SharePoint 2010 Designer

The Course
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 customizations.

Who Should Attend
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.

Pre-Requisites
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.

INTRODUCTION TO WINDOWS SHAREPOINT DESIGNER 2010

SHAREPOINT DESIGNER BASICS
Understanding SharePoint designer 2010
Navigate within SharePoint Designer
Creating Sites
Using Task Panes
Controlling use of SharePoint Designer

CREATING SHAREPOINT SITES USING SHAREPOINT DESIGNER
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 AND 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

CREATING AND MODIFYING WEB PAGES
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