SharePoint list views and forms i.e. new item, display item and edit item have been very limited in functionality where you can do very little to customize out of the box display. Developers have had to rely on SharePoint designer and cumbersome Visual Studio solution deployment to achieve desired results. For example, if you wish to colour code some fields in the form or group them under a heading, there was no way to do it out of the box.

Since the introduction of client side rendering in SharePoint 2013, Microsoft has opened the doors for developers to provide that functionality on client side. Meaning now developers can write a java script file put it in one of the SharePoint libraries, hook it up to the form or list view and you can amaze your clients with your skills. All this is achieved from the front end without having to code in visual studio and use any feature deployment. We at Morph Catalyst have successfully implemented this capability in our clients' SharePoint systems and what an amazing experience it has been. The visual differentiation has been a great welcome and different user groups are able to fill up form easily without getting lost in lengthy forms.

With technology changing rapidly in past few years, quiet a few new novel ways of displaying content on web pages have been introduced like jQuery, Bootstrap Angular js and so on. All these jargon are basically libraries built on top of JavaScript to provide advanced features that were otherwise bit of a work to achieve. Its like having stencils to draw shapes instead of drawing it by hand. You get consistent, professional look and feel, less cross browser issues and better user experience. With mobile devices becoming more and more popular as preferred choice of web browsing, these tools are even more of a necessity as they ensure your site content is displayed appropriately and is accessible no matter what device your customers choose.

SharePoint although didn't have these tools integrated into them but its possible to customise and introduce responsiveness and we took the opportunity to do just that. Like client side rendering, it can be controlled from front end which means no coded deployment. This opens up host of options like clean form with user friendly validation, hiding field description behind message bubbles, dynamic field behavior based on field description and uplifting overall user experience.

One of our clients with online garments store operated as drop-shipper and sourced their clothing range from wholesaler who had vast range of products, features and images. The issue was the wholesaler did not provide any B2B platform where drop-shippers could easily do stock take and update their inventory. That means client had to do manual stock take and spend a lot of time and money on the resources ending up in errors and bad customer reviews.

We invented a novel solution for our client where they will be able to run a few automated processes that will fetch information from wholesaler site, transform data as per clients system and upload it with current stock level. The process helped client stock take hundreds of products every night, their customers got new products ensuring stock levels to meet the demand.