About customizing forms and views for SharePoint Services
When you use Microsoft FrontPage to add a list, survey, or library to your Web site based on Microsoft SharePoint Services, pages containing forms and views are also added. Forms and views are what your site visitors use to add, edit, or delete items from the lists, surveys, and libraries.
There are multiple customizations you can make to these forms and views depending on which version of SharePoint Services you are using:
About customizing SharePoint Team Services v1.0 from Microsoft
- Change the order of the fields.
- Remove fields from the form or view.
- Replace one field with another from the same list, survey, or library.
- Change text formatting of fields, such as font size and color.
- Modify table formatting, such as adding or removing rows and columns or merging cells.
- Add custom content, such as text or a picture.
By using FrontPage to edit views based on SharePoint Team Services v1.0, you can enable layout customization view to provide greater control over the customization of the view, which is displayed as a Web component.
By using layout customization view, you can see where fields are placed in a view or form of a list, library, or survey. This provides a way to control how data appears in a view and how fields appear on a form. In a view, where the same set of fields is repeated for every item in a list, the modifications you make in the set of fields appear for every item in the list.
Note Once you have modified a view or form with the layout customization view in FrontPage, you can no longer edit the view or form by using a Web browser. However, you can continue to maintain the customized version in FrontPage.
About customizing Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services
- Change the order of the fields.
- Remove fields from the form or view.
- Replace one field with another from the same list, survey, or library.
- Change text formatting of fields, such as font size and color.
- Modify table formatting, such as adding or removing rows and columns or merging cells.
- Add custom content, such as text or a picture.
By using FrontPage to edit views in Windows SharePoint Services, which are Web Parts, you can control several elements of the appearance of the views. These elements include whether the list is displayed with a fixed or percentage width, whether the Web Part uses a right-to-left or left-to-right language direction, and advanced options, such as whether you want to allow site visitors to be able to minimize the list on the Web page.
Because views in Windows SharePoint Services are Web Parts, you can use other Web Part features. For example, you can create Web Part connections between SharePoint list views and other Web Parts. By connecting the Form Web Part to the Announcements list, for example, you can enable your site visitors to perform additional filtering on the announcements in the list by using an interface that is similar to a search box.
In addition, you can convert a view to a Data View Web Part by using FrontPage. This enables additional formatting options, such as conditional formatting. By using conditional formatting, you set a condition or conditions for the data in your list view. If those conditions are met, specific formatting is applied to the records that are displayed. For example, you could specify conditional formatting that enables all records that were last updated by you to appear in bold, red text, or to show a photo of you next to the appropriate records.