Microsoft SharePoint Designer

SharePoint Designer

Presented by Andrew Eisler

Lecturer, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of

Central Floridahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_United_States_university_campuses_by_enrollment

What is SharePoint Designer 2007?

Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 is a software application that allows the end user to quickly and effectively create web pages in a similar way that its predecessor FrontPage had done.

Select SharePoint Designer if you are upgrading from FrontPage:

Familiarity: SharePoint Designer is much closer to FrontPage than Expression Web is.

Availability: SharePoint Designer is readily available through most Microsoft Campus Agreements.

Suitability: SharePoint Designer is built for simple Web page development; Expression Web for professional Website development.

Source: http://cstl.semo.edu/institute/2008Winter/MLR/Sharepoint.htm

Feature ComparisonFeature FrontPage SharePoint

Web Components √ √

Themes √

Shared Borders √

Database √ √

Marquee √ √

Hoover Buttons √ √

Hit Control √ √

Navigation Bars √ √

Insert Maps √ √

Clean HTML √

Source: http://cstl.semo.edu/institute/2008Winter/MLR/Sharepoint.htm

What is SharePoint Designer 2007?

SharePoint Designer utilizes the what you see is what you get, (WYSIWYG) approach, along with an ability to be used in a secure, collaborative, business environment via the Internet.

This makes Designer 2007 a practical choice for any business, and therefore, well worth teaching in the 2 and 4 year colleges and universities.

What is SharePoint Designer 2007?

Designer 2007 creates web sites and applications by using Designer 2007 Master Pages and Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) technologies.

Designer 2007 also utilizes Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML) code and cascading style sheets to build SharePoint 2007 sites that meets any business (or personal) needs.

Reasons to Switch:

Better HTML code Better look and feel (interface) Better CSS support Better support for other Office documents Move into the pipeline for future enhancements It is available on request for your office computer Because Microsoft says so!

The SharePoint Technologies

The SharePoint technologies consist of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS), which is installed with Windows Server 2003 SP1, or in the Windows Server 2008 operating systems.

You can download WSS 3.0 from the Windows Download Center on the Internet at the following site.

http://download.microsoft.com

Windows SharePoint Services (WSS)

The SharePoint Technologies

Other components of the SharePoint technologies include the software applications SharePoint Designer 2007 and SharePoint Server 2007 (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server – also referred to as MOSS).

Good site for MOSS installation:

http://www.rodneyviana.com/

The SharePoint Technologies

The last feature included in the SharePoint technologies is Microsoft’s latest version of the .NET Framework.

Windows Workflow Foundation, a key feature of SharePoint, is part of the .NET Framework.

The .NET Framework can also be downloaded from the Microsoft Download Center

SharePoint Designer 2007 Task Panes

One of the major changes in Designer 2007 from the other Microsoft Office applications is the prolific use of task panes in the design environment.

Task panes allow end users easy access to the tools that they are most likely to use.

SharePoint Designer Task Pane View

SharePoint Designer addresses four important instances for its end users

First, Designer allows for customization of its SharePoint sites.

Customization means the end user can create the site to have a look and feel that they believe is appropriate for that particular site.

Source: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/HA102199841033.aspx

Customization

With more than 260,000 members in over 171 countries, PMI is the leading membership association for the project management profession.

PMI is actively engaged in advocacy for the profession, setting professional standards, conducting research and providing access to a wealth of information and resources.

PMI also promotes career and professional development and offers certification, networking and community involvement opportunities.

Customization

http://www.pmi.org/Pages/default.aspx

Customization

Customizing has a distinct advantage over many webpage editing applications that provide templates.

For example, sites relying on templates usually result in seeing many sites on the Web that have the same look and theme.

Source: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/HA102199841033.aspx

SharePoint Designer addresses four important instances for its end users

Second, Designer’s workflow technology allows for an element of business logic to be incorporated into SharePoint applications.

Workflows are tasks that typically were associated with developers that were hired to program the workflow into an application.

Hiring developers is a very costly way of producing a workflow on a web site.

