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Where did design view go in SharePoint Designer
The document discusses the evolution of SharePoint, highlighting the challenges and features introduced in SharePoint 2013 compared to 2010, particularly regarding power users and their roles. It emphasizes the reduced functionality in design and customization, noting that only developers may effectively manage page layouts and themes. The text also touches on various tools such as SharePoint Designer, Infopath, and Access Apps, while advising caution regarding their implementation based on specific business needs.
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- 6. Seriously, Where DidDesign View Go? "Use SharePoint as an out-of-box application whenever possible…” - Jeff Teper, Corporate Vice President SharePoint "We’d like to see all of our customers move to the cloud…” - Kirk DelBene, President, Microsoft Office “Investing heavily in SharePoint Designer does not make financial sense and does not fully comply with Microsoft’s overall strategy for SharePoint” - Patrick O’Toole Upgrading the tool will take time an money
- 8. Who Are PowerUsers? Middle Tier Developer No-Code Specialist SharePoint Designer/InfoPath Developer Site or Site Collection Admin 8 Business Users Developers Architects IT Pros Power Users
- 9. What the PowerUser Does Site/Site Collection admins (Boring! Not covering this) Create SharePoint functionality through savvy use of out of the box components & light development Three main types of functionality Look & feel / branding Data presentation / business intelligence Business process integration and data collection 9
- 10. Why Do ICare? Some topics will directly impact your work Understanding the changes in the role of the Power User help with: Planning & Project Management Creating Governance Training Support Adoption 10
- 12. Comparison of SharePoint2010/2013 Look & Feel / Branding Data Presentation / Business Intelligence Business Process Integration and Data Collection 12
- 13. Quick HTML Editing CreatingPage Layouts Creating and Applying a Theme
- 14. Quick HTML Editing 14 SharePoint2010 – Woof! SharePoint 2013 – A little better
- 15. Creating Page Layouts SharePoint2010 Copy & paste existing Page Layout (at Site Collection level) Drag controls around, delete controls, etc. SharePoint 2013 – More difficult without design view 15 Conclusion: Only devs will work with Page Layouts
- 16. Creating & ApplyingThemes SharePoint 2010 Edit colors/fonts from an out of the box Theme Create .thmx file from PowerPoint and upload to Theme Gallery 16
- 17. Creating & ApplyingThemes SharePoint 2013 Themes are now part of “Composed Looks” Composed Looks combine any combination of MasterPages CSS file(s) Color pallets Font schemes (optional) Background image (optional) Editing of Composed Looks is simple but lacks functionality* Custom Composed Looks too difficult? 17
- 18. Creating & ApplyingThemes Editing Out of Box SharePoint 2013 Composed Look 18 Very simple Can’t edit individual colors in browser
- 19. Creating & ApplyingThemes Custom Composed Look in SharePoint 2013 .spcolor file .spfont file (optional) Master Page & CSS Background image (optional) Associate Composed Look to masterpage, spcolor file, etc. .spcolor file – the hard way.spfont fileMasterPage/CSS
- 20. Creating & ApplyingThemes Creating .spcolor file – the easy way (link)
- 21. Creating & ApplyingThemes Conclusion Power Users might create .spcolor files the easy way Developers likely needed to help with everything else Governance needed
- 22. Data View WebParts Quick List Modifications Search & Content Query Web Part
- 23. Data View WebParts SharePoint 2010/2013 Create DVWPs Create Related Data Sources Edit XSL to change formatting
- 24. Data View WebParts Example
- 25. Quick List Modifications EditingColumn Widths – SharePoint 2010 1. Add List to page 2. Open page in SharePoint Designer 3. Drag column
- 26. Quick List Modifications EditingColumn Widths – SharePoint 2013
- 27. Quick List Modifications ConditionalFormatting – SharePoint 2010
- 28. Quick List Modifications ConditionalFormatting – SharePoint 2013 SPD 2013 SPD 2010
- 29. Search & Query– SharePoint 2010 Content Query Web Part Scope: Site Collection Can filter/sort by Site Columns Can show up URL, image, title & description Several OOB styles, can create custom ones
- 30. Search & Query– SharePoint 2010 Search Results Web Part Scope: Anything crawled Can enhance with clever URL query strings (&a=sts_web) Can style with XSL
- 31. Search & Query– SharePoint 2013 Content Search Web Part Scope: anything crawled Lots of options for queries Display Templates & Item Display Templates (HTML) Enterprise feature Office 365 Availability*
