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How to add managed property mappings to a template?
If you add properties mappings to the ManagedPropertyMapping tag like the two examples above, they will become available in the UI of the Content by Search Web Part. There is another way of adding properties to your template and this is by just defining the managed property name like this:
As the Display Templates are scoped to Site or Site Collection, they can be used for all kind of results, can be used within Content Search Web Part, Refiners and so on. Recommend you to follow this MSDN Article on Display Templates to get an in-depth understanding of the topic.
What does managedpropertymapping do in a display template?
The header section of an item display template has a custom document property named ManagedPropertyMapping. This property takes the managed properties that are used by search and maps them to values that can be used by the display template.
Where to find display templates in design manager?
You can view existing display templates in Design Manager, but you don’t create them in Design Manager the way that you create master pages and page layouts. Instead, you: Open your mapped network drive to the Master Page Gallery. Open one of the four folders in the Display Templates folder.
When to use the itemtemplate property in Windows?
You use the ItemTemplate to specify the visualization of the data objects. If your ItemsControl is bound to a collection object and you do not provide specific display instructions using a DataTemplate, the resulting UI of each item is a string representation of each object in the underlying collection.
How is the output of a mapping template mapped?
In the output mapping template, each of the objects in the choices array (represented by $elem) are mapped from the corresponding objects in the bins array within the root object in the original JSON data.