SharePoint Designer 2007 Technical Information

 Microsoft SharePoint Designer Team Blog

a. Recent topics include:

· Associate an SPD workflow with a specific task list

· SharePoint Conference - Building a SharePoint Designer Mashup (Part 1)

· Filtering and Formatting with Date Values

· Modify the lengths of List Form Fields

· Issues with "Delay" activities in Workflow - Need your help!

 Office SharePoint Designer 2007 Step By Step, published by Microsoft Press

a. Highlights include:

· Create and manage SharePoint sites, including working with lists and libraries

· Work with collaboration features to create surveys, discussion boards, wikis, and blogs

· Customize your site with cascading style sheets, Web parts, and data sources

· Create workflows and applications with custom forms, templates, and dashboards to enhance your team’s productivity

· Work with Microsoft Office Excel® 2007, Access® 2007, InfoPath® 2007, and Outlook® 2007 in Windows SharePoint Services
Plus—two companion CDs featuring hands-on practice files from both books

 SharePoint Designer on Office Online:

a. The SharePoint Designer web site on Office Online has a number of interesting resources:

· Get SharePoint Designer training on your desktop: This is a set of 20 videos with end-users in mind and it covers all the scenarios of SharePoint Designer.

b. Topics include:

· Adding a page to a SharePoint site

· Contributor Settings
Creating a custom list data form

· Managing data sources
Enabling editing in Data Views

· Data View properties

· Web part connections

· Creating a workflow
Collecting data in a workflow

· Modify a master page

· Modify the default SharePoint content placeholders

· Creating pages from a master page

· Changing content page layouts

· Managing master pages

· Create a cascading style sheet

· Modifying Style Sheets

· Using the CSS task panes

· Creating Publishing Page Layouts

· Customizing a Publishing Page Layout

· Code snippets

· Demos: A six-part series on getting the most out of SharePoint Designer 2007: This six-part training demo series for power users provides information on how power users can get the most from Office SharePoint Designer 2007.

c. Topics include:

· Powerful user interface and design tools

· Customize SharePoint sites

· Create and modify layout pages

· Create and modify rules-based workflow applications

· Build composite no-code SharePoint applications

· Visual Studio integration

· SharePoint Designer 2007 Business Administrator Training: This video series for advanced users shows you how to quickly and easily build complex business solutions on the SharePoint platform.

d. Topics include:

· Integrating Visual Studio

· Using the Data View Dashboard

· Creating the best workflow

· Applying layout changes

Total Training Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 Video Series (9 hours)

a. Microsoft has partnered with Total Training to build a video series exploring in depth advanced features of SharePoint Designer in a very interactive manner. The scripts and recordings were jointly produced by the marketing and product teams at Microsoft.

b. Highlights include:

· Learn how to build a Workflow in SharePoint Designer that leverages custom actions from Visual Studio.

· Create and modify new layout pages and customize them in SharePoint Designer.

· Customize the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) files used in SharePoint to create a custom branded site.

· Build Master Pages from scratch so that layout pages and CSS files can be used across your site.

· Develop custom business applications with multiple data views.

 SharePoint Designer Developer Portal on MSDN

Topics include:

· SharePoint Designer 2007 Developer Reference

· How to: Create a Minimal Master Page

· Workflow Development Tools Comparison

· Workflow Development in Office SharePoint Designer

· How to: Customize the Content Query Web Part by using Custom Properties

· Building Collaborative Applications Without Code Using SharePoint Designer 2007