SharePoint Designer 2007: Introduction for Beginners (3 day)

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Course Overview

SharePoint Designer is a visual tool that allows for the customisation of SharePoint sites and applications without writing custom code. In this course, you acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to create SharePoint Web applications with SharePoint Designer 2007.

Audience

This course is valuable for anyone who wants to build powerful, custom solutions with SharePoint Designer. A basic knowledge of Windows SharePoint Services at the level of Course 538, " SharePoint Technologies: Comprehensive Introduction ", is assumed.

Skills Gained

• Create and customise SharePoint Web applications with SharePoint Designer 2007
• Build a consistent site structure with Master and Content Pages
• Display dynamic content with Web Parts and SharePoint controls
• Add editable dataforms to SharePoint sites
• Streamline business processes with SharePoint workflows
• Manage custom sites with reporting and development tools

Course Outline

Overview of SharePoint Designer

Identifying application requirements

• Defining the architecture
• Selecting available components
• Assessing the needs of the user

SharePoint Designer components

• Gaining familiarity with the user interface
• Leveraging the No Code paradigm
• Integrating with Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 and SharePoint Server 2007

Structuring SharePoint Web Sites

Creating a site foundation

• Organising SharePoint components
• Utilising site templates
• Customising QuickLaunch navigation

Standardising the page layout

• Positioning page content
• Applying corporate branding with Master Pages
• Managing content regions with placeholders
• Enhancing default page templates with formatting tools

Publishing Centralised Information

Contrasting static and dynamic content

• Working with HTML and XML
• Providing on-screen editing capabilities

Utlising server-based controls

• Analysing the Page PostBack process
• Benefiting from Web Parts: pages, zones, galleries
• Integrating ASP.NET 2.0 components with SharePoint
• Customising output with Task Panes

Integrating Forms with Data Sources

Defining data connectivity

• Adding metadata definitions to the library
• Connecting to XML documents
• Customising views of SharePoint lists
• Managing data source content

Working with external data

• Accessing relational databases
• Consuming Web services
• Updating data in the DataForm

Configuring data fields

• Conditionally formatting Data Views
• Specifying data fields: checkboxes, radio buttons, labels, text boxes
• Creating calculated column values

Implementing Master Detail relationships

• Filtering related information
• Connecting Web Parts to categorise output
• Linking data sources within a DataForm

Automating Business Processes

Defining workflow characteristics

• Identifying business processes
• Differentiating workflow types: linear, state, rules based

Leveraging SharePoint workflows

• Hosting workflows on the Web
• Investigating built-in workflows: Three-State, Approval, Collect Feedback, Collect Signatures, Disposition Approval

Building custom workflows

• Combining actions with the Workflow Designer
• Modifying existing workflows
• Assigning workflows to lists

Styling User Interfaces

Formatting page content

• Producing a Web prototype with page layout tools
• Modifying presentation with Cascading Style Sheets

Enhancing Data View output

• Transforming XML output with XSL
• Utilising the On Object user interface

Managing SharePoint Applications

Facilitating development

• Delegating content management with the Contributor feature
• Saving and restoring application sites

Deploying and tracking applications

• Building and reusing site templates
• Monitoring applications with the SharePoint Designer reports

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SharePoint Designer 2007: Introduction for Beginners (3 day) / MSP07-DS3