Customizing SharePoint List Forms with Content Type Rendering Templates .


Recently I developed a solution for a client, which centred around a list which managed gift registration data. The client wanted some expressive labels next to the field controls, to provide guidance on how to fill-in each field; Field Descriptions I showed the client how field descriptions would appear underneath the field controls, but what … Continue reading Customizing SharePoint List Forms with Content Type Rendering Templates .

SharePoint 2010 Create and Update List Forms Programmatically


In this post, somewhat inspired by @BinaryJam‘s series on list form customisation using SharePoint designer, we will create a new (New Item) list form and update an existing Edit form programmatically, and add the SPServices autocomplete feature to both forms of an existing list. The SPServices autocomplete will be attached to a list column which … Continue reading SharePoint 2010 Create and Update List Forms Programmatically

SharePoint: Non-InfoPath XML Form Property Promotion and Demotion


In a previous post, I described how you could provision SharePoint promoted property columns for InfoPath forms using code, rather than using the InfoPath client designer. In the same vane, this post demonstrates how to support non-InfoPath XML forms in SharePoint; Using the SharePoint built-in XML parser to automatically determine the content type based on … Continue reading SharePoint: Non-InfoPath XML Form Property Promotion and Demotion