Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Unleashed

Modify Form Web Parts Tools

The Modify Form Web Parts button on the List tab of the Ribbon allows the administrator to open the forms present for the list or library for editing. The editing allowed includes inserting text, image, video and audio, web parts, or the existing list view web part. The properties of the body of the form can be edited, too, such as height, width, chrome state, layout, advanced, and miscellaneous properties. This allows the administrator a great deal of control over how the various forms, such as New, Edit, and Display forms, appear, and over forms associated with content types in use in that list or library. For a simple example, an administrator could add a Video and Audio web part to the New form for a list, which ...