The mobile market is growing continuously, and in the near future, more mobile devices than desktop computers will be used to surf the web. To ensure a user-friendly experience, we must optimize Internet websites for presenting content across the different devices. SharePoint 2013 offers a number of options for optimizing public-facing websites for mobile devices….
Tag: UX
Implementing your responsive designs on SharePoint 2013
Learn how a SharePoint publishing site looks and reacts to different display resolutions when you implement a responsive web design. Web designers are crucial for a successful SharePoint implementation. We all know that. With this in mind, I wanted to write an article for our SharePoint web designers out there. Not being an authority on…
SharePoint Developer Tools in Visual Studio 11 Beta – Part III: Tips and Tricks in SharePoint List Designer
In the Part I of this series, we were pleased to announce the SharePoint List Designer as one of the new features introduced in Visual Studio 11 Beta. Using the List Designer, you can quickly and visually build a SharePoint list within Visual Studio without having to create a list first in SharePoint Designer and…
Using jQuery Templates with SharePoint List Data
The new jQuery Templates plugin for the jQuery library offers a way to create data-driven HTML in client-side code. The concept is similar to the idea behind ASP.NET templates only implemented on the client instead of on the server. A jQuery template is an HTML snippet with placeholders that identify fields in bound data. When…
How to Open a List Form in a Modal Dialog Box
Among the many improvements to the user interface in SharePoint 2010, modal dialog boxes stand out. Odds are good that you will see one wherever a page transition would be distracting and it makes sense for you to remain in context. For example, when you are working with list items, the display, edit, and new…
Open a SharePoint Modal Dialog from an InfoPath Form: Part 5 of 5 (Vivek Soni)
We are developing an example application in five steps. We completed the first step in Part 1, the second step in Part 2, the third step in Part 3, and the fourth step in Part 4. Today we complete the final step, “Connect the Components.” Then we will deploy the application and test it. Here…
Open a SharePoint Modal Dialog from an InfoPath Form: Part 4 of 5 (Vivek Soni)
We are developing an example application in five steps. We completed the first step in Part 1, the second step in Part 2, and the third step in Part 3. Today we complete step four, “Create a Web Part to Host the Form.” Here is the roadmap for the entire development process: Create a Search…
Open a SharePoint Modal Dialog from an InfoPath Form: Part 3 of 5 (Vivek Soni)
We are developing an example application in five steps. We completed the first step in Part 1 and the second step in Part 2. Our task for today is step three, “Design the InfoPath Form.” Here is a roadmap for the entire development process: Create a Search Application Page. In this step, we design the…
Open a SharePoint Modal Dialog from an InfoPath Form: Part 2 of 5 (Vivek Soni)
We are developing an example application in five steps. We completed step one in Part 1. Today we move on to step two. Here is the roadmap for the entire development process: Create a Search Application Page. In this step, we design the user interface for the page that the modal dialog displays, and we…
Open a SharePoint Modal Dialog from an InfoPath Form: Part 1 of 5 (Vivek Soni)
Many page activities in SharePoint 2010 open a modal dialog that allows you to complete a task without navigating away from the current page. When the dialog opens, the background darkens (the so-called lightbox effect) indicating that the page is inactive. You must deal with the dialog before you can return to the page. Good…