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I haven't had experience with JS Link and thought it would be a good idea to start learning it and try it out. I found what I thought were pretty straightforward tutorials of how to use it. First I tried using these examples, specifically the Priority Coloring and Percent Complete.

The first time around when I tried adding the JS Link file, my page turned white and stayed white. I haven't found a solution to that yet besides deleting the view and creating a new one. I tried doing this again and it seemed to have a successful connection as the completed checkbox in my task list changed from an actual checkbox to 'No'. But the color of my priority fields didn't change.

I tried doing this in a different site to see if that made a difference and didn't notice anything. I had similar results with the Percent Complete script. I was initially placing these scripts in my Site Assets library and then tried placing them in the masterpage library like I found in another tutorial video.

I would just like to successfully get a JS Link file to work on my list and then go from there. Has anyone come across these issues or know what I need to do to fix them?

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  • I don't know what the trouble you are having. I did this tutorial here and got it to work.
    – Rothrock
    Nov 18, 2014 at 21:27
  • How are you attaching the JSLink? I find WebPart properties unreliable. You need to use Powershell to attach to the view itself
    – Michael Colbs
    Nov 18, 2014 at 22:59
  • for me, none of previous solutions was working. But when I changed the javascript file name, it works, but when I changed the content of the file and uploaded it again, none of changes was executed. It worked only if I changed the JavaScript file name again and again and...
    – user68822
    Jul 19, 2017 at 13:39

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I got this to work. I had to use ~sitecollection/ to start the path in the JS Link field. I wasn't using ~sitecollection/ before and was just using the path that I would generally use (http://www.contoso.com/mysite/SiteAssets/filename.js). I don't quite understand why it works this way but this is what fixed my problem.

Here's the article that helped me figure this out.

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/72e88ca7-af70-4769-9530-4b37d9b8c1d0/js-style-is-not-working-in-sharepoint-2013?forum=sharepointcustomization

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I also solved this issue by using a URL beginning with ~site/ instead of ~sitecollection/, so it may be the case that any relative URL is accepted by SharePoint.

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    you need to use one of the accepted tokens in the beggining. Any other relative URL and it won't work. I think they are: ~site, ~sitecollection, ~sitelayouts and ~sitecollectionlayouts
    – Choggo
    Jan 19, 2015 at 1:59

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