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When you create a SharePoint list the default SharePoint add/edit/display form get its looks by its own. For example the fields appears in the add/edit/display form based on the sequence you added the fields. Also by default all fields of the list are shown in the forms. Sometimes you may need to give a hand to customized that look and feel. I’ll try to give some light on how you can customize the default add/edit/view form of SharePoint list. Enable Content type Management First To customize the List forms you need to enable ‘content type management’. You can do so from List settings Page and then click ‘Advance Settings’. Then select yes for “Allow management of content types” as shown below: Figure 1: Enable content type management. Once you have enabled the content type for a list you will find a available content types associated with the lists under ‘content types’ section of list settings page as shown below: Figure 2: Content type management section in list settings...

SharePoint provide rich support for approval process. You can maintain version of changes, you can use built-in workflows or develop your own for approval process. You can even create custom workflow activities and use it in SharePoint Designer to create your own approval workflow. Unfortunately, SharePoint doesn’t provide a nice UI where approver can get a snapshot of what’s changes he’s going to approve/reject.  What we are familiar with the following UI: Figure 1: Very generic UI to approve/reject What if we could have a dialog as shown below: Figure 2: Custom Approve/Reject dialog with modification highlighted As shown in figure 2, the approver will have the better look of what’s the changes he’ll approve/reject. As shown in figure 2, the person who will approve/reject, can get a snapshot of what changes are waiting for his/her approval. What’s the cost of custom approve/reject dialog? Now the question comes what’s the development cost of such a custom approve/rej...