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I have lists of a special item content type that I list using search. These list contain for instance a column of type Person or Group. In the lists the columns are being displayed as "Name (with picture and details)".

But with my display template I am just getting a long string displayed with the following info: "email address | Name | lots of digits i:0#.w|domain\account name"

I have read this article http://www.ableblue.com/blog/archive/2013/06/05/add-presence-to-sharepoint-search-results/ and it seems really nice to be able to display the name with a presence indicator, but I´ll be happy if I´d just get the name displayed in a nice way.

In the article it seems like he is working with another kind of object. All I have to work with is a managed property ManagerOWSUSER mapped to the column that I access using ctx.CurrentItem.ManagerOWSUSER

I guess I could do some string manipulation to find the name part. But I wonder if there is some proper object model to work with in this case? There seem to be many issues similar to this with search display templates.

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Try the below function.

Srch.U.getDisplayNameFromAuthorField(ctx.CurrentItem.EditorOWSUSER)

In your case,

Srch.U.getDisplayNameFromAuthorField(ctx.CurrentItem.ManagerOWSUSER)

I haven't tried it on a custom Person/Group column.

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  • Srch.U was a useful toolbox! getDisplayNameFromAuthorField seems to work on custom Person column. I also tried adding presence indicator using the code found in the link above. Indicator displays OK, but it only works good for results where I have only one item. If I have multiple results all result items get the same Manager as the last item in the result list.
    – Gunilla
    Commented Feb 5, 2016 at 13:23
  • You have to create a unique ID for the div. In that code I have a unique ID for the UserPersona. var userPersonaId = $htmlEncode(id) + "_peopleUserPersona"; more than likely you are not creating uniqu IDs.
    – Matthew McDermott
    Commented Feb 7, 2016 at 15:53
  • Thanks! I reviewed my variables, and it seems like I was assigning the variable uName only once and not for each item. Instead I was setting another variable that was not even being used... Now it is working as expected.
    – Gunilla
    Commented Feb 8, 2016 at 9:44
  • Can you post the presence code?
    – Eric Schrader
    Commented Aug 13, 2018 at 20:44

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