Training description
Building Applications and Workflows with SharePoint® Designer 2010: Hands-On LT1505E 
Target audience
- Anyone responsible for creating, building or managing SharePoint 2010 sites.
Course objective
- SharePoint Designer 2010 allows organisations to extend the capabilities of SharePoint beyond
- out-of-the-box functionality to build powerful data-driven pages, composite applications and workflows.
- This course provides the knowledge and skills necessary to maximise SharePoint without the need to write
- application-level code.
- You Will Learn How To
- Build custom SharePoint business solutions with SharePoint Designer 2010
- Leverage SharePoint Designer 2010 features to extend SharePoint sites
- Aggregate SharePoint lists and integrate data from multiple sources to build robust site dashboards
- Automate complex business processes with SharePoint workflows
- Create forms and capture data for workflows and data storage
- Migrate your custom solution to production
Requirements
- Basic knowledge of SharePoint site structure at the level of Course 1501, "SharePoint® 2010 Technologies: A Comprehensive
- Hands-On Introduction", or experience with a previous version of SharePoint, is assumed.
Course content
- SharePoint 2010 Introduction
- Overview of SharePoint technologies
- Comparing and contrasting SharePoint Foundation with SharePoint Server
- Setting SharePoint Designer restrictions and Central Administration
- Establishing metadata fields with document sets, internal and external Content Types
- Exploring Web applications and site collections
- Developing a business case study
- Utilising lists, libraries and Web Parts
- Setting standards with site templates
- Customising Web Sites with SharePoint Designer 2010
- Exploring new features in SharePoint 2010
- Navigating through the site with the Ribbon interface
- Leveraging lists and content type editors
- Creating reusable site assets
- Modifying SharePoint sites
- Editing Content and Master pages
- Applying global changes via the 14 Hive
- Adding Web Parts and customising Web Part Zones
- Displaying Information with Data Views
- Creating data views and aggregation
- Displaying list data using the Data View Web Part
- Enabling browser-based editing with the XSLT List View Web Part
- Aggregating information in a data view
- Linking and merging data sources
- Accessing external lists
- Data formatting for usability
- Formatting using XSLT
- Applying conditional formatting to highlight data
- Adding custom fields and customising data views
- Connecting to External Data Sources
- Working with relational data
- Leveraging Oracle and SQL Server data
- Retrieving data via stored procedures and views
- Merging data to create a dashboard
- Gathering XML data sources
- Consuming Web Services and server-side scripts
- Connecting to REST feeds
- Business Connectivity Services (BCS)
- Utilising external content types
- Centralising security through BCS
- Automating Business Processes with Workflow
- Analysing business requirements
- Establishing business rules through branching logic
- Executing workflows in parallel and serial
- Identifying lists required in the workflow process
- Assigning tasks to participants
- Building workflows
- Creating workflow actions and steps
- Controlling execution with variables, forms and form data
- Triggering workflows with changes, additions and conditions
- Leveraging Visio to build workflows
- Exporting workflows to Visual Studio for added flexibility
- Monitoring workflow activity
- Tracking workflow status through Association Columns
- Handling errors and logging events
- Refining Web Applications with SharePoint Designer Components
- Accessing databases
- Adding, deleting and updating data
- Validating user input
- Displaying one-to-many relationships
- Implementing InfoPath
- Generating forms from templates
- Creating custom forms
- Starting WorkFlows from InfoPath
- Migrating to Production
- Analysing options for migration
- Importing and exporting components
- Scripting migration with PowerShell
- Managing deployment
- Setting quotas and viewing utilisation reports
- Backing up and restoring a SharePoint site
Notes
- Throughout an in-depth case study, you gain extensive hands-on experience creating SharePoint sites with SharePoint Designer 2010. Exercises include:
- Enhancing site functionality by editing content and master pages
- Creating data views with custom formatting
- Building a dashboard with data from Oracle and SQL Server utilising the XSLT List View Web Part
- Streamlining tasks with workflow
- Building reusable workflows
- Leveraging external content types
- Deploying a solution across servers
Duration
4 Days
