Explore the countless possibilities of SharePoint Designer 2007. In this video series John Jansen teaches you to build very simple or incredibly complex business solutions on the SharePoint platform. Learn about Master Pages, how to modify Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in SharePoint Designer, and how to integrate Visual Studio with custom Web part deployment and workflow actions.

John Jansen has been working at Microsoft for over 7 years now. He began in Product Support and then moved into Test for FrontPage during the Office XP release cycle. He is a test lead managing a team of testers who focus on XSLT rendering of SharePoint Data using SharePoint Designer tools. John is passionate about the evolving SharePoint platform and leveraging that platform to its fullest. In his "free time" John travels the world presenting at conferences, managing his wife's jewelry Web site built on SharePoint technologies, and trying to teach his 3 year old daughter how to use System.XML to her advantage.

Highlights
* Learn how to build a Workflow in SharePoint Designer that leverages custom actions from Visual Studio.
* Create and modify new layout pages and customize them in SharePoint Designer.
* Customize the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) files used in SharePoint to create a custom branded site.
* Build Master Pages from scratch so that layout pages and CSS files can be used across your site.
* Develop custom business applications with multiple data views.

Level: Beginner to Advanced | Running Time: 9 Hrs
Description: Explore the countless possibilities of SharePoint Designer 2007. In this video series John Jansen teaches you to build very simple or incredibly complex business solutions on the SharePoint platform. Learn about Master Pages, how to modify Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in SharePoint Designer, and how to integrate Visual Studio with custom Web part deployment and workflow actions.

* Part 1 - Solution Administrator

Lesson 1: INTEGRATING VISUAL STUDIO (30 min)
1. Creating the Solution
2. Creating Event Handlers
3. Editing the Solution .XML
4. Packaging & Deployment
5. Creating a Workflow Action
6. Modifying the Send Activity Alert
7. Making the Workflow Available
8. Creating a New Site

Lesson 2: USING THE DATA VIEW DASHBOARD (25 min)
1. Changing a List View Web Part to a Data View
2. Adding a Data View Using SQL Data Source
3. Modifying a View via Data Source Details
4. Modifying a View Using Web Part Connections
5. Adding a New Data View Web Part for Editing

Lesson 3: CREATING THE BEST WORKFLOW (12 min)
1. Creating a New Workflow
2. Adding a New Step to the Workflow
3. Adding an Approval Alert

Lesson 4: APPLYING LAYOUT CHANGES (21 min)
1. Modifying the HTML of the Web Part Zones
2. Add Web Parts to the Web Part Zones & Modify Them
3. Changing the CSS
4. Customizing the List View Page
5. Changing the List Properties for a New Form
6. Final Comments

* Part 2 - Tips & Tricks

Lesson 1: USING TASK PANES (16 min)
1. Explaining Tag & CSS Properties
2. Explaining Manage Styles & Attach Styles
3. Using Data Source Library & Data Source Details
4. Checking Accessibility, Hyperlinks & CSS Reports

Lesson 2: SETTING A CLIENT CONFIGURATION (6 min)
1. Optimizing the Task Panes Layout
2. Customizing Toolbars

Lesson 3: WORKING WITH CODE VIEW (32 min)
1. Creating Code Snippets
2. Modifying Web Part Properties
3. Navigating in Code View
4. Correcting Errors in Code View
5. Editing ASP.net Controls
6. Working with Code Hyperlinks
7. Working with Code Formatting Options
8. Final Comments

* Part 3 - Web Content Management

Lesson 1: APPLYING CONTRIBUTOR SETTINGS (8 min)
1. Creating New Group Permissions
2. Setting Permission Limits

Lesson 2: CORPORATE PORTAL BRANDING (16 min)
1. Moving the Search Area
2. Moving the Site Actions Control
3. Modifying the Welcome Control
4. Replacing the Site Logo
5. Creating a New Content Placeholder inside a Div

Lesson 3: CREATING A NEW PAGE LAYOUT (26 min)
1. Creating Content Type & New Layout Pages
2. Inserting a Simple Table
3. Inserting Content Fields
4. Modifying CSS in a Layout Page
5. Finalizing the Default Master
6. Creating New Pages from Layout Pages
7. Editing a New Page

Lesson 4: CREATING A TRACKING APPLICATION (42 min)
1. Creating the Database Back-end
2. Creating a Custom Master Page
3. Modifying a CSS Layout
4. Creating a Linked Data Source
5. Creating a Tracking Workflow
6. Filtering a Custom Data View
7. Creating a Custom Entry Form
8. Final Comments & Credits

* Part 4 - Dashboards, Themes & MasterPages

Lesson 1: BUILDING A DASHBOARD (89 min)
1. Creating a Site & a New Page
2. Modifying the Page Layout
3. Conguring the Toolbox
4. Creating a UserControl
5. Exporting the UserControl
6. Creating a Project in Visual Studio®
7. Signing the Assembly
8. Adding Events to the Control
9. Modifying the UserControl for the CodeBehind
10. Conguring the Application
11. Adding the Control to the Dashboard
12. Adding a Data Source Control to the Site
13. Modifying Fields in GridView
14. Creating a Hyperlink
15. Creating a Data View
16. Modifying the Data Source
17. Troubleshooting Errors in the UserControl

Lesson 2: CREATING A NEW THEME (46 min)
1. Modifying the Navigation
2. Inserting a Custom Logo
3. Modifying Theme Resources
4. Understanding Selectors
5. Understanding How Styles Cascade
6. Understanding Theme Basics
7. Modifying the Appropriate Class
8. Creating a Preview Image

Lesson 3: MAKING MASTERPAGES (64 min)
1. Understanding MasterPages
2. Adding Links to the MasterPage
3. Creating a Copyright Notice
4. Starting from Scratch to Make Dramatic Changes
5. Adding Basic Content
6. Adding Table Structure
7. Inserting a Site Actions Control
8. Adding a Web Part Toolpane
9. Understanding Minimum Placeholders
10. Adding a Splash Screen
11. Inserting a Custom Style Tag
12. Inserting an ASP Menu Control
13. Final Comments

* Part 5 - Targeted SharePoint Applic.

Lesson 1: INFOPATH & CUSTOM WORKFLOWS (46 min)
1. Designing a Form
2. Publishing a Content Type
3. Creating a Form Library
4. Setting the Default Content Type
5. Creating a Workflow Project
6. Adding Code Fixes
7. Creating a New Class
8. Adding Global Variables
9. Adding Global Properties
10. Adding Execute Code
11. Adding Send Email Code
12. Adding Group Task Code
13. Deploying the Custom Workflow
14. Adding a Workflow to SharePoint
15. Accessing Custom Workflows
16. Activating the Workflow

Lesson 2: VIEWING FORM LIBRARIES (47 min)
1. Creating a Simple InfoPath Form
2. Understanding XXLT
3. Inserting Data Views
4. Adding Conditional Formatting to a View
5. Inserting a View of the Form Library
6. Leveraging Share XXLT
7. Creating a Master Details View
8. Creating a Data View Parameter
9. Creating Dynamic Hyperlinks
10. Finalizing the Applications
11. Final Comments & Credits

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