Show standard Sharepoint Ribbon in a custom list form

Question

I developed in VS 2010 a custom list form and I want to use the "standard" Sharepoint Ribbon, ie, the same Ribbon used in all list forms withe the same buttons.

It's possible do this?

Any help will be appreciated.

Answer 1

Yes it is possible. In my case the was a visual studio solution that contained a list with custom forms.

    <Forms>
      <Form Type="DisplayForm" Url="DispForm.aspx" SetupPath="pages\CustomDisplayForm.aspx" WebPartZoneID="Main" />
      <Form Type="EditForm" Url="EditForm.aspx" SetupPath="pages\CustomEditForm.aspx" WebPartZoneID="Main"/>
      <Form Type="NewForm" Url="NewForm.aspx" SetupPath="pages\CustomNewForm.aspx" WebPartZoneID="Main"/>
    </Forms>
  </MetaData>
</List>

And the pages referenced all are inherited from WebPartPage. The solution put these pages into {SharePointRoot}\Template\Pages.

Please let me know if you haven't got the idea and need more details.

Answer 2

I have an idea for this task - you can implement your custom form UI as a webpart and add it to a standard list item form. Then you need to hide (but not delete) a standart data form on that page. The idea behind it is to let the dataform webpart do the work for you - on a standard page it requests the needed tabs from the ribbon.. I've realized that it doesn't work because in this case you will not be able to control item save button - it will be rendered by DataFormwebPart. :(