Hi Friends.

SharePoint 2013 search has huge potential with the integration of FAST and SharePoint search it becomes a very powerful search solution. There are a couple of new search web parts added, like the Content Search web part that is an excellent search web part. A new search result rendering mechanism called display templates is provided that is similar to JSON to HTML templates.

We will explain a scenario about the Search result web part and the solution related to the problem using display templates.

Scenario: If we add a search result web part to the page and above that a search box web part to enter a search term and depending on that the search term we want to search for, the result web part will display the results. When we add both of these web parts to the page and before entering the search term also the results web part shows “Nothing here matches your search” (as shown in the following image), that we don't want to display unless we enter something into the search box.


Figure 1 Search Box

Obviously we may think that there will be some web part property available that will help us to resolve this issue, but the web part does not have any property like this. The display templates can help here, we will see how to use display templates to do this.

Search Results web part of SP 2013 uses the "Control_SearchResults.html" display template that is available under the Master Page Library –> Display Templates –> Search.

Solution


Figure 2 ShouldShowNoResultMessage

var currentQueryTerm = ctx.DataProvider.get_currentQueryState().k; if(ctx.ClientControl.get_shouldShowNoResultMessage() && currentQueryTerm!=””){

(As shown in the following image.)


Figure 3


Figure 4 Display Template

Save the changes and that's it, you will see the expected result.