How to create customized views under list settings in SharePoint Server Design and Customization  
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John 5/15/2007 6:22 AM PST
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  I've created a custom list, now I want to create several custom views to go
along with it. Under list settings, I can create a view with some limited
customization, but what I really want to do is to edit the resulting ASPX
page to completely customize the view's look and feel without restriction. I
was hoping it was just a matter of changing some XSLT, but unfortunately, the
ASPX page contains some really ugly code and I'm not sure how, or even if I
can proceed to do any hand coding here.

Does anyone have any experience with this or can provide any references for
me on how to do this? Or is this just not possible?

Appreciate your help.
 
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Richard Brennan 5/15/2007 10:00 PM PST
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  You will never have unrestricted access to the aspx code because the code
doesn't exist. It's made up on the fly by SharePoint responding to
directions from site settings, themes, css values and data content - just to
name a few. But you probably already knew that. The best you can hope for is
the illusion of control (Just like in life!)

I've put pages together in SharePoint Designer that you would have sworn
came straight from a Word mail merge, or PowerPoint - so I can say that you
can often coerce the results you want on to the screen.

So, what, exactly, do you want this page to look like? Maybe we can figure
out a way to get your desired results.


--

- Ric



"John" wrote:

> I've created a custom list, now I want to create several custom views to go
> along with it. Under list settings, I can create a view with some limited
> customization, but what I really want to do is to edit the resulting ASPX
> page to completely customize the view's look and feel without restriction. I
> was hoping it was just a matter of changing some XSLT, but unfortunately, the
> ASPX page contains some really ugly code and I'm not sure how, or even if I
> can proceed to do any hand coding here.
>
> Does anyone have any experience with this or can provide any references for
> me on how to do this? Or is this just not possible?
>
> Appreciate your help.
 
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John 5/16/2007 6:10 AM PST
   
  Thanks Richard. That does answer my question and no, I didn't know that!
I'm old to .NET, but still new to SharePoint. I was hoping it would let me
set up my own views for any given list, but unfortunately, MS has severely
limited that possibilty. My purpose was to allow users to simply select a
predefined view that had whatever cool look and feel that I created for it.

I've been able to customize a site fairly easily using the WebpartForm (or
whatever they call it) using XSLT, but it wouldn't be as easy to use from a
business user's perspective.

"Richard Brennan" wrote:

> You will never have unrestricted access to the aspx code because the code
> doesn't exist. It's made up on the fly by SharePoint responding to
> directions from site settings, themes, css values and data content - just to
> name a few. But you probably already knew that. The best you can hope for is
> the illusion of control (Just like in life!)
>
> I've put pages together in SharePoint Designer that you would have sworn
> came straight from a Word mail merge, or PowerPoint - so I can say that you
> can often coerce the results you want on to the screen.
>
> So, what, exactly, do you want this page to look like? Maybe we can figure
> out a way to get your desired results.
>
>
> --
>
> - Ric
>
>
>
> "John" wrote:
>
> > I've created a custom list, now I want to create several custom views to go
> > along with it. Under list settings, I can create a view with some limited
> > customization, but what I really want to do is to edit the resulting ASPX
> > page to completely customize the view's look and feel without restriction. I
> > was hoping it was just a matter of changing some XSLT, but unfortunately, the
> > ASPX page contains some really ugly code and I'm not sure how, or even if I
> > can proceed to do any hand coding here.
> >
> > Does anyone have any experience with this or can provide any references for
> > me on how to do this? Or is this just not possible?
> >
> > Appreciate your help.
 
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