- 32. Search & Query– SharePoint 2013 Content Search Web Part – Query Basics Refiners Sorting Settings Test
- 33. Search & Query– SharePoint 2013 Content Search Web Part – Examples
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- 35. SharePoint Designer Workflows SharePoint2010 Very valuable tool for Power Users SharePoint 2013 Amazing! Covered in detail in prior ChDevSPUG Loops & Stages Need to call SP2010 workflows
- 36. InfoPath SharePoint 2010 List forms– easy Form Libraries – powerful Room for improvement Managed metadata
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- 38. Access Access Apps andSharePoint 2013 App-Web / Host-Web concept Integrate with other data “Simple” forms with Autocomplete Macros (by devs or power users)
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- 41. Access 1. Tables 1 2 5 4 3 2. Views 3.Filter 4. Info 5. Related Info Example
- 42. Access When to useAccess Apps Migrate & Manage existing Access Apps on SharePoint Small or temporary applications with relational data When Access & InfoPath can solve a business problem – consider Access first An option to avoid 5000 item limit in SharePoint list
- 43. Access When NOT touse Access Apps If you ask a B.I. consultant: But seriously When a SharePoint list works Large company / business critical (Potentially) When handling millions of records
- 44. Business Process Integration Conclusion Encourage SharePointDesigner Workflows Access Apps Discourage InfoPath Forms – although they certainly have their place
- 46. Contact Information Email: Patrick.Lawrence.Otoole@gmail.com Twitter:@OToolePatrick Blog: http://SharePointOToole.Wordpress.com
- 47. © 2012 Slalom,LLC. All rights reserved. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Slalom, LLC. as of the date of this presentation. SLALOM MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.
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- #7 For instance SharePoint Designer needs to render designs involving new web standards (HTML5, CSS3). Upgrading it to do so will cost time and money. SharePoint should be used first. SharePoint Designer (or other customizations) are NOT encouraged by Microsoft. Good move for them. Microsoft putting huge investment into Office 365 and the cloud Some SharePoint Designer solutions can be taxing on the server. Microsoft is okay with seeing these solutions disappear (or only built be more savvy developers)
- #9 I’m using the term very liberally in this presentation. I’m referring to anyone between the typical Business User, and the seasoned Developer/IT Pro. NOTE: In other contexts I will refer to Power Users differently. For the case of this presentation talking about this group made the most sense
- #10 Another way to think of this type of functionality is something that a SharePoint Developer or Consultant can teach a member of an IT staff so that they can repeat and extend this functionality.
- #11 A lot of developers bounce between hard-core Visual Studio development and Middle-Tier Development, so some of this content is directly applicable to your development work Understanding the changes in the role of the Power User (or any role for that matter) help with: Planning & Project Management Creating Governance Training Support Adoption
- #13 These 4 core areas of functionality can be simplified to How it Looks Find Stuff Data Forms & Workflow
- #15 Savvier folks would edit content in Notepad++ and paste it back later. SharePoint 2013 offers tabbed Divs and Table elements when editing the HTML source of rich text. Overall this is a mild improvement – nothing too significant
- #17 Editing Out of the Box theme is shown in the image Creating a them from PowerPoint includes Creating a theme from any PowerPoint Presentation Uploading it to the Theme Gallery of a Site Collection Applying it to any Site Benefits of this include: Super easy – applies simple branding to any site/application Allows companies to re-use branding work done by marketing/communications (or whomever created the PowerPoint template) This is an easy way for the IT staff to work with another business function, helps create symbiotic relationship
- #18 * Theme Slots Tool can add functionality back - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=38182
- #19 Can select: Background Image Color Scheme (cannot edit the color shemes)* Site Layout (aka Master Page). There are 2 Out of Box ones from which to choose Fonts. Several Out of Box options available *Theme Slots Tool - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=38182 Special things to note: Governance! Will you allow users to create their own composed looks using predefined Master Pages, Color Schemes, etc? Will you enforce the same composed look throughout?
