Jan Tielens, Microsoft

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THE MANY SHADES OF SHAREPOINT CUSTOMIZATIONS

SharePoint DesignerOffice Clients Visual StudioWeb Browser

Capabilities

Agility

POSITIONING THE SHAREPOINT DESIGNER• Target Audiences:

• Site Owners

• Professional Developers

• Skills required:

• Basic SharePoint skills

• SharePoint Designer skills

• Easy, quick, customizations:

• Look-and-feel, List & Library design, Workflow, BCS, …

• Think about re-usability

WHY HAS THE SHAREPOINT DESIGNER A BAD NAME?

NEW USER EXPERIENCE• SharePoint artifact-centric navigation

• Gallery Page

• Summary Page

• Edit Page

• Fluent UI Integration

• Breadcrumb

• Navigation Bar

VIEWS & FORMS• XSLT List View Web Part

• Format from Ribbon

• Add custom action to list or ribbon

• Infopath form for New Item, View Item, Edit Item

IMPROVED WORKFLOW• Reusable declarative workflow templates

• List, Reusable, Site

• Import/Export workflows to Visio

• Nested If/Then/Else

• Associate with Content Type

• Edit Approval/Feedback/Signature workflows

• Impersonation Approval (content author vs. approver)

• Workflow visualizations

EXTERNAL CONTENT TYPES & BCS

• ECT – Formerly Business Data Entity

• External Lists – created from ECT

• Business Data Column from ECT

• Access External Lists in Outlook/Workspace

ADMINISTRATION• Only Site Collection Admins can

• customize pages, master pages and page layouts

• Access All Files

• Edit pages in Advanced Mode

• Versioning for Site Pages

• No “un-ghosting” or customizing pages so upgrade is easier

RESOURCES• http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint-designer-help/whats-new-in-sharepoint-desig

ner-2010-HA010370728.aspx

• http://sharepoint-nirvana.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=153:comparison-between-sp-designer-2007-a-sp-designer-2010&catid=99:sharepoint-designer

• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179083.aspx

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