The SharePoint Designer tool in the 2007 release wasn’t everyone’s favorite customization tool. But with SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint Designer 2010, everybody should give this tool a new chance. Many of the limitations of the previous release are removed and lots of brand new functionality is introduced. This session will bring the highlights and show some real life examples using reusable workflows, workflow activities, BCS,

1. #SPSBE
Give the SharePoint Designer
a Chance!
#spsbe11
Jan Tielens, Microsoft

2. About me
@jantielens
http://weblogs.asp.net/jan

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4. THE MANY SHADES OF SHAREPOINT
CUSTOMIZATIONS
Capabilities
SharePoint
Web Browser Office Clients Designer Visual Studio
Agility

5. POSITIONING THE SHAREPOINT DESIGNER
• Target Audiences:
• Site Owners
• Professional Developers
• Skills required:
• Basic SharePoint skills
• SharePoint Designer skills
• Easy, quick, customizations:
• Look-and-feel, List & Library design, Workflow, BCS, …
• Think about re-usability

6. WHY HAS THE SHAREPOINT DESIGNER A BAD
NAME?

7. NEW USER EXPERIENCE
• SharePoint artifact-centric navigation
• Gallery Page
• Summary Page
• Edit Page
• Fluent UI Integration
• Breadcrumb
• Navigation Bar

8. VIEWS & FORMS
• XSLT List View Web Part
• Format from Ribbon
• Add custom action to list or ribbon
• Infopath form for New Item, View Item, Edit Item

9. IMPROVED WORKFLOW
• Reusable declarative workflow templates
• List, Reusable, Site
• Import/Export workflows to Visio
• Nested If/Then/Else
• Associate with Content Type
• Edit Approval/Feedback/Signature workflows
• Impersonation Approval (content author vs. approver)
• Workflow visualizations

10. EXTERNAL CONTENT TYPES & BCS
• ECT – Formerly Business Data Entity
• External Lists – created from ECT
• Business Data Column from ECT
• Access External Lists in Outlook/Workspace

11. ADMINISTRATION
• Only Site Collection Admins can
• customize pages, master pages and page layouts
• Access All Files
• Edit pages in Advanced Mode
• Versioning for Site Pages
• No “un-ghosting” or customizing pages so upgrade is easier

12. RESOURCES
• http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint-designer-help/whats-new-in-sharepoint-
designer-2010-HA010370728.aspx
• http://sharepoint-
nirvana.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=153:comparison-between-
sp-designer-2007-a-sp-designer-2010&catid=99:sharepoint-designer
• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179083.aspx

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