How to customize a column's display name on a per-view basis

Question

Is it possible to have the column display name change depending on which view is shown? When I change the display name of the column it applies to all views.

The main reason for doing this is some views need to have more columns than others, and I need to use abbreviations to shrink the column width. However, these views mostly apply to "super users" and regular views will benefit from having the non-abbreviated column name.

Answer 1

Sure, you can use CSR via JSLink to customize the display names of your columns on a per-view basis.

Here are some MSDN CSR code samples to get you started: https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/office/Client-side-rendering-JS-2ed3538a

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