SharePoint Designer Tutorial: Working with SharePoint Websites

Working with SharePoint Websites

Mike Poole

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2008
• eBook ISBN: 9781847194435
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Information Technology
• Index: Computer Science

This book takes you through the development of a SharePoint site for a wine business. The development involves adding features to the site using SharePoint Designer, and for each of these features you will find screenshots and easy to follow instructions. This book is ideal for people new to SharePoint Designer who need to put together a working SharePoint site as quickly as possible. No experience of SharePoint Designer is expected, and no skill with creating SharePoint sites is assumed.

SharePoint Designer Tutorial

Working with SharePoint Websites

Mike Poole

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Table of Contents

SharePoint Designer Tutorial

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

Preface

What This Book Covers

What You Need for This Book

Who This Book is For

Conventions

Reader Feedback

Customer Support

Downloading the Example Code for the Book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Introduction to SharePoint

What is SharePoint?

Why Choose SharePoint Designer?

What is SharePoint Designer?

Installing SharePoint Designer

Connecting to an Existing SharePoint Site

Further Information

Summary

2. SharePoint Designer and its Environment

Development Tool Options

Tour of the Environment

Task Panes

Organizing Our Task Panes

Code View

The Button Bar

The Status Bar

Summary

3. Adding Content and Tables

The Wine Company

Creating a New Site

Creating Our First Page

Adding and Formatting Text

Previewing Our Page

Creating Hyperlinks

Adding Images

Creating Tables

Table and Cell Properties

Layout Tables

Divs versus Tables

Organizing Our Files

Publishing Our Site

Viewing Our Page

Authorization

Editing Existing Sites

Summary

4. Formatting Pages

The Wine Company Website

Creating Our Site

Creating a New Site

Creating Our Homepage

Publishing Our Site

Formatting Our Homepage

Using Layers

Adding an Image to Our Layer

Publishing Images

Renaming Our Styles

Cascading Style Sheets

Editing Styles

Master Pages

Where Are Our Master Pages Stored?

Creating a Master Page

Editing Our Master Page

Adding a Content Region

Saving Our Master Page

Attaching Our Master Page to an Existing Page

Creating a New Page Using a Master Page

Modifying the Master Page

Attaching Our StyleSheet to Our Master Page

Summary

5. Collaborating with Other Contributors

Contributor Mode

Server-Based Sites versus Disk-Based Sites

Enabling Contributor Settings

Contributor Groups

Region Types

Setting Up Contribution on Our Master Page

The Contributor's Experience

Workflows

Workflow Designer

Workflows and Lists

Defining New Workflows

Summary

6. Collecting Data

Data Sources

Creating Our XML Data Source

Creating a Data View

Adding and Deleting Records

InfoPath

Summary

7. Displaying Data

Formatting the Data View

Direct Formatting

CSS Formatting

Conditional Formatting

Formatting Numbers

Filtering Data

Using Formulae

Sorting Data

Allowing Users to Sort the Data

Paging

Summary

8. Adding Web Parts

What Are Web Parts?

Web Part Zones

Inserting a Web Part Zone

Inserting a Web Part

Adding Graphs

Summary

9. Using ASP.NET Controls

ASP.NET Controls

Standard Controls

Data Controls

Validation Controls

Navigation Controls

Login Controls

Adding a Simple Control

The Menu Control

The Calendar Control

Editing the web.config File

Validating Our Forms

Creating a Login Feature

Configuring SQL Server

Adding Our First User

Adding a New Virtual Server

Adding a Host Header

Adding an A Record

Extending the Virtual Server

Using Visual Studio's Web Site Administration Tool

Changing the Authentication Provider

Return to the web.config File

Additional Configuration Tweaks

Summary

10. Integrating with Exchange

Introduction to Outlook Web Access Web Parts

Viewing the Outlook Web Access Web Parts

Enabling Outlook Web Access

Enabling Forms-Based Authentication

Integrating the My Tasks Web Part

Troubleshooting the Error Messages

Summary

11. Search Tools

Federated Searching

Search Web Parts

Using the Search Web Parts

Hard-Coding Results

Other SharePoint Search Solutions

Search Center

Search Server 2008

Search Term Vocabulary

Summary

Index

SharePoint Designer Tutorial

Working with SharePoint Websites

Copyright © 2008 Packt Publishing

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First published: July 2008

Production Reference: 1100708

Published by Packt Publishing Ltd.

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Birmingham, B27 6PA, UK.

ISBN 978-1-847194-42-8

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Cover Image by Vinayak Chittar (<[email protected]>)

Credits

Author

Mike Poole

Reviewer

John Jansen

Senior Acquisition Editor

Douglas Paterson

Development Editor

Ved Prakash Jha

Technical Editor

Dhiraj Bellani

Editorial Team Leader

Mithil Kulkarni

Project Manager

Abhijeet Deobhakta

Project Coordinator

Lata Basantani

Indexer

Hemangini Bari

Proofreader

Chris Smith

Production Coordinator

Aparna Bhagat

Cover Work

Aparna Bhagat

About the Author

Mike Poole owns and runs 2F3 Internet, which he established in 1997 to specialize in providing Microsoft-based web development and IT training.

He has received a much acclaim for his web development from many satisfied customers including the BBC, British Medical Association, Microsoft, and six different agencies of the Scottish Government. His work has won him awards from Scottish Enterprise (winner ...

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