How to set ServerRender property of a SharePoint WebPart via Powershell?

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Jun 242016
 

What’s ServerRender?

ServerRender is a property of a webpart which disables client-side rendering for a webpart. You’ll lose some cool features of a webpart once you enable this feature for e.g.

  1. Inline editing of a list item, or in other words “Quick Edit”.
  2. Look and feel of the list changes to the traditional view, from a excel like view.

But this feature is quite handy when it comes to workaround some bugs related to client-side JavaScript.

 

How do we enable this feature via SharePoint UI?

  1. GoTo Site settings->Edit page
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  2. Select list web part and then select WEB PART on the ribbon bar, then select the list web parts “Web Part Properties” on this ribbon.
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  3. On the properties window that pops out on the right side, enable “Server Render”, at the bottom of this screenshot…
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How do we enable this feature via PowerShell?

I had to dig around a bit to figure this out. Here’s how we do this via PowerShell…

#Web URL, change to your web's URL
$WebUrl = "http://sp/sites/TaskList"
#ListName, change to your list's name
$ListName = "MyTasks"
$web = Get-SPWeb $webUrl

#Get all web parts in this collection, please note this is for default view, if you've got other views please use URL for that view
$WebParts = $web.GetWebPartCollection($web.Lists[$ListName].DefaultViewUrl, [Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.Storage]::Shared)
#Dump names of all web parts on this page
$WebParts.DisplayName

#Assuming you just have one web part on this page.
$WebParts[0].ServerRender=$true
$WebParts.SaveChanges($WebParts[0].ViewGuid)

$web.Dispose()