"I Didn't Know You Could Do That With SharePoint" is the name of a class I teach to our SharePoint power users at my company. The goal of this class is to demonstrate some advanced solutions that they can implement on their team sites, without having to write any code. We cover eight advanced topics in just an hour, so the "training" is very demo intensive. It covers more of the what than the how. The how will be addressed in future hands-on training sessions for each topic, and as I prepare each advanced training session I will upload the slides here. I've written a blog post about the class at http://www.sharepointwendy.com/2012/06/i-didnt-know-you-could-do-that-with.html.

1. Easy, No-Code Solutions
To Increase Productivity

2.  Cool Stuff:
◦ Reusable content using CEWP
◦ Easy Tabs – tabbed interface
◦ Adding CSS to your site
◦ Conditional formatting on lists
◦ Utilizing lookup lists
◦ Query string filtering with the CQWP
◦ Content types
◦ Parent/child list relationships
 Tips & Best Practices

3. Display content in multiple
places with the Content Editor
Web Part (CEWP)

4.  Add formatted text, tables, links, and images
to a Web Part Page

5.  Create using ribbon design interface

6.  Can also directly modify the HTML

7.  A better option: Content Link to a text file

8. 2 pages
1 source

9. Tabbed interface to maximize
space and organize content

10.  JavaScript text inside a CEWP
 Adds a tabbed interface to any web part page
 Written by Christophe Humbert at
http://blog.pathtosharepoint.com

11.  Customize at http://usermanagedsolutions.com/SharePoint-
User-Toolkit/Pages/Easy-Tabs-v5.aspx
Save to
disk

12.  Upload to a document library

13.  Add a CEWP with link to your
script file
 Set web part to hidden
 Move the CEWP under all the
web parts you wish to “tabify”
and exit edit mode

17. Change the way your site
pages look using CSS

18.  Stands for Cascading Style Sheets
 Styles define how to display HTML elements
 Separates look and feel from functionality
P {
color:red;
text-align:center;
}

19.  Some elements can’t be modified through the
user interface
 Easier/quicker to change CSS than changing a
master page or writing custom code

20.  Use CEWP to embed CSS on your page

21.  Upload alternate CSS file shared across entire
site (site master page settings page)

22.  Hide left navigation for this page

23. Wiki Library – hide
Wiki Library - before
recently modified links

24. Change background, font
colors and other effects

25.  Different visual effects to lists/libraries based
on dynamic criteria
 Examples:
◦ Highlight row color based on status
◦ Different KPI indicators when numbers pass certain
thresholds
◦ Change text weight, style, color, based on field
value

27. Streamline data entry and
provide consistent choices

28.  Consists of two elements:
◦ Lookup column (dropdown)
◦ A SharePoint list (can be same list or different)
populates the choices for the Lookup column
 Benefits:
◦ Provides time savings
◦ Allows for consistent data
◦ Change list choices in one place

30. Lookup List Choice Field
o Slightly more work to set up o Easy to set up
o Always dropdown list o Radio button, checkbox support
o Easier to update choices o Harder to update choices
o Change once, update everywhere o Updates are go-forward only

31. Filter data via the query string
with the Content Query Web
Part (CQWP)

32.  Pull specific data from lists or libraries to
display on different pages or sub-sites
 Can “roll up” data queried from many sources
 Supports filtering, grouping, sorting

33.  Source list
“Products”

34.  Browse to your
list

35.  Expand the
Additional Filters
instructions
 Add query string
parameter

38. Ensure content standardization
and enable re-use

39.  Reusable collection of metadata (columns),
workflow, behavior, and other settings for a
category of items or documents
 Enable you to manage the settings for a
category of information in a centralized,
reusable way
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms472236.aspx

40. What does that mean?!!!

41.  Utilizing different document templates (ex.
Word, Excel, PowerPoint in the New menu)

42.  Different item types co-existing in same
library (ex. documents, hyperlinks, videos)

43.  Different types of data or content, which may
share some common properties, but also
each has some unique attributes

44. ‣ Both content types share common data
‣ If Taxable product item content type, then display the Tax
Rate field
Product item Taxable product item

45.  Centrally manage different groups of content
 Can apply different
policies, workflows, retention
schedules, metadata
 Data is organized consistently throughout the
organization

46. Use list relationships to link
your data

47.  Links lists together
 Add one-to-many relationships
 Brings the capabilities of SharePoint data
models closer to those of relational databases
 But…not as powerful as relational databases

50. ‣ When creating child
list, create IssueID Lookup
field
‣ Map to the ID column of the
Tasks list, and also show
Title column
‣ Be sure to enforce
relationship behavior

51. ‣ Modify child
list’s New Form
in SharePoint
Designer
‣ Add URL
parameter to
auto populate
the IssueID field

52. ‣ Modify parent
list’s Display
Form in
SharePoint
Designer
‣ Add a Related
Item View web
part
‣ Add JavaScript
link to child
list’s New Form

54.  Append ?contents=1 to web part page URL
 Maintenance mode to remove bad web parts

55.  Change default name of web parts to
descriptive name
 Use content links with CEWP whenever
possible
 Don’t just put any script on your site
◦ Understand what it’s doing
◦ If you don't understand, ASK!!