This three-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to become a top-notch SharePoint Designer  2007 Developer. From Master Pages to Dataviews to Form Libraries and Workflows, you will gain important insight into the internal workings of these development tools.  Every use of SharePoint Designer as a developer tool for SharePoint is investigated exhaustively.

Audience

This course is intended for experienced SharePoint developers and students and will guide them through the process of architecting and developing SharePoint Designer designs and customizations.

At Course Completion

After completing this course, students will be able to:

§ Use SharePoint Designer to create a SharePoint site that is customized and personalized to the end user

§ Create and run form based libaries 

§ Use SharePoint Designer to create powerful Wokflows in MOSS

Course Outline

How SharePoint Designer 2007 are used in MOSS
WSS and MOSS Sites
Design
Entry
Administration
Workflows

Working with SharePoint Designer
Importing and Exporting Your Site
Using Dynamic Web Templates
Using Code View
Understanding the Tag Properties Window
Using pre-defined HTML Tags
Publishing the Site

SharePoint Designer Master Pages and Stylesheets
Creating a Master Page
Setting an Existing Page as Master
Editing Master Pages
Removing the Master Page
What are CSS Sheets?
Attaching a Style Sheet
Opening a Style Sheet
Using the Tag Properties Window with CSS Styles

SharePoint Designer Macros
Macros
Visual Basic Editor
Script Editor

SharePoint Designer Elements
Creating a Top Links Bar
Creating a Quick Launch Bar
Using a Data Source
Advanced Data Source Commands
Web Components
ASP.NET Components
SharePoint Components
Inserting Interactive Buttons

SharePoint Designer Behaviors and Data Manipulation
Behaviors
DataView Control (viewing Data)
Form Control (insert, update, delete Data) 

Databases, XML Data Sources, and Advanced Controls
Creating a Form from an XML Schema           
Creating a Form from an XML File      
Creating a Form from a Database        
Querying a Database   
Submitting Data           
Repeating Tables and Master/Detail Controls   
 

Using Forms with SharePoint Workflows   
Forms and Workflows 
Publishing the Form     
Adding a Workflow     
Adding a Data Connection to Receive Workflow Information   
Creating a new Form View for the Workflow   
Changing the Form in Response to Workflow Status    

Pulling it all together with SharePoint Designer Workflows and InfoPath Forms
Built-In WSS/MOSS Workflows
SharePoint Designer Workflows
SharePoint Designer Conditions
SharePoint Designer Actions
Extending SharePoint Designer Workflows