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Creating and Modifying Sites with Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007

Course Length: 2 Days

Overview:
This two-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to create and modify sites using Microsoft's SharePoint Designer 2007.

Prerequisites:
General familiarity with the web and web technologies.

Lesson 1: Getting Started

• The SharePoint Designer workspace
• Open a SharePoint Team Site
• File Types: ASPX vs. HTML

Lesson 2: Web Sites

• Create a new SharePoint Team Site with SharePoint Designer 2007
• Create a SharePoint Workspace
• Explore Other SharePoint Templates

Lesson 3: Explore Client-Side Features

• Create an HTML Page
• Explore basic formatting and hyperlink creation
• Insert and modify Images
• Add Javascript actions
• Create an Image Rollover
• Review Cascading Style Sheets use with basic HTML and ASPX Pages

Lesson 4: Creating and Modifying Team Site Pages

• Modify the Default Page
• Modify a Sharepoint List Page
• Create a new List View
• Create a brand new Sharepoint List

Lesson 5: Create new ASPX Web Part Pages

• Add HTML Tables to hold Web Part Zones
• Add the Web Part Zones
• Add Web Parts to the ASPX page.

Lesson 6: Master Pages

• Carefully alter the default Sharepoint Master Page
• Create a new Master Page and attach a style sheet to it.
• Apply the Master Page to your new ASPX page.
• Explore client-side 'Dynamic Web Templates' for HTML Pages.

Lesson 7: QuickBar Links & Pages

• Create a Header Page for use on the Team Site Quick Launch
• Create a new Section in SharePoint using your Header, ASPX & HTML Pages.
• Preview in Sharepoint and test the new links.

Lesson 8: Design Workflows

• Introduction to workflows
• Create a workflow/Use the Workflow Designer
• Create rules that associate conditions and actions with items in SharePoint lists and libraries
• Test to ensure that changes to items in lists or libraries trigger actions in the workflow.
• Add fields in a document library to use in the workflow
• Delete or remove a workflow

Lesson 9 Data Views

• Connect to a SQL server Data Source
• Create a Data View
• Sort and filter data in a Data View
• Create and format a Data display page; Recordset Paging

Lesson 10: More Data - Modification

• Insert a Data View as a form
• Set form properties
• Edit, delete and insert records
• Explore creating and modifying XML data views

Lesson 11: SharePoint Designer - Permissions and Contributor Settings

• Explore SharePoint Designer Contributor Settings and their relation to SharePoint Permissions
• Create custom Contributor settings to prevent a test user from adding an image to a page.

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