Technical Class: Tuesday, March 5 11:30 AM - 12:45 PM

1. Getting the Best use out of
SharePoint Designer 2010
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Presented by:
Asif Rehmani, SharePoint Server
MVP
SharePoint-Videos.com
Trainer/Solution Architect
asif@sharepointelearning.com

2. Who am I?
asif@sharepointelearning.com
 Microsoft Office SharePoint Server MVP, MCT Current
Video
Count:
 Principal contributor at SharePoint-Videos.com 442
 Videos on SharePoint, SharePoint Designer and
InfoPath
 SharePoint 2010 Training
 Co-Author of the book Professional SharePoint Designer
2007, Beginning SharePoint Designer 2010 and Real
World SharePoint 2010
 Speaker at various conferences
 Microsoft TechEd, SharePoint Conference, SPTechCon,
SharePoint Connections, Best Practices Conference
etc.

3. What to Expect during this presentation?
 250 level presentation
 Navigating through major areas
within SPD
 Quick Demos, Best Practices and
Guidance on each of the areas

4. Building Solutions and Customizing SharePoint
 End Users
 Designers
 Site Admins
 IT Professionals
 Designers
 Site Admins
 Developers
 IT Professionals
 Developers

5. Evolution of SharePoint Designer
Note:

6. Demo
A lap around SPD 2010

7. Introducing SharePoint Designer in
your Organization
 Know that anyone can download
directly from Microsoft’s website
 Best to inform user base to wait until
they get a “clearance” from IT before
downloading & installing

8. SharePoint Designer usage
Permission Levels
Web Application Administrators manage permissions for Site Collection
Administrators
Site Collection Administrators manage permissions for Site Administrators and
Designers

9. Default SPD functionality available for
Site Users Best Practice:
Think hard before
Changing these
 Site Administrators and Designers
 No access to Master Pages
 No access to detach pages from site definition
 No access to manage website hierarchy
 Readers and Members

10. Demo
Restricting SPD usage

11. Switching Master Pages
Best done easily through SPD
• Team site Master Page
• User content pages (listscontent
v4.master pagesetc)
• _layouts pages (site settings, etc)
• For app experiences, like Search or
Office Web Applications
minimal.master • If you do not need site navigation
• If you do not have a ribbon
• If your app needs the space
• Show site using legacy interface
default.master
• No Ribbon, no fluency

12. Demo
Switch Master Pages using SPD

13. Hide Lists/Libraries from Browser
 Use Cautiously!

14. Demo
Hide from browser

15. Reusable and Package-able
Workflows
Best Practice:
Create your reusable
Workflows on one site
and then share with
other sites

16. Demo
Workflows

17. XSLT Web Parts
 Accessing SharePoint and non-SharePoint
data
Best Practice:
When accessing external
data, only retrieve what
you need to avoid clogging
the bandwidth.

18. Conditional Formatting

19. Call to Action
 Watch the SharePoint Designer 2010 videos on
sharepoint-videos.com
 Get access to the completely pre-built SharePoint
environment with the Demos -
http://tinyurl.com/asifcloudshare
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