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SharePoint 2007 Designer: Level 2

Microsoft® SharePoint® Designer 2007: Level 2

One day; Instructor-Led

Course Description

Now that you know how to create customized SharePoint sites matching your branding, you may want to extend your sites to include more functionality. With SharePoint Designer, you can extend your sites more easily than before.

Course Objective

You will use SharePoint Designer to extend and customize existing SharePoint sites.

Target Student

This course is intended for entry-level SharePoint solution developers who are currently capable of creating basic SharePoint sites using the out-of-the-box functionality provided by the built-in SharePoint Designer templates, and who now want to extend or create SharePoint sites with functionality by incorporating server web controls, data controls, customized workflows, and administration.

Prerequisites

It is recommended that the student complete the Microsoft® SharePoint® Designer 2007: Level 1 course prior to this course. Performance-Based Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Work with ASP.NET forms.
• Work with Data Sources.
• Use SharePoint templates to update existing sites and create new templates from these changes.
• Learn some advanced data integration techniques.
• Customize existing workflows.
• Learn about administration tools in SharePoint Designer 2007.

Course Outline

Lesson 1: Working with ASP.NET Forms

• Create an ASP.NET Form
• Modify Form Control Properties
• Validate Inputs
• Customize an Interactive Button

Lesson 2: Integrate Data Sources

• Implementing Data Sources and Displaying Data in Data Views
• Access a Data Source
• Import Data into a Data View
• Update the Data View Presentation
• Work with the Data View Commands

Lesson 3: Using SharePoint Site Templates

• Open an Existing Subsite and Create a New Web Page from an Existing Template
• Save a Customized Page
• Revert a Customized Page
• Save a Customized Site as a SharePoint Site Template

Lesson 4: Advanced Data Integration Using SharePoint Designer 2007

• Move Data View Web Parts to Different Web Part Zones
• Displaying Data from a Linked Data Source in a Data View
• Reference and Consume a Web Service
• Display XML Data with XSLT

Lesson 5: Update Workflows Using SharePoint Designer 2007

• Opening and Modifying an Existing Workflow
• Deploy and Test the Custom Workflow

Lesson 6: Administering a SharePoint Site Using SharePoint Designer 2007

• Configure Contributor Settings
• Generate Usability Reports
• Optimize the HTML for a SharePoint Site
• Spell Check a SharePoint Site
• Back Up and Restore a SharePoint Site
• Migrating a SharePoint Site