Source: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/HA102199841033.aspx

Workflows

Typical Workflow

Products List

Custom List of Reviewers

Priority List

Tasks List

Product Documentation – each document supports a product

Change Column: Product Documentation

Product Documentation: Deployment Requirements for Product D

Workflow Dashboard Hyperlink

Workflow Dashboard (2)

Workflow Chart

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/HA102564171033.aspx

New Workflow

Define your new workflow

Initiating a new field Priority – High, Normal, Low

Review your work

Workflow Status

Customization –the bottom line…

Customizing has a distinct advantage over many webpage editing applications that provide templates.

For example, sites relying on templates usually result in seeing many sites on the Web that have the same look and theme.

Source: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/HA102199841033.aspx

SharePoint Designer addresses four important instances for its end users

SharePoint Services has workflows built in by default as part of the SharePoint installation.

Workflows in short, will track tasks or action items that have been assigned within the organizational structure.

Workflows make it easy to see where bottlenecks are taking place, or where the assigned work is flowing smoothly, without incident or delay.

Source: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/HA102199841033.aspx

SharePoint Designer addresses four important instances for its end users

Third, you can build advanced SharePoint Designer applications without having to program or code by using the WYSIWYG no-code feature in Designer.

Source: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/HA102199841033.aspx

SharePoint Designer addresses four important instances for its end users

And lastly, end users can integrate Designer 2007 with Visual Studio to enable rapid deployment of site definitions on a SharePoint platform.

If you needed to create twenty departmental, or team sites, each site will have its own home page, instead of all twenty sites pointing to, and sharing one file, which would be the default.aspx file that is stored in the TEMPLATE folder of the web server (this is the common case when using asp.net).

Source: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/HA102199841033.aspx

My Site in Server 2007

Source: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/HA103507051033.aspx

SharePoint Designer Opening Screen

SharePoint Designer Split Screen View

Default code for a new XHTML page

XHTML Table, font style, and list

Completed XHTML Page

Demonstration

Let’s create a web page or pages using some of the SharePoint Designer 2007 functions….

Get real

Online SharePoint Demo Sites

Things to look for

Dynamic site menus – created from the contents of the document library that contains web part pages which are assigned to a menu item

Extensive use of the Data View Web Parts to display information from various data sources including Web Services and XML files like InfoPath, WordML, VirtualEarth and Amazon

ActiveX and Silverlight controls that can be seen in the demo's. http://silverlight.net/

Source: http://www.wssdemo.com/default.aspx

SharePoint Community Portal - http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/sharepoint/cks/uge/default.aspx

Community Kit for SharePoint - http://templates.wssdemo.com/community/default.aspx

AACC

The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) is the primary advocacy organization for the nation's community colleges.

The association represents almost 1,200 two-year, associate degree–granting institutions and more than 11 million students.

Source: http://www.wssdemo.com/Pages/websites.aspx

AACC - http://dev.aacc.nche.edu/Pages/default.aspx

Chicago Public Schools

Chicago Public Schools is the third largest school district in the United States.

The district covers 655 schools with a total of 408,601 students.

Chicago public schools - http://www.cps.edu/Pages/home.aspx

Fifteen

Fifteen is all about great food in fantastic restaurants offering young people the chance of a lifetime.

In the nearly five years since Jamie Oliver set up Fifteen, we have gone from strength to strength and become one of the world's best known social enterprises.

Built by http://www.contentandcode.com/

Fifteen - http://www.fifteen.net/Pages/default.aspx

National professional paintball league

The National Professional Paintball League (NPPL) is the #1 paintball tournament series and trade show in the United States and the preferred choice of players, teams, sponsors and spectators.

Its five premier tournaments each year include the top national paintball event in the country held on the beach at Huntington Beach, California as well as at four NFL stadiums around the country (2008 to include the stadiums for the Jacksonville Jaguars, Buffalo Bills, Houston Texans and San Diego Chargers).

NPPL events are held at professional venues with games played on professional turf.

This is a rich, content intensive site with lots of cool navigation.

National professional paintball league - http://www.nppl.com/Pages/default.aspx

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