External Template Files

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  1. Burke
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    Jun 2009

    Posted 26 Aug 2011 Link to this post

    Is it possible to put your template in an external. js file and then pull it into the page?

    <script src="/Scripts/template.js" type="text/x-kendo-template" id="details-n-actions-template">

    I tried this, but it didn't work and I didn't see any errors come through.
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  3. Atanas Korchev
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    Posted 29 Aug 2011 Link to this post

    Hello Burke,

    I think there is no way to get the content of the JavaScript file and this is why you can't include the template file like this.

    A possible workaround is to use $.get to load the template file:

    $(document).ready(function() {
       $.get("template.html", function(value) {
           var template = kendo.template(value);
     
           $("p").text(template( { firstName: "John", lastName: "Doe" } ))
       });
    });

    I am sending a sample implementation.

    Regards,
    Atanas Korchev
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  5. Steve
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    Posted 21 Nov 2011 Link to this post

    Can I add a feature request for this?  In jQuery templates you could have an external script file to define them

    1) Saves markup being downloaded
    2) Cache-able

    This is their syntax in the script file
    //Used to display the slides for the player
    $.template("playerslides",
              "<ul id='slideList' style='display:none'>\
                {{each CuePoints}}\
                <li class='rrItemInner'>\
                    <img src='${WebDav}${small}?ticket=${Ticket}' alt='Slide ${index}' cue='${time}' slideindex='${slideindex}' />\
                </li>\
                {{/each}}\
            </ul>");
    (the slashes are just me wanting it to be more readable by putting things on new lines)

    Steve
  7. Petyo
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    Posted 24 Nov 2011 Link to this post

    Hello Steve,

     You can define templates in external JavaScript files, and assign them to variables. Later, you can access them - thus achieving the same result (if I understood you correctly). 

    Something like this:

    // script.js
    var playerSlidesTemplate = kendo.template("<div>...")
    <!-- file.html -->
    ...
    <script>
    $("#foo").html(playerSlidesTemplate({}));
    </script>
    ...

    If you have troubles with the scope, you can always assign the template to the window -
    window.playerSlidesTemplate = ...

    Regards,
    Petyo
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  9. Joshua
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    May 2012

    Posted 28 Jul 2012 Link to this post

    I am linking to the example of how to load external templates that I think applies to this question: http://docs.kendoui.com/howto/load-templates-external-files 

    Perhaps people will find it a little easier than I did.

    I do have a question about the example. Does it make sense to use the pubsub method here, instead of the trigger?
    http://www.kendoui.com/blogs/teamblog/posts/12-07-03/building_really_big_applications_with_kendo_ui.aspx 
    http://vimeo.com/16234207 


  11. Spirent
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    Apr 2012

    Posted 20 Jan 2015 Link to this post

    If you're using MVC, drop the template into a partial view and include it where you want it.
  13. Joshua
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    May 2012

    Posted 20 Jan 2015 Link to this post

    loading remote templates was going to slow and it was a pain to manage multiples, so We just user server side includes now.

    <!--#include file="../Templates/_supplierSearchTemplate.htm"-->

    Still not sure how to do it with pure HTML...
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