This video series shows you how to quickly and easily build complex business solutions on the SharePoint platform. Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 Business Administrator Training is a one-and-a-half hour, 300-400 level training series, produced in collaboration with the SharePoint Product Team and Total Training. Your host, John Jansen, teaches you about Visual Studio Integration, how to use the Data View Dashboard, creating the best workflow, how to apply layout changes in a highly interactive video, and more. The training has been divided into four chapters.

• Chapter 1: Integrating Visual Studio

• Chapter 2: Using the Data View Dashboard

• Chapter 3: Creating the best workflow

• Chapter 4: Applying layout changes

• Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007

• Total Training

Chapter 1: Integrating Visual Studio

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Using Visual Studio to create solutions on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server has typically been very complicated, but with this newest release of Office SharePoint Designer, it's gotten a lot easier. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to use Visual Studio to create a custom site definition on the Office SharePoint Server. Plus, you'll also find out how to use that custom definition to create a new Site application on the server and customize that application in Office SharePoint Designer. Whether you want to create Event Handlers for List item creation or custom Work Flow Actions, this tutorial will get you started quickly — and teach you that deploying custom code is as easy as creating any solution in Visual Studio.

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Chapter 2: Using the Data View Dashboard

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Creating a Web Application that displays data from different data sources, and then shows the relationship of those sources to one another typically requires coding custom data source connections and custom coding on the pages to display that data. With Office SharePoint Designer 2007, you can achieve this scenario without writing any code — watch this tutorial now to see how just how quickly it can be done.

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Chapter 3: Creating the best workflow

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Office SharePoint Designer 2007 workflows enable you to create a business process that has steps triggered automatically based on events and conditions you specify. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to build an intermediate workflow that is based on a Project Submission process, so that all Project Submissions are tracked from start to finish, and the person who created the submission is notified of its progress. Learn how to create a workflow in Office SharePoint Designer 2007 now.

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Chapter 4: Applying layout changes

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Modification of Web Parts, Web Part Zones, CSS, and page layout can be complex tasks. Office SharePoint Designer 2007 exposes these objects in taskpanes and dialogs so that their properties can be edited easily without needing to go into the code of the page. In this training, you'll find out how to modify Web Part zone properties and table cells to change the layout of the default page in a Windows SharePoint Services template. Plus, you'll also learn how to continue with the customizations by making some changes to Web Part classes referenced in core.css on the server.

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Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007

Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 is the quintessential tool for creating and customizing Microsoft SharePoint Web sites and building workflow-enabled applications based on SharePoint technologies. SharePoint Designer 2007 equips you with powerful, professional tools that allow you to design and build great-looking, customizable solutions faster, enhancing productivity and efficiency. Automate your business process, maintain site performance, create reporting and tracking applications, work with fully customizable templates, and more, all in a what you see is what you get (WYSIWYG) environment.

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Total Training

Total Training is a pioneer of innovative online video training for leading creative print, Web design and development, digital video, and office productivity software programs.

For more SharePoint video tutorials, visit Total Training.

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