This document provides guidance on building a social media sharing site in SharePoint 2013 called ContosoTube. It discusses setting up the content structure with lists, libraries and site pages. It also covers customizing the master page and page layout for the home page. This includes adding web part zones, navigation, and actions users can take like creating channels, uploading videos, browsing videos and viewing help. Finally, it discusses how to link videos and channels by tagging videos with managed metadata terms from a term set.
2. How to build a social media sharing sitein SharePoint 2013 February 2013
Contents
Introduction .............................................................................................................................3
Note about host-ability 3
Target Audience 3
Project overview ....................................................................................................................4
Permission-level 5
Setting up the Content Structure 6
Lists and Library 6
Project #1. Creating master page and page layout for the home page ............7
Step #1: Creating and customizing the master page 7
Step #2: Creating the Page Layout 8
Project #2. Linking videos and channels: how tagging works ......................... 11
Project #3. Customizing the home page .................................................................... 13
Step #1: Adding the Media Web Part 13
Step #2: Adding and configuring the Content Search Web Part 14
Project #4. Customizing the channels page ............................................................. 19
Creating a page layout 19
Configuring the Content Search Web Part 19
Project # 5. Customizing the video player page ..................................................... 21
Configuring the Recommendations Web Part 21
Conclusion .............................................................................................................................. 23
Acknowledgements ............................................................................................................ 23