SharePoint Designer 2010: Creating Data-Driven Web Pages

Use SharePoint Designer to create rich, highly visual web pages in SharePoint that connect, read, and even update information stored externally.

Explore how to use SharePoint Designer to create rich, highly visual web pages in SharePoint that connect, read, and even update information stored externally. Author Simon Allardice shows how to manage data sources that connect to different databases, web services, and XML files, without any coding necessary. It also covers how to provide powerful visual information with conditional formatting, and how to make custom data entry forms.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know

1. Getting Started

• SharePoint Designer 2010 overview
• Opening sites with SharePoint Designer 2010
• Creating new pages
• Working with existing lists and libraries
• Editing Data View Web Parts

2. Managing Data Sources

• External data sources
• Reading data from an XML file
• Reading data from an external database
• Reading data from a SOAP-based web service
• Reading data from a REST-based web service

3. Business Connectivity Services

• Introduction to Business Connectivity Services
• Creating external content types
• Creating external lists
• Introduction to the Secure Store Service

4. Data-Driven Pages

• Understanding data-driven web pages
• Working with Data View and Data Form Web Parts
• Filtering, sorting, and grouping data
• Connecting web parts
• Creating master/detail pages

5. Displaying Richer Data

• Conditional formatting
• Hiding and showing conditional content
• Using formulas
• Getting started with custom XSLT/XPath

6. Creating Custom Forms

• Creating custom forms for lists and external lists
• Creating custom forms for data sources
• Creating associations in Business Connectivity Services
• Creating custom forms with InfoPath 2010

Conclusion

• Resources