Customize forms using SharePoint Designer

SharePoint is a great application building platform.
What is important, in half an hour after downloading you can start working creating nodes, libraries, lists, etc.

But, often, there comes a time when you need to change the page design, customize the forms, but the basic functionality available through the Web interface is not enough, but there is no desire or time to write code in Visual Studio.

In this case, we come to the aid of a useful tool - SharePoint Designer 2007, which with a lot of documentation and examples is now available for download absolutely free .
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In this topic, I would like to show one of the features of this tool for setting up list forms.

For example, let's create a form for creating an element of the “Tasks” list on the main page of the site.

To work with us, we actually need SharePoint (WSS) and SharePoint Designer (hereinafter SPD), which can be downloaded from the following links:
WSS + SP1
www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=EF93E453-75F1-45DF-8C6F-4565E8549C2A&displaylang=en
SPD
www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=baa3ad86-bfc1-4bd4-9812-d9e710d44f42

So, we have a SharePoint site and an installed SPD.

Then everything is simple.
We launch SPD, connect to our site and open the main page.



In the menu, click Insert> SharePoint Controls> Custom List Form, select the list (Tasks) and the type of the form (New).



The form is added.



Now we modify it to our requirements - we change the design, the text, delete unnecessary fields, etc.
(everything is done in the same way as in a regular HTML editor)

Save the page and go to our site.



Is done.
10-20 minutes and all without a single line of code. Good or bad, you decide.
You can also change the creation, editing and reading forms for any list.
To do this, open the required list in the SPD, select a page (for example, Newform.aspx), delete the standard form and add the Custom List Form according to the above example. Or you can simply create a new page, and in the properties of the list, assign it to display.

This is where the customization and creation of forms for SharePoint lists are just beginning :)