Building the SharePoint User Experience
- 5h 47m
- Bjørn Christoffer Thorsmæhlum Furuknap
- Apress
- 2009
The SharePoint user experience is critical in application architecture and user acceptance. Using tools available to all developers, you will learn how to rebuild a SharePoint site, taking it all the way from the default out–of–the–box experience to your very own customized user experience.
Along the way you will receive a solid understanding of the SharePoint architecture that will enable you to take full advantage of the capabilities of SharePoint as a platform. This will allow you to tailor the SharePoint user experience to increase the value of solutions and to work more effectively with projects. And that, of course, leads to successful SharePoint solutions in your business that your users are happy to accept and use.
What you’ll learn
- Learn the tools needed to create effective and highly tailored user interfaces and experiences.
- Dissect an out–of–the–box site to learn how every user experience element is built.
- Master the core functions of sites, lists, content types, and fields.
- Build a site from scratch using tools available to everyone.
- Speed up development time by using little known tips and tricks.
- See how new skills can be applied to everyday tasks with simple exercises.
Who is this book for?
This book is for SharePoint developers who want to learn how to work with designers and other developers to create custom and tailored user experiences, including custom forms, content types, lists, fields, pages, and navigation that will better match your project’s requirements. This is not a book for graphic designers—you’ll find no Photoshop tips here!
About the Author
Bjørn Christoffer Thorsmæhlum Furuknap is a senior solutions architect, focusing primarily on SharePoint and related collaboration technologies. He has worked in IT since 1993, both as an IT professional and a developer. He is a former teacher at a college–level programming school, speaker, and author of published articles. He holds an MCSE as well as several other titles, including all current SharePoint certifications.
In this Book
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Introduction
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Checking Your Gear for Departure—Making Sure Your Setup is in Order
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Taking a Crash Course in XML—Reviewing the Simple Stuff Needed to Work with SharePoint
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Exploring Feature Basics and Not-So Basics—Getting down with the Feature Framework of SharePoint
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Excavating the Site—Overview of the Default SharePoint Interface from a Technical Point of View
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Evolving the Default User Experience—Tips on What You Can Change without Breaking Supportability
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What Lurks in the Forest of Lists?—Ripping the Guts Out of SharePoint Dragons, Lists, List Templates, and List Forms
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Encountering the Monsters in the Cave—Looking at Views in a Different View
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The Liquid Nitrogen of SharePoint—Content Types—The Coolest Thing Since…Cold
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Strolling through Fields of Gold—I Think… Yes, There it is… Our Goal is in Sight
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Intermission—The Mentality of a SharePoint Developer—Use Your Noodle the Right Way and Be a Better Developer
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Starting Field—Getting Fields and Field Types to Behave
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Creating Your First Content Factory—Using Content Types as Part of Our User Experience
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Accounting Gone Haywire—List, Forms, Reports, Views…Ah, the Bean Counters Will Go Mad!
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Pages and Pages of Fun!—Creating Custom Editing, Management, and Presentation Pages
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Our Empire United—Wrapping All Our Hard Work into a Single SharePoint Solution
