How to configure Conditional Formatting in SharePoint Designer

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Added by Spike Xavier September 16, 2013

One of the best ways to enhance the user experience is to highlight something about the data they are interacting with. One of the coolest tools available out-of-the-box with SharePoint is Conditional Formatting. With Conditional Formatting, you can designate some condition that the data is in and based on the matching the data values to that rule set. Then you can have SharePoint Style the data in a particular way to have it stand out from the other data on the page.

In this blog, I will take a list of products and using conditional formatting, I will format those products which are under $10 to style the retail price column of those items in a larger font which will be bold and red in color.

To do this, I have created a new Site Collection with the top level site based on the Team Site template (STS#0). I have created a list template with some products inside of it. The list has 3 list columns, the out-of-the-box title column which I changed to sku, ProductDescription is multi lines of text and retailPrice which is currency. I based the list on the Custom List Template. I added some products to the list before saving it as a template with a variety of prices including a few that are below $10.

Here are the steps I will go through in the blog:

1. Create a list based on my custom template
2. Open SharePoint Designer
3. Create a new aspx page called ProductsPage.aspx
4. Connect the page to the V4.master page.
5. Create custom content inside the contentPlaceHolderMain
6. Insert a Data View of the Products List
7. Add Conditional Formatting to the Web Part
8. Set the ProductsPage.aspx as the home page of my site.
9. Add a filter to only show the products under $10
10. Customize the Sorting of the remaining items to be Ascending
11. Adjust the visible columns to just show the ProductDescription and RetailPrice.

Create a list based on my custom template 

Create a list based on my custom template – Filter 

Create a list based on my custom template – Select template 

Create a list based on my custom template validate results 

Open SharePoint Designer 

Create a new ASPX page called ProductsPage[dot]aspx 

Create a new ASPX page called ProductsPage[dot]aspx – Select ASPX 

Create a new ASPX page called ProductsPage[dot]aspx – Name the page 

Create a new ASPX page called ProductsPage[dot]aspx – Answer Warning 

Create a new ASPX page called ProductsPage[dot]aspx – Delete form tag 

Connect the page to the V4[dot]Master Page 

Create custom content inside the contentPlaceHolderMain 

Create custom content inside the contentPlaceHolderMain – Place the cursor 

Insert a Data View of the Products List 

Insert a Data View of the Products List – Save 

Add Conditional Formatting to the Web Part 

Add Conditional Formatting to the Web Part – Select column 

Add Conditional Formatting to the Web Part – Using the ribbon format column 

Add Conditional Formatting to the Web Part – Set the field name 

Add Conditional Formatting to the Web Part – Set the comparison 

Add Conditional Formatting to the Web Part – Set the value 

Add Conditional Formatting to the Web Part – Check the task pane 

Add Conditional Formatting to the Web Part – Validate settings 

Add Conditional Formatting to the Web Part – Set the styles 

Add Conditional Formatting to the Web Part – Save work 

Set the ProductsPage[dot]aspx as the home page of my site 

Set the ProductsPage[dot]aspx as the home page of my site – Using the ribbon 

et the ProductsPage[dot]aspx as the home page of my site – Preview in browser 

et the ProductsPage[dot]aspx as the home page of my site – Save any changes 

et the ProductsPage[dot]aspx as the home page of my site – Validate results in browser 

Add a filter to only show the products under $10 

Add a filter to only show the products under $10 – set the values 

Add a filter to only show the products under $10 – Validate the results 

Customize the sorting of the remaining items to be Ascending 

Customize the sorting of the remaining items to be Ascending – Add retail price 

Adjust the visible columns to just show the ProductDescription and RetailPrice 

Adjust the visible columns to just show the ProductDescription and RetailPrice remove unwanted fields 

Adjust the visible columns to just show the ProductDescription and RetailPrice – Validate settings 

Adjust the visible columns to just show the ProductDescription and RetailPrice – Validate results 

Spike Xavier
SharePoint Instructor – Interface Technical Training
Phoenix, AZ