SharePoint University

Hi, has anyone any experience of using SharePoint Designer 2007 to modify the standard look and feel of a Survey?  As a relatively non-techie person, I have been reasonably successful in changing lists and libraries (I have added text, buttons, pictures etc and reformatted elements to make a more attractive document) basing much of my understanding on the information in Microsoft tutorials and the online Designer help.

I can successfully change an Announcements look and feel as per this - http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/HA101191111033.aspx , and have tried to use the same approach in a Survey with no success.

The area it seems to fail on is when one has created the new page containing the custom list form, you then need to associate that page with a list using the List Properties feature in Designer.  It appears to accept the custom list form, and you can click the 'OK' button to save that choice onto the Survey, however if you then test that (using F12 in the Designer), or navigate directly to the survey itself and 'respond' to the survey, the original form is displayed.  Also if you go back into properties for the form in Designer and check to see that your custom option is still selected it isn't.

Am I being immensely thick over this, have I found a bug, or are changes of this sort not allowed on Surveys?

If anyone has experience / views / assistance they would like to offer I would be very grateful.

Regards.

I havent experienced this issue with Surveys but its probably similar to the issue I had when changing my lists.  There are different options when you are changing the default pages that are used in the list/survey properties.  Those being the content types of folder and item, I believe.  Im not certain if that is the same for surveys or not although I would imagine so since surveys is basically a different type of list.  Anyway you need to make sure you are changing it in the list view and not the folder view in order for it to stick.

I was having the same problem as you guys -- kept trying to change the "New Item" or "Edit Item" default forms. It wasn't until I read your post that it made sense to me. Thanks for the help.