Customize SharePoint list form to sections / tabs / pages

Question

I have a SharePoint solution that uses a list with about 20 different pieces of data. I would like to be able to break them into sections / pages / tabs so that the user does not feel their filling and editing. This is not so bad.

I know how to use SPD (SharePoint Designer) to customize list forms and wondered if anyone knew of a method to achieve this.

I examined the use of the MultiView control, but this seems to mask the rendering in the form.

Ideas are welcome.

Answer 1

You can create some Javascript to hide the fields until it is needed, but it will be a difficult word to fix it. It may be easier to create a custom .NET form for data and use the object model to store list data.

Answer 2

Try using the Form Designer tool: http://spform.com . It allows you to create rich dynamic tabbed forms based on jquery-ui tabs.

Answer 3

I would probably change the current form and add div tags that show or hide, through javascript, based on a click somewhere. This avoids the extra .NET code in general, and therefore, possibly the multivision issue you saw.

Answer 4

jQuery UI has a nice tab control that you can use in conjunction with some validation to make sure the form is not submitted if the user hasn’t filled all the pages. Before attaching jQuery, you will want to split the existing form into separate div -wrapped tables.

Answer 5

You can try using PowerForms . It supports tabs and free positioning control (uses silverlight).

Answer 6

I came across this javascript way of tabbing forms. May be useful for you? Click the image (since I’m not yet allowed to post images ...)

Answer 7

Information paths support this, but you need to expand them in a form library, not a list. You can filter the repeating section based on other fields in the form and display only the fields based on the previous selection. This is the easiest way, not sure if you have InfoPath and server / license configured to use infopath forms?