Microsoft® SharePoint® Designer 2010 Unleashed

Creating Custom Forms by Inserting a Custom List Form Control

As previously mentioned, if you’ve worked with SharePoint Designer 2007 then creating a custom list form by inserting the Custom List Form control from the SharePoint Designer ribbon is familiar to you and is an alternative to creating custom list forms via the Form part on the list settings page.

Insert a Custom List Form from the SharePoint Designer Ribbon

In order to use the Custom List Form option in the ribbon, you need to first create an ASPX page and then add the control into the page, as shown in the following steps.

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This scenario assumes use of either an existing Announcements list or a list based on the Announcements list. But the same principle applies when using the ...