I used to customize the list item forms (new/edit/display) in the farm solution which is quite straight forward. Now, I am working on a project which only allows sandboxed solutions to customize the list item forms. Obviously, I am no longer able to deploy the dll to the GAC or bin. I think of two solutions, one is to create a visual webpart which requires quite a bit of heavy lifting work. The other solution would be using InfoPath form which require less coding and has the flexibility of adding repeated sections. I kind of prefer the InfoPath form approach. But I am not sure whether there will be some kind of difficulties/limitations during the development.
Did anyone ever customize the list item forms in the sandboxed solutions? Could you share your experience?
Thanks,
Perry
Thanks Dmitry. The look and feel is awesome. I’ll look more into it.
Thanks a lot Stefan for looking into different options. It’s much appreciated!
Looks like another interesting and great product out there.
It’s interesting that more and more InfoPath alternative products are on the market now. Is InfoPath really that hard? I myself ever developed InfoPath forms with and without code behind and I found that it’s not bad and it does what you need to do.
Another option is also to create a html form using form7Â http://forms7.codeplex.com/Â looks really promising.
Here is a demo http://www.sharepointhillbilly.com/demos/SitePages/SampleForm.aspx
You don’t need to write any code. The default XSLT Form Web Part can be used with a link configured to the form xsl.
You can add your own javascript with Forms Designer. It provides its own js-framework based on jquery. In addition to it you can use SPServices and its cascading drop downs in particular. As for list of related items, you can find detailed manual in our blog
