Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010

Course Overview

This 4 day course is designed to give students the tools and knowledge to customize SharePoint sites without writing code, by using SharePoint Designer 2010 and in-browser customisations.

This course is designed to show you the full scope of design and customisation that is possible using SharePoint designer. If you are using SharePoint in ernest and need to fully brand your site(s) or are simply wanting to start out using SharePoint you will want to customise it at some point and that will probably involved SharePoint Designer.

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Related Courses

• Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010: Introduction Level 1
• Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010: Intermediate Level 2
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• Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010
• Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2007/2010: Advanced
• Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2007/2010: Fundamentals
• Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Designer Track
• Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010: Level 1 Introduction
• Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010 Level 2
• Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2007

Audience

This course is for administrators\SharePoint administrators who will be responsible for customizing the look and feel of a SharePoint deployment and also providing additional bespoke functionality that is not possible by using browser customization options.

Skills Gained

You will learn how to

• Create SharePoint Sites using SharePoint Designer
• Work with Lists & Libraries
• Create and reuse Workflows
• Use CSS within the context of SharePoint Desinger
• Create and Modify webpages
• Work with data sources and master pages
• Manage Web Content in SharePoint Server

Prerequisites

Delegates attending this course would need to know about lists, libraries, site columns, content types, Web Parts and how to administer a team site using the browser.

Course Outline

Introduction to Windows SharePoint Designer 2010

• Introduction

SharePoint Designer Basics

• Understanding SharePoint designer 2010
• Navigate within SharePoint Designer
• Creating SitesUsing Task Panes
• Controlling use of SharePoint Designer

Creating SharePoint sites

• Managing users and permissions
• Creating a site hierarchy
• Deleting a site
• Resetting a site template
• Exploring a SharePoint site
• Navigating a sites components
• Saving and using a site template

Working with lists & libraries

• Creating lists and libraries
• Importing data into SharePoint
• Working with list columns
• Creating an XSLT list view web part
• Adding custom actions
• Creating site columns
• Creating content types

Using Business Conectivity Services

• Creating database external data sources
• Creating external content types
• Creating Office Application content types
• Creating and managing external lists
• Exposing and using the BDC model
• Creating a profile page
• Using associations

Creating Workflows

• Use the SharePoint Designer 2010Workflow Designer Wizard to create custom workflows
• Usingactions and conditions
• Modifying a workflow
• Deploying a workflow
• Creating a multistep workflow
• Creating a site workflow
• Using Visio to map a workflow
• Importing a Visio workflow
• Deleting a workflow

Using Reusable Workflows and Workflow Forms

• Creating reusable workflows
• Creating association columns
• Using workflow templates
• Globally reusable workflows
• Creating initiation and association forms
• Retrieving values from initiation forms
• Modifying an InfoPath form
• Publishing an InfoPath form
• Modifying Initiation forms
• Modifying Association forms
• Modifying task forms

Branding SharePoint Sites

• Setting CSS and Colour Coding page editor
• Identifying styles in CSSI
• dentifying styles on content pages
• Creating and attaching CSS files
• Creating a HTML page
• Creating styles
• Using style application commands
• Understanding SharePoint CSS inheritance
• Using IntelliSense to add CSS
• Using CSS reports

Creating and Modifying Webpages

• Inserting text, screen tips, hyperlinks and images
• Working with web parts
• Changing a site homepage
• Modifying a list view page
• Creating list view pages
• Creating an ASP page
• Inserting web part zones
• Attaching a master page

Data Views and Conditional Formatting

• Create a data view
• Conditional formatting
• Apply filtering and style
• Using XSLT
• Working with XPath expressions
• Showing and hiding content
• Inline editing

Working with Data Sources

• Using data sources
• Working with XML data
• Connecting to an RSS feed
• Connecting to SOAP services
• Connecting to REST services
• Connecting to a database
• Using linked sources
• Connecting web parts

Working with Master Pages

• Understanding master pages
• Default master page
• Controls used on master pages
• Copying and saving a master page
• Customizing a master page
• Changing the default master page
• Managing content place holders
• Exporting master pages
• Resetting a master page to site definition

Usability and Accessability

• User centric design methodology
• Defining accessible branding
• Testing for usability
• Accessibility legislation and testing
• Maintaining legislation compliance

Managing web content in SharePoint Server

• Creating a publishing site
• Understanding web content management
• Understanding the page model
• Creating a page layout
• Modifying a page layout
• Rating web content
• Approving a page layout
• Restoring earlier versions of pages

Using Controls in Web Pages

• Ribbon and Tag properties
• Task Panes
• Standard ASP.NET controls
• ASP.NET validation controls
• SharePoint Data view controls
• SharePoint server controls