Course Description
Now that you know how to create customized SharePoint sites matching your branding, you may want to extend your sites to include more functionality. With SharePoint Designer, you can extend your sites more easily than before.

Course Objective: You will use SharePoint Designer to extend and customize existing SharePoint sites.

 

Prerequisites: It is recommended that the student complete the Microsoft® SharePoint® Designer 2007: Level 1 course prior to this course.

 

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Performance-Based Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• work with ASP.NET forms.
• work with Data Sources.
• use SharePoint templates to update existing sites and create new templates from these changes.
• learn some advanced data integration techniques.
• customize existing workflows.
• learn about administration tools in SharePoint Designer 2007.

 

 

Course Content

Lesson 1: Working with ASP.NET Forms
Topic 1A: Create an ASP.NET Form
Topic 1B: Modify Form Control Properties
Topic 1C: Validate Inputs
Topic 1D: Customize an Interactive Button

Lesson 2: Integrate Data Sources
Topic 2A: Implementing Data Sources and Displaying Data in Data Views
Topic 2B: Access a Data Source
Topic 2C: Import Data into a Data View
Topic 2D: Update the Data View Presentation
Topic 2E: Work with the Data View Commands

Lesson 3: Using SharePoint Site Templates
Topic 3A: Open an Existing Subsite and Create a New Web Page from an Existing Template
Topic 3B: Save a Customized Page
Topic 3C: Revert a Customized Page

Topic 3D: Save a Customized Site as a SharePoint Site Template

Lesson 4: Advanced Data Integration Using SharePoint Designer 2007
Topic 4A: Move Data View Web Parts to Different Web Part Zones
Topic 4B: Displaying Data from a Linked Data Source in a Data View
Topic 4C: Reference and Consume a Web Service
Topic 4D: Display XML Data with XSLT

Lesson 5: Update Workflows Using SharePoint Designer 2007
Topic 5A: Opening and Modifying an Existing Workflow
Topic 5B: Deploy and Test the Custom Workflow

Lesson 6: Administering a SharePoint Site Using SharePoint Designer 2007
Topic 6A: Configure Contributor Settings
Topic 6B: Generate Usability Reports              
Topic 6C: Optimize the HTML for a SharePoint Site
Topic 6D: Spell Check a SharePoint Site
Topic 6E: Back Up and Restore a SharePoint Site
Topic 6F: Migrating a SharePoint Site