- #20 Detailed Steps Create and upload an .spcolor file (Easy with SharePoint Color Palette Tool) Create and upload an .spfont file (fairly complicated, but optional) Create or use an Out of the Box Master Page & CSS file Upload a background image (optional) Create a Composed Look and associate it to a masterpage, .spcolor file (and optionally background image and .spfont file)
- #21 SharePoint Color Picker (aka Theme Slots Tool) Detailed Steps SharePoint Color Palette Tool Can even select color Hex, RGB, HSL or color picker\ Save As (saves an .spcolor file) Upload .spcolor file More info on using Color Palette Tool: http://en.share-gate.com/blog/create-sharepoint2013-theme-using-color-palette-tool
- #24 Story is similar for SharePoint 2010 & 2013 Can still add DVWPs as in SharePoint Designer & can still use Single Item View Multiple Item View (list) Single Item Form Multiple Item Form New Item Form Create Related Sources Allows you to show different Lists side by side or intertwined Complicated to edit any further in code
- #25 Three Tasks lists pulled as data sources Light formatting done within XSL of DVWP Filtering ability may be new with 2013 Easy to accomplish for Middle Tier Developers
- #27 Can still change individual column widths with XSL of Data View Web part Needs to be done with a Data View Web Part. Will not be possible if you add a list in the browser, and then edit the page in SharePoint Designer
- #28 Simple instructions Add a list to a page Open the page in SharePoint Designer Click on the list, and in the ribbon click Conditional formatting
- #29 After adding a DVWP you could select it and use a conditional formatting wizard. Now when working within the code view, the “Conditional Formatting” option is not even available Also missing (and not nearly as important) is the ability to turn Inline Editing on
- #30 CQWP Examples show all documents within the Site Collection in which Name contains “test”
- #31 You can edit the XSL of a search web part to (in this case) hide the description. You would then paste this code into the web part properties
- #32 Display Templates will not be created by power users. Developers will appreciate creating them more as they are HTML based *“Content Search is not available on Office 365 right now, but we are working on enabling it in the future.” http://blogs.office.com/b/sharepoint/archive/2013/01/08/introducing-the-content-search-web-part.aspx Details on Search Crawl in SharePoint Online: “Search crawls happen continuously to ensure that content changes are available via search results as soon as possible. Recently uploaded documents may not immediately show up in search results due to the time it takes to process them. SharePoint Online targets between 15 minutes and an hour for the time between upload and availability in search results (also referred to as ‘index freshness’). In cases of heavy environment use, this time can grow to up to six hours.”
- #33 Basics allows to narrow down your search by almost anything Can refine by people, content OR conversations Refiners Is contextual. It changes depending on what you put in the Basics tab In general, refines by content type, author, site template, hashtag (again may not be useful if using Yammer) and other Sorting In SharePoint 2010 sorting was only available be relevance or by date Can literally sort by anything (including all time views), amount of posts (for community sites), FileName (alphabetical order) Settings A few settings - nothing too worthwhile Test Gives you the final query that was generated Could help as a starting point for custom built queries – in case this web part does not suit your needs
- #34 First screenshot Search for the keyword “Test.” Each item is being displayed differently depending on which item it is Second screenshot All items are being displays as a “Best Bet” item for a simpler presentation of results. Items are being displayed be “Lifetime Views” but that can be changed via a dropdown at the top of the web part Third screenshot List of all “Discussions” which can be filtered too Will be great if you stick with SharePoint social (over Yammer)
- #36 SharePoint Designer 2010 Workflow examples From simple to more complex: Kick off custom email upon creating item Create unique item-level permissions for documents based on metadata Change the out of the box approval workflow to meet your needs (additional steps/approvers, custom emails) Workflow Actions in SharePoint Designer 2013: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj164026.aspx Workflow Actions that are deprecated in SharePoint Designer 2013 (you’ll need to create a SharePoint 2010 workflow and reference it): http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj163929.aspx Includes List item permissions and using “if current item field equals value” condition
- #39 App Model Easy to integrate with Lists from Host-Web Other Access DBs SQL Forms not as robust as InfoPath but come with a neat autocomplete feature Macros can be created through a Macro designer or by developer
- #41 Also easy to connect to Excel Tables or even SQL or other ODBC (open database connectivity) Data
- #42 Easy way to manage customers and attributes for them (products, orders, etc) Great for smaller teams or companies, but a eventually a robust reporting tool may be needed Steps to create simple system like this Open app Choose default Access Table Create Other Tables and link to original table
- #43 There are so many options. When should you use Access over say: SharePoint List InfoPath Form Excel Services Other system?
- #44 Always go with OOB List when possible There becomes a point when you should invest in a robust BI tool or CRM system. Access can certainly tide you over until then Excel is getting better at handling large amounts of data