Web Part - Showing Refiner Counts in SharePoint Online

[Stephen Hayes]

I'm encountering an issue with the MS documented process for displaying counts of refiners on refinement web parts.

As per the recommended steps, I've altered the ShowCounts variable in the Filter_Default.html display template from 'false' to 'true'. However this is causing the web part to throw an error in an apparently unrelated section of the display template:

This line appears to be instantiating a date, and does not seem related to the count variable - 'var g_requireJSDone = new Date().getTime();'

I'm encountering this issue across multiple different tenants and site collections - including recently created, out-of-the box ones.

Has anyone else encountered this issue? Anyone know of a workaround?

Thanks!

[#2 · Accepted solution]

Hi @Stephen Hayes,

First of all that article isn't great. Editing out of the box display tmeplates is somehting that shouldn't be done. it is better to create a copy of that display template and give it a new name.

More details here:

https://veenstra.me.uk/2016/09/13/creating-counters-in-your-refinement-panels/

Then on the issue. There seems to be a problem with the script section of the display template. moving those lines  up a bit will resolve the problem.

[#3]

Thanks Pieter - excellent, clear response in your blog!