Comments on: How we did it: Fly Buys website

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Cool, thanks for this. I had actually seen the MS article but skipped through it quickly as it was pretty bland documentation. The second article was very useful. In the end I used custom web controls to determine visibility on the editform based upon security…probably should have used custom field type controls but the project is already in production and we have to keep the existing columns / field types and their data.

By: Ari Bakker

Ari Bakker — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Two basic approaches come to mind:

First is to create a list definition that includes a custom editform.aspx and package this up as a feature. See the article titled "Creating Custom Form Templates" in the WSS 3.0 SDK for more details.

The second option is to create a custom webpart, usercontrol, page or other code based component that uses the object model to manually render the fields and update the relevant list item. For the Fly Buys site we created a separate "Data Maintenance" section of the site so users didn't have to understand the underlying list structure. To do this we built a series of webparts and placed these on custom pages deployed via a feature. Chris Johnson has a good post on some of the options for custom development at http://blogs.msdn.com/cjohnson/archive/2006/09/05/application-development-on-moss-2007-amp-wss-v3.aspx

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Actually I'll be a little more descript: I am wanting to customise the EditForm.aspx pages however I don't have the luxury of using SharePoint Designer in production. I have to package it up into a feature, and adding a DataFormWebPart with SharePoint Designer in a page and then releasing it into production as a feature doesn't work for me. I assume the web part is configured for the development environment. How did you do it?

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

How did you put together the page with all of the SharePoint field controls? Did you use application pages, sites pages, forms (editform.aspx), or usercontrols? I am wanting to do the same thing but have been trying for days to find a good way of doing it.

By: keith patton

keith patton — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

actually, i ended up using a responsefilter in the end, you need to fix up bad javascript declarations but am happy to report xhtml 1.0 compliance now!

By: Keith Patton

Keith Patton — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hi,
I see in the source of the flybuys site, that the PlaceHolderAdditionalPageHead placeholder in your master page is generating a duplicate title tag. This is happening for me as well and i can't see any reference anywhere as to how to resolve it. We are working towards xhtml 1.0 transitional and i would prefer not to have to use a regex and response filter to clean this up if i can avoid it.

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hi Erinc
I am trying to do the same thing. If I find further information on this I will post here or please feel free to email me.

By: Senthil

Senthil — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

HI Ari,

Thats a Fantastic Site.Just I was courious to navigate to the _layouts/settings.aspx.But it too smart it redirected me back to the root site ..How did you acheived this ? This will help me to secure our site

Thanks & Regards
Senthil

By: erinc arikan

erinc arikan — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Very nice, I am trying to do something similar, I am trying to integrate sharepoint with igoogle like UI on ASP.net, do you think that it's feasible.

By: =8)-DX

=8)-DX — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Toby, maybe an iisreset (or AppPool refresh) would help.. I would recommend doing that after almost all stsadm commands