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Table of Contents

Overview

• SharePoint Designer Overview

  SharePoint Designer can be used in a WSS or MOSS environment to perform robust customizations to look and feel, and content for the site. This video provides an overview to Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007.

SharePoint Customizations

• Create a SharePoint Site using SharePoint Designer

  Learn how to create SharePoint Sites using SharePoint Designer. Also, this video shows how to create an Empty Web Site - site without a SharePoint Template applied to it and then letting the end user apply the template through the browser.

• Backup and Restore Sites using SharePoint Designer

  This video shows how entire SharePoint Sites can be backed up from one location and then restored at another location using SharePoint Designer 2007.

• Delete a SharePoint Site using SharePoint Designer

  This screencast shows how you can delete a SharePoint site within SharePoint Designer. It also points out some limitations and the type of sites you cannot delete with SharePoint Designer.

• Show Quick Launch bar on pages using SharePoint Designer

  Web Part pages do not show the Quick Launch bar by default. This can be really confusing to end users who are used to the convenience of navigating using the Quick Launch bar. You can use SharePoint Designer to override this setting and show the Quick Launch bar on a Web Part page.

• Create and Manage Web Part Zones using SharePoint Designer

  Properties of existing Web Part zones can be managed and new Web Part zones can be created using SharePoint Designer. This video shows how you change the orientation of web parts in a zone and how you can lock down various properties of web part zones.

• Add Web Parts and Modify Web Part properties using SharePoint Designer

  Web parts can be added through the browser or through SharePoint Designer. However, using SharePoint Designer, you can also add web parts outside of a zone thus locking them down on a page. This video shows how to accomplish that and work with other web part properties.

• Hide Lists or Libraries from end users using SharePoint Designer

  Lists and libraries can be hidden from end users using SharePoint Designer. This does not secure the list or library, but just makes it invisible so that end users are unable to navigate to it.

Designing Workflows

• Introduction to SharePoint Designer Workflows

  This video provides an explanation as to when SharePoint Designer workflows should be used and then it demonstrates creating a workflow in SharePoint Designer.

• Creating Powerful Workflows using SharePoint Designer 2007

  SharePoint Designer comes with the facility to create really powerful workflows using the Workflow Designer utility. This video shows how to create Workflows on any list or library in your site.

• Create a Powerful SharePoint Designer Workflow - Part 1

  Resource Provisioning Process workflow - created using SharePoint Designer Workflow and an InfoPath form published to a form library. Part 1 - Attach the workflow to the Form Library and collect data from users

• Create a Powerful SharePoint Designer Workflow - Part 2

  Resource Provisioning Process workflow - created using SharePoint Designer Workflow and an InfoPath form published to a form library. Part 2 - Change Resource Provisioning request status in the Workflow depending on data collected from a Manager.

• Create a Powerful SharePoint Designer Workflow - Part 3

  Resource Provisioning Process workflow - created using SharePoint Designer Workflow and an InfoPath form published to a form library. Part 3 - In the SPD workflow, create items in a list and assign Resource Provisioning tasks to the resource manager

• Create a Powerful SharePoint Designer Workflow - Part 4

  Resource Provisioning Process workflow - created using SharePoint Designer Workflow and an InfoPath form published to a form library. Part 4 - Send end user confirmation emails using the SPD workflow and test out the complete form and workflow functionality.

• Create a SharePoint Designer Workflow for a Custom List

  SharePoint Designer Workflows can be easily attached to custom lists in SharePoint and use the data in that list within the workflow. A bunch of different actions/activities are portrayed in this workflow. Also shown is the method for storing email text in a variable that can be reused as needed.

Customizing List View web parts

• Customize List View Web Parts using SharePoint Designer

  List View web parts (LVWP) are used to show list data on SharePoint site pages. These can be customized using the browser or through SharePoint Designer. SharePoint Designer customizations to List View Web Parts are far more powerful than doing it through the browser. This video shows how you can thoroughly customize a LVWP to implement a customized view, searching capability and connecting one LVWP to another one on a different page.

• Customizing List View Form pages

  Views of Lists that come out of the box are limited in nature. This video shows how the Data View web part in SharePoint Designer can be used to customize List View pages.

Use Data View web part to manage SharePoint and external Data

• Report on SharePoint List data using Data View Web Part

  SharePoint Designer comes with a powerful web part called Data View. Use Data View to show list data from a SharePoint site. Also shown is how to connect multiple lists to create a data management solution.

• Content Management using Data View Web Part

  Use Data View web part to fetch data from various sources. Not just that, but also see how you can write back data to its original source using the Data Form functionality within this web part.

• Manage and manipulate List data using Data View in SharePoint Designer

  Use the Data View web part in SharePoint Designer to manage multiple list content. Connecting information from one list to another, passing parameters, editing data back in the list and more is covered in this video.

• Creating a Quote of the Day web part using Data View

  This video shows how the Data View web part in SharePoint Designer can be used to create a Quote of the Day web part that can be driven off automatically using a list on the SharePoint site.

• Customer Order Management Application using Data View in SharePoint Designer

  Use the Data View web part in SharePoint Designer to manage multiple list content. Connecting information from one list to another, passing parameters, editing data back in the list and more is covered in this video.

• Connect to data in your Database using Data View

  In this video, Data View web part (which comes with SharePoint Designer) is used to fetch data from Database tables. The data is then formatted using conditional formatting. Web Part connections are created from one web part to another to create a parent/child relationship of the information. Even more importantly, in this screencast, it is shown how you can even edit your data in your database using the Data View web part. Lastly, a Master Page is attached to the pages to give them the site's look and feel. This is all done without coding!

• Attach a SharePoint Designer Workflow to a Data View web part

  This video demonstrates how you can attach a SharePoint Designer Workflow to a Data View web part. Doing this will let you execute a workflow on any item being displayed in the Data View web part.

SharePoint Designer Integration with InfoPath

• Automate Business Processes using InfoPath forms and SharePoint Designer Workflows

  In this video, a Microsoft Word form is first converted to an InfoPath form then the InfoPath form is enhanced with Validation, Conditional Formatting and Rules to fetch data from a SharePoint list. Subsequently, the form is published to the Forms Server in SharePoint. Lastly, a workflow is created using SharePoint Designer to automate the processing of the form.