Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010: Building Applications and Workflows with SharePoint Designer 2010: Hands-On

Course Overview

SharePoint Designer 2010 allows organisations to extend the abilities of SharePoint beyond out-of-the-box functionality to build powerful data-driven pages, composite applications and workflows. This course provides the knowledge and skills necessary to maximise SharePoint without the need to write application-level code.

You Will Learn How To

• Build custom SharePoint business solutions with SharePoint Designer 2010
• Leverage SharePoint Designer 2010 features to extend SharePoint sites
• Aggregate SharePoint lists and integrate data from multiple sources to build robust site dashboards
• Automate complex business processes with SharePoint workflows
• Create forms and capture data for workflows and data storage
• Migrate your custom solution to production

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Related Courses

• Microsoft Sharepoint 2010: Administration
• Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Developer Track
• Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Administrator Track
• Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Application Development (MOSS, WSS, WebParts, Web Parts, Workflow)
• Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Technologies: Introduction
• Microsoft SharePoint 2010: What's New for IT Professionals in Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Beta
• Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Collaboration for End Users
• Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Site Management for End Users
• Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Power End User Track
• Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Developer BOOTCAMP

Audience

Anyone responsible for creating, building or managing SharePoint 2010 sites. Basic knowledge of SharePoint site structure at the level of Course 1501, "SharePoint (r) 2010 Technologies: A Comprehensive Hands-On Introduction", or experience with a previous version of SharePoint, is assumed.

Hands-On Training

Throughout an in-depth case study, you gain extensive hands-on experience creating SharePoint sites with SharePoint Designer 2010.

Exercises include:

• Enhancing site functionality by editing content and master pages
• Creating data views with custom formatting
• Building a dashboard with data from Oracle and SQL Server utilising the XSLT List View Web Part
• Streamlining tasks with workflow
• Building reusable workflows
• Leveraging external content types
• Deploying a solution across servers

Course Outline

SharePoint 2010 Introduction

Overview of SharePoint technologies

• Comparing and contrasting SharePoint Foundation with SharePoint Server
• Setting SharePoint Designer restrictions and Central Administration
• Establishing metadata fields with document sets, internal and external Content Types
• Exploring Web applications and site collections

Developing a business case study

• Utilising lists, libraries and Web Parts
• Setting standards with site templates

Customising Web Sites with SharePoint Designer 2010

Exploring new features in SharePoint 2010

• Navigating through the site with the Ribbon interface
• Leveraging lists and content type editors
• Creating reusable site assets

Modifying SharePoint sites

• Editing Content and Master pages
• Applying global changes via the 14 Hive
• Adding Web Parts and customising Web Part Zones

Displaying Information with Data Views

Creating data views and aggregation

• Displaying list data using the Data View Web Part
• Enabling browser-based editing with the XSLT List View Web Part
• Aggregating information in a data view
• Linking and merging data sources
• Accessing external lists

Data formatting for usability

• Formatting using XSLT
• Applying conditional formatting to highlight data
• Adding custom fields and customising data views

Connecting to External Data Sources

Working with relational data

• Leveraging Oracle and SQL Server data
• Retrieving data via stored procedures and views
• Merging data to create a dashboard

Gathering XML data sources

• Consuming Web Services and server-side scripts
• Connecting to RSS feeds

Business Connectivity Services (BCS)

• Utilising external content types
• Centralising security through BCS

Automating Business Processes with Workflow

Analysing business requirements

• Establishing business rules through branching logic
• Executing workflows in parallel and serial
• Identifying lists required in the workflow process
• Assigning tasks to participants

Building workflows

• Creating workflow actions and steps
• Controlling execution with variables, forms and form data
• Triggering workflows with changes, additions and conditions
• Leveraging Visio to build workflows
• Exporting workflows to Visual Studio for added flexibility

Monitoring workflow activity

• Tracking workflow status through Association Columns
• Handling errors and logging events

Refining Web Applications with SharePoint Designer Components

Accessing databases

• Adding, deleting and updating data
• Validating user input
• Displaying one-to-many relationships

Implementing InfoPath

• Generating forms from templates
• Creating custom forms
• Starting WorkFlows from InfoPath

Migrating to Production

Analysing options for migration

• Importing and exporting components
• Scripting migration with PowerShell

Managing deployment

• Setting quotas and viewing utilisation reports
• Backing up and restoring a SharePoint site

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