50354: SharePoint 2010 SharePoint Designer
Two days—Instructor-led

About this Course

Upgrade your skills to SharePoint Designer 2010!

Audience Profile

Anyone that has been and will be working with SharePoint Designer to make changes to SharePoint sites.


What you will Learn:

How to navigate and use the new Ribbon interface, learn what new things you can do from Designer, what changes have been made to the actions and conditions of workflows, how to build external content types, and how to modify Out Of the Box Workflows.


Prerequisites

Before attending this course, students must have:

Understanding of SharePoint site elements (Lists, Libraries, Content Types, etc)


Course Outline


o Overview
o 2010 Changes

Lesson: Changes

• Facts
• List of 2010 Changes
• Why Use Designer?

o Designer Interface

Lesson: Designer Interface

• Introduction
• Design Goals
• UI Improvements
• Ribbon
• Security

   Lab: SharePoint Designer Interface
• Explore new interface of SharePoint Designer
• Review new work areas of Designer
• Browse Site Pages
• Browse Master Pages
• Browse Lists and Libraries
• Browse Workflows
• Browse Content Types
• Browse Data Sources
• Browse Entities
• Explore Site Structure

   Lab: SharePoint Designer (Basics)
• Create a new site
• Create a new page
• Create a new master page
• Attach a master page
• Create a list
• Change list settings
• Create Content Type
• Create/Modify CSS

   Lab: SharePoint Designer (Basics)
• Check-In/Check-Out
• Add Web Parts
• Add Web Part Zone
• Adding Images (_images directory)
• Reset to Site Definition

o Data Views

   Lesson: DataSources and DataViews

• Data Views
• Data Sources
• Data Parameters
• Linked Data Sources

   Lab: DataViews
• Create/Manage Data Views
• Create/Manage Data Sources
• Merge Two Data Sources
• Link Two Data Sources
• Data View Parameters

o External Content Types

Lesson: Business Connectivity Services

• What is BCS?
• External Content Types
• External Lists
• External List Operations
• Associations and Search

   Lab: External Content Types
• Explore External Content Types
• Create a new External Content Type
• Create an External List

o Workflows

Lesson: Workflows

• Out of Box Workflows
• Out of Box Conditions
• Out of Box Actions
• Site/Global Workflows
• External Data

   Lab: BuiltInActivities (2007)
• Use one of each Built-In Activity (2007)

  Lab: BuiltInActivities (2010)
• Use one of each Built-In Activity (2010)

  Lab: LoopingWorkflow
• Create a looping set of workflows

  Lab: ReusableWorkflows
• Create Reusable Workflows (Site/Global)
• Export a workflow to Visio
• Import a workflow from Visio
• Save as Template

  Lab: ModifyOOBWorkflow
• Modify Out Of Box Workflows