Written By: Virgil Carroll
Posted: 9/27/2012
Another tip for creating forms is to include the navigation buttons/links on both the top and bottom of each page. This is especially important when there pages on the form require scrolling.
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Speaker 1: Building on my last one where I was talking about buttons needing to be right justified. The other thing that tends to be really important, especially in bigger forms, is having both buttons at the top and the bottom, because a lot of times people don’t really understand where to go for them, especially if you’re following what I consider SharePoint form practices. Maybe you have 27 fields that they could fill out, but really, they only need to fill out the top two. From a usability perspective, having those buttons up top there as well which may seem like a trivial thing to you. Can actually make the user be able to create things much quicker, and actually have a much better understanding. So having these buttons at the top and bottom is just one little thing that can add a lot for users use of the site.
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Virgil Carroll is the owner and president of High Monkey – based in Minneapolis Minnesota. Virgil also wears the multiple ‘hats’ of Principle Human Solutions Architect and SharePoint Architect.
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