Microsoft® SharePoint® Designer 2010 Unleashed

Creating New, Edit, and Display Item Forms

So far in this chapter, you’ve seen how to create and style XLVs in SharePoint Designer. In this section, you find out how to create the accompaniment to XLVs—DFWPs in the form of New Item, Edit Item, and Display Item forms, shown in Figure 23.85. Specifically you learn how both XLVs and DFWPs can work hand-in-hand to create a data entry page in a SharePoint site. Chapter 25 covers the form creation process in lists and document libraries, which is slightly different from creating forms using the options shown in Figure 23.85. Forms created in Chapter 25 are far more restrictive than DFWPs and certain ribbon commands, such as the Add/Remove Columns command, are disabled. Using DFWP forms, you can create ...