custom edit unlike the built-in edit form will not show newly created fields

Question

I am working on an Enterprise wiki site collection. now if i am using the built-in Edit form it will automatically show any new field added to the Enterprise-wiki content type.

But now i wanted to hide specific fields only from the edit form and keep them inside the create & view forms. To be able to do so, i created a custom edit form and i added Display:none for all the fields i want to hide. This worked well ,, but now if i added a new field to the enterprisewiki content type it will not be shown automatically inside the custom edit form,, while if i am using the built-in edit form the field will be shown.

now i created a custom edit form , because inside the built-in edit form i can not see the markup for the fields to add Display:none , while in the custom edit form i can see the markup and add any custom HTML to it.

so can anyone adivce on this please?

Thanks.

Answer 1

This is expected when you create a custom editform, and changes to the underlying list structure like fields being created manually or via a content type do not show up. They must be added manually in the custom form.

Sharepoint has behaved this way since 2007 that I know of, and presumably in 2003 and 2001. You are essentially breaking the dynamic association by inserting a custom EditForm. It pulls down the information at that time and then becomes static.