I am working on a small query tool that will be used to make AJAX calls against SharePoint’s Enterprise Search Query Web Service. Previously, I created the SOAP messages by appending a gigantic series of strings together. In this iteration, I wanted to use JsRender (my template engine of choice right now and the successor to jQuery templates).

I’ve been learning a lot about JsRender and Knockout.js after finding Ryan’s answer on StackOverflow. I’ve created a couple of templates and started to use the {{for}}{{/for}} tag.

I was having trouble figuring out how to access the parent object’s data from within the for loop. After reading John Papa’s awesome posts, Using JsRender with JavaScript and HTML and Advanced JsRender Templating Features I came up with a quick custom “Debug” tag to help me understand.