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Customizing the user experience of SharePoint: Overview of the default SharePoint interface from a technical point of view (Part 1 of 6)

Started by Arno Nel (SharePoint Magazine) · 9 months ago

Have you ever wondered how the built in interface actually works? Why is a list item shown the way it is? How are the input forms built and how can you change how they work and look? This series will introduce you to a wide variety of customization options not usually covered in books or onlin ... Continue reading »

10 comments

  • bpgadhia

    8 months ago

    Great article. What an insight it provides!! Thanks.
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  • Bjørn Furuknap

    8 months ago

    Hello,

    Thanks, how nice of you to say that, I am glad you liked it. I was afraid that it would be too deep for online reading, or that the attempts at humor would distract from the reading experience.

    Look forward to the next article as well, and of course, The Book.

    .b
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  • pculmsee

    8 months ago

    This is a truly terrific article. In reading it, I have a full appreciation of what it took to write this and all I can say I'm sure glad I stuck to infopath leave forms :-) How on earth did you find the time???

    ( Humour/jokes are good in my opinion. It helps to break up otherwise dry topics and funny analogies can actually enhance the learning experience. )
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  • Arno Nel (SharePoint Magazine)

    8 months ago

    id like to echo Pauls comments.

    Brilliant article. Its been very well recieved so far.
    Well done bud. keep up the excellent work.
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  • Bjørn Furuknap

    8 months ago

    Thanks a lot, feedback such as this makes it all worthwhile :-)

    For finding time, well, Arno was kind enough to let me write this stuff so the least I could do to thank him is to find time to do a good job.
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  • Matthew

    8 months ago

    thank u r information

    it very useful
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  • Bjørn Furuknap

    8 months ago

    Hello,

    I am very glad you enjoyed it. I wanted to make it deeper and cover more ground, but for the sake of the time you will have to spend reading I found it better to shorten it a bit, and rather focus on getting an overview here.

    The next articles in the series will go into far more detail on each of the topics covered here, so if you are particularly interested in one area you should have a field day :-)

    This article is also spanning two full chapters in The Book so you can imagine the depth that I will be able to explore there.

    .b
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  • Sandeep

    8 months ago

    awesome.. this is really gr8 work. specially consolidation of everything
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  • craig

    8 months ago

    Best article i've come across to describe lists elements in onet.xml.

    Thanks
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  • Thanh-Nu

    6 months ago

    Thank you for taking your time to write such a good article. I am looking forward to buying your up coming book "Building the SharePoint User Experience". Are you going to publish anything related to the "naming convention" for Features and Site templates under the "12 hive"? I find it anoying to have this flat directory where developers deploy their features and site templates with approximative naming convention. Also all those scary "unique integer id" assigned to List Template and other customized item that should be greater than 10000. How do you keep track of such "unique id" in a big organization with different developer teams? What happens if someone use an ID that have been used by another developer? I am looking for discussions about these topics, if you have written something alike or come across such articles, please give me pointers.
    Thanks again for your great work.
    Thanh-Nu
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