Course Details

Gain the hands-on skills required by anyone who needs to customize the look and feel of SharePoint sites. Learn how to create interactive Web pages complete with cascading style sheets, lists, libraries, and customized web parts. Also, learn how to access external data sources, create data views, and create workflows to enhance user productivity.

This self-paced course includes six hours of instructor presentations and demonstrations and six hours of hands-on labs that can be accessed over the Internet.

Receive a $500 voucher for the SharePoint Developer Immersion or SharePoint for Administrators training courses.

Introduction to SharePoint Designer

• What is SharePoint Designer?
• Who Should use SharePoint Designer?
• Lab: Examining Sites and Lists using SharePoint Designer
• What’s New in SharePoint Designer 2010?
• Lab: Creating Objects using SharePoint Designer
• Changing the Look and Feel of Sites
• Lab: Modifying Site Design with SharePoint Designer

Organizing Information using Data Views

• Creating and Managing Data Views
• Creating and Managing Data Sources
• Merging and Linking Data Sources
• Specifying Data View Parameters
• Lab: Working with the DataView Web Part

Configuring External Data Access in SharePoint

• Introduction to Business Connectivity Services (BCS)
• Identifying Potential Sources of External Data
• Defining BCS Entities
• Lab: Implementing an External Data Source

Managing Business Processes using Workflows

• Introduction to Workflows
• Improvements to SharePoint 2010 Workflows
• Modifying the Built-in SharePoint Workflows
• Lab: Modifying the Built-in SharePoint workflows
• Building Custom SharePoint Workflows
• Lab: Creating a Custom SharePoint Workflow
• Introduction to Reusable Workflows
• Lab: Creating a Reusable Workflow