SharePoint Designer Training: Introduction to SharePoint Designer 2010

Course Number: SHPT-200
GSA/Previous Course Number: 940
Duration: 4 days
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SharePoint Designer 2010 Training Overview

Accelebrate's Introduction to SharePoint Designer 2010 training course teaches students how to create and brand web sites, manage data, and generate workflows using SharePoint's free SharePoint Designer authoring tool.

Location and Pricing

Most Accelebrate courses are taught on-site at our clients' locations worldwide for groups of 3 or more attendees and are customized to their specific needs. Please visit our client list to see organizations for whom we have recently delivered training. These courses can also be delivered as live, private online classes for groups that are geographically dispersed or wish to save on the instructor's or students' travel expenses. To receive a customized proposal and price quote for private training at your site or online, please contact us.

In addition, some courses are available as live, online classes for individuals. To see a schedule of online courses, please visit http://www.accelebrate.com/online_training/?action=course&page=SHP2010.3.

SharePoint Designer 2010 Training Prerequisites

Attendees should have experience with the Internet Explorer and Office Products such as Word, Excel and Outlook. Previous experience with SharePoint (any version) is ideal but not required.

Hands-on/Lecture Ratio

This SharePoint Designer 2010 training class is 70% hands-on, 30% lecture, with the longest lecture segments lasting 20 minutes.

SharePoint Designer 2010 Training Materials

All attendees receive comprehensive courseware covering all subjects in the course.

Software Needed on Each Student PC

This SharePoint 2010 training course requires:

Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, SharePoint Server 2010, Office 2010 and Visual Studio 2010
Dual Core CPU 1.6Ghz (or faster)
6GB RAM (or more)
100GB+ hard drive

SharePoint Designer 2010 Training Objectives

All students will learn to:

Navigate SharePoint 2010 and the SharePoint Designer environment and discover what each piece does
Use SharePoint Designer to create the SharePoint site structure and manage its content
Work with internal and external data sources
Build robust electronic forms with data validation
Use SharePoint Designer Workflow's and their integration with Visio and InfoPath
Create Content types, site columns, web part pages, web parts, and manage site security
Best utilize SharePoint Designer 2010 and how to properly integrate it into your environment
Create content-centric sites with a custom look and feel experience
Use Microsoft's ECM strategy within SharePoint Server 2010
Implement and customize My Sites
Use social networking capabilities like wikis, the new Enterprise Wikis, blogs and audience targeting
Integrate your SharePoint environment with external Line of Business Data to create robust business solutions
Leverage the included charting Web Parts, Excel Services and the BI Center template
Create custom KPI's, scorecards and dashboards using PerformancePoint services, now included in SharePoint Server 2010
Customize the search experience using the included search Web Parts
Use Workspace 2010 so site users can continue to contribute and collaborate easily while they are not connected to the site online

SharePoint Designer 2010 Training Outline

Creating and Customizing SharePoint 2010 Sites

Overview of Microsoft SharePoint Foundation vs. SharePoint Server 2010
Getting Around in Central Administration and Site Settings
Team sites and collaboration
The server ribbon
Editing a Site's home page
Adding and customizing Web Parts
Survey of included Site Templates
Create a SharePoint Site and change its Theme
Working with the SharePoint 2010 Ribbon and In-place Editing
Exploring the Central Administration Site

Introduction to SharePoint Designer 2010

Overview of SharePoint Designer 2010 Feature Set
Exploring a Team Site with SharePoint Designer 2010
Modifying a Team Site's Master Page
Adding a custom action
SharePoint Designer 2010 Security Settings
Looking Around SharePoint Designer 2010
Creating Custom Actions
Discovering Master Pages
Managing Site Permissions
Restricting SharePoint Designer Usage

Creating and Customizing Content

Adding Pages to a Site
Standard Pages vs. Web Part Pages vs. Wiki Pages
Creating a List with SharePoint Designer 2010
Customizing navigation in a Team Site
Creating Document Libraries and Document Templates
Creating Site Columns and Content Types with SharePoint Designer 2010
Create a Subsite and Manage Navigation Options
Working with Lists
Working with Images
Site Columns and Content Types
Creating Standard Web Pages
Creating a Web Part Page

XSLT Web Part and the Data View Web Part

Customizing pages with XsltListView Web Part with SharePoint Designer 2010
Condition Formatting with XsltListView Web Part with SharePoint Designer 2010
Display XML data and database tables using Data Form Web Part with SharePoint Designer 2010
Creating List Forms
Creating List Views
Creating Database Connections
Creating Web Part Connections
Accessing Data through Web Services

InfoPath 2010 and Forms Services

Understanding the Scope and Purpose of InfoPath 2010
Working with the InfoPath Forms Designer
Forms Libraries and User Published Forms
Forms Services and Browser-Rendered Forms
Creating InfoPath Form Library Forms
Customizing List Forms
Displaying Forms using InfoPath Form Web Part

Creating Workflows with SharePoint Designer 2010

Motivation For Workflows To Automate Business Processes
Understanding Various Types Of Workflows: Site, List, Content Type and Reusable
The SharePoint Designer 2010 Workflow Task Editor
Modeling A Workflow With Visio 2010
Importing A Visio 2010 Workflow Into SharePoint Designer 2010
Customizing Workflow Input Forms
Creating a List Workflow
Building Workflows with Visio 2010 & SharePoint Designer 2010
Creating a Site Workflow

Web Content Management

Overview of Publishing Site Functionality
Creating and Approving Publishing pages
Integrating Master Pages and custom CSS files
Creating Custom Page Layouts
Customizing the Workflow Behind the Publishing Approval Process
Creating a Publishing Portal
Creating Custom Page Layouts
Creating and Approving Publishing Pages

Enterprise Content Management

Enterprise Metadata and Taxonomies
Creating and exploiting term sets
In-Place Records Management
Document Sets
Unique Document IDs
Working with Managed Metadata
Working with Document Sets

Enterprise Wikis and Social Networking

The Enterprise Wiki site template
Integrating branding artifacts and term sites
User Profiles
My Sites
Audience Targeting
Creating an Enterprise Wiki Site Collection
Creating a Term Set
Working with Terms, Tags, Keywords and Ratings in the Enterprise Wiki Site
Creating User Profiles
Creating and Setting Up a My Site

Leveraging External Data in SharePoint 2010 with Business Connectivity Services

Overview of options to leverage external data in SharePoint Server 2010
Overview of External Content Types (ECT)
Using SharePoint Designer 2010 to customize ECTs
Using ECTs in external lists
Using ECTs in search solutions
Creating External Content Types in SharePoint Designer
Importing External Content Types in BCS
Expose External Content Types in Outlook
Create Quick Parts in a Microsoft Word Template to Expose Line of Business Data

Creating Offline Solutions with SharePoint Workspace 2010

Overview and introduction to SharePoint Workspace 2010
Taking SharePoint site's content offline with SharePoint Workspace
Customizing SharePoint Workspace
Synchronize using SharePoint Workspace 2010
Working with External Lists in SharePoint Workspace
Use InfoPath to Edit a SharePoint List Form
Security in SharePoint Workspace

Conclusion