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Creating custom forms for lists and external lists

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From the course: SharePoint Designer 2010: Creating Data-Driven Web Pages

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Creating custom forms for lists and external lists

Up to this point, we've mainly been focusing on displaying data from an external source, whether that's an XML file, a database data source, multiple data sources together, or an external content type. Well, now, it comes time to talk about getting it from SharePoint back into an external source of data. However, a word of warning before we begin: many external systems will not be friendly to the idea of you using SharePoint pages to create or edit data. Often those existing applications do auditing and logging of any changes to the data. You can't just reach into the database and change it. There may be too many dependencies and relationships as well to allow you to just create a new item and have it magically work. But once again, we're actually in a situation where it's more about the demands of your external system than it is about SharePoint. But to get back into this, we have to get back to talking about views and forms. Now just to recap, if I pick a regular SharePoint list or…

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