fun with forms… Jacob Greeff3 October 2015Johannesburg, SA

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After 10 odd years in embedded OS design,

product design and system test I thought it was time to join the

server side of life.

I am also a student again having recently

started my Phd (early days though).

Ps. I am growing my hair, its not a

purposeful mullet. http

@ 3fifteen blogs

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Japie Greeff

www.Britehouse.co.za

About Me

1) look at some options that exist for creating custom forms.

2) Go into the Foetal position. Cry.

3) Use JQuery, CWP and CSS instead.

Session Info

Session Index• Forms? What are these things you speak

of?• Ye Olde Sharepoint form• Infopath forms• Aspx and SP Designer• Html 5 and Ajax• Angular • Jquery Replacement forms

User + Form: a Love story

Does your user care how you do it? Or does he care about results?

Dev + Form: Sophie’s Choice

So many options…

Infopath

So Fast!Drag!Drop!Its like magic!!!!

However…

Infopath

Ouch.

ASPX – so little time…

Options! The sky is the limit!!!! But…

ASPX – so little time…

• You can do basically anything• No limit to data sources or anything really• Where you need to be if you want to integrate

But…

• Totally needs a Dev• With great power comes great responsibility• Learning curve• Postback anyone?Etc. etc. etc.

HTML5 – Ajax

Asynchronicity! No postbacks for you!

HTML5 – Ajax

• HTML5 validation – so easy• Rest service gives you access to anything you could

need• Very dynamic, options can change as the user

interacts• Angular and knockout allow for more generic

controllers

But…

• Cross site scripting can be a pain• Angular is awesome, but has quite a learning curve• Types – changes in the SP types need to be handled

wherever you use then – Error messages from the Rest service SUCK!

HTML5 – Cross site side note

If you add a gateway, this largely solves the cross site issue…

Aaaaaaand finally – Replacement!

This is where a demo happens….

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Remember, there are no stupid questions only stupid people…

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