Provisioning TermSets/Terms to Terms Store from Apps

I was reading Deploying Managed Metadata Fields by Luis Manez, in the blog he mentions about creating TermSets and Terms with PowerShell. I couldn't get it working and instead created an APP to provision the TermSets and Terms.

Below are brief steps:

1. Create a "App for SharePoint 2013" Project (SharePoint-hosted)

2. Open AppMainifest.xml and set the Permissions

3. below is the js code



call the InitiateTaxonomy from the onGetUserNameSuccess method.

4. Deploy the app and verify by navigating to the Term Store Management.

Note: I used the publishing site template, the Site Collection was already created.

Tiles view with Client Side Rendering

In my previous post I wrote about Tiles view with CQWP. You can also achieve this using Client Side Rendering (CSR examples by Wesley).

I wanted my custom list to have Tiles view:

I created a Javascript Display Template file & uploaded to the masterpage gallery and set the JS Link in the Miscellaneous section.

Below is the sample CSR code (update the styles..):



CSS:



Note: I have the DisForm hard coded, I couldn't find a way to get the DisplayUrl property like in REST. I shall update this when I come across a better way.

Output: