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Chapter 1. Introduction to SharePoint

"Collaboration", "empowerment", and "information worker" are common buzzwords that are never far away in the world of SharePoint promotion, and which accurately convey the essence of SharePoint.

In this book, we will delve into the matters that are beyond the marketing speak and gain a deeper understanding of what SharePoint is. We will also learn to use SharePoint Designer to create and maintain sites that run on the platform.

My hope is that as you come to understand SharePoint better, you will associate your own adjectives with SharePoint such as "cool", "powerful", and "straightforward".

What is SharePoint?

"So, what is SharePoint then?" is a question that I hear frequently, not just from computer users but also, surprisingly, from savvy IT professionals. With over 24 different Microsoft Server products, it is understandable that not everyone knows what SharePoint is.

The aim of SharePoint is to improve team productivity by allowing staff to collaborate efficiently and providing them with the information they require. The information workers (i.e. staff) are being empowered!

SharePoint is a web-based collaboration, document management, and process management product that allows us to build an enterprise portal. It provides us with the framework to create websites that not only provide access to documents and shared workspaces but also allow other web-based applications such as wikis and blogs to be created. It also allows elaborate workflows to be created, allowing business processes to be monitored and actioned.

SharePoint makes this possible by pulling together the following existing Microsoft technologies and making them available to us for use:

  • ASP.NET (including Web Parts)

  • Internet Information Services (IIS)

  • Active Directory

  • SQL Server

The title, SharePoint, actually refers to two different Microsoft products:

  • Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS) is a free add-on for Windows Server 2003 and 2008, which provides us with the following SharePoint basics:

    • Basic document management with version control

    • Wiki

    • Blog

    • RSS support

    • Workflows

    • Meeting workspaces

    • Team sites

    • Form library

    • Discussion lists

    • Web part customization

  • Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) must be purchased separately, and adds lots of additional functionality to the basic functions already provided by the WSS Platform:

    • Improved document management

    • Enterprise search

    • Project management (by integrating with Microsoft Project Server)

    • Excel services (only available in the enterprise edition of MOSS 2007)

In addition to these, SharePoint is a great way to share and exchange information such as calendars and to-do lists.

Although SharePoint is of benefit to small businesses, which can use it to develop sites without the need of much customization, the cost of a MOSS implementation can be prohibitive. Many of the server applications that SharePoint likes to interact with, such as Active Directory and Exchange Server, are absent from small business environments. This makes SharePoint a less natural choice for such companies.

SharePoint is more commonly found in medium-sized companies and large enterprises where the requirement for collaboration is greater (due to the larger workforce). Larger companies often find it easier and more cost-effective to implement SharePoint because most of the IT infrastructure is already in place.

Why Choose SharePoint Designer?

I am sure you will already have guessed that Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 is a web design tool that allows us to edit and deploy SharePoint websites. In this book, we will be using Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 to build SharePoint sites.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 is often referred to simply as SPD. I will refer to it as SharePoint Designer from now on in an attempt to save a few trees as well as your precious time.

Why choose SharePoint Designer? My reason is this: there is pretty much nothing that you would want to do to your SharePoint site that you cannot do with SharePoint Designer. If, on the other hand, you were to design your site using a product other than SharePoint Designer or Visual Studio, then you would soon find that you are missing out on being able to use many of SharePoint's built-in features (workflow for example).

With copies selling for US$275 (or a pricier £230 on the other side of the Pond) from your favorite online store, it is a little more than you would pay for a copy of Microsoft Word, but you are buying yourself a lot of power.

Unfortunately, although SharePoint Designer is a part of the Office family, it is not included in any of the Office system suites.

If you don't already own a copy of SharePoint Designer, it is worth checking if you are eligible to subscribe to Microsoft's Action Pack that includes annual licenses for not just SharePoint Designer but also Windows Server 2003, SharePoint Server Enterprise 2007, and SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition, which are useful if you would like to build a test SharePoint network.

What is SharePoint Designer?

Even very competent and technically-minded people ask me what SharePoint is or what SharePoint Designer is. It is not an easy topic to explain. The following paragraph is how I would sum up SharePoint Designer:

SharePoint Designer fills in the space in the Office family that was vacated by Microsoft FrontPage (Microsoft's previous HTML editing program). It combines the familiar Office user interface, which was popular with users of FrontPage, with the power of Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, allowing data and reports to be built into your SharePoint site easily with the help of task panes and templates.

This may sound a little obscure or like marketing speak and not really put you in the picture. Thankfully, like many things in life, it is easier to understand the concept when we see it in action, so let's dive into it and take a look.

Installing SharePoint Designer

If you have not installed SharePoint Designer already, let's kick off by installing it on our computer. We begin by inserting the installation media (e.g. DVD). We then enter our product key and click the Continue button.

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If our installation does not autorun, then we will need to start the installation by double-clicking on the setup icon.

Next, we carefully read all ten thousand words of the license agreement, tick the checkbox to say that we accept the terms of the agreement, and click the Continue button.

On the next screen, we have the option of installing the default configuration by clicking the Install Now button or of customizing our installation.

Virtually all of SharePoint Designer is installed by default. If we were to click on the Customize button, we would be able to install additional Office features such as Japanese font support and proofing tools. We would also be able to specify an alternative file location and provide different user information.

We will opt for the default setup by clicking the Install Now button (it is, after all, larger than the other button, so would seem to be the one that Microsoft would like us to opt for).

The installation program then spends about three minutes (or longer if we have a slow computer), installing SharePoint Designer on our system. Once it is finished, we can click on the Close button.

We can then start SharePoint Designer by going to Start | All Programs | Microsoft Office | Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007.

If we are using another website editing program on our computer, SharePoint Designer will ask us if we would like to make SharePoint Designer our default editor.

SharePoint Designer will then present us with the activation wizard. Let's go ahead and activate our product. We are now ready to use SharePoint Designer.

Connecting to an Existing SharePoint Site

Now that we have successfully installed SharePoint Designer on our machine, we can open up an existing SharePoint site from anywhere on our network, the Internet, or our local computer.

Note

Virtually, all SharePoint sites are hosted on remote web servers on networks or on the Internet, but it is also possible to create simpler sites locally and edit the pages there (e.g. on your laptop when you are on the move). So, we will also cover that in this book.

We will be using a variety of examples in this book to demonstrate various concepts. In Chapter 3, we will be introduced to the Wine Company and create a basic site. We will also create other small sites to illustrate different features.

To open a site, we go to File | Open Site.

This will present us with the Open Site dialog. We simply type the name of our site (e.g. http://olmec/) into the Site name field and click Open. Note that by default, the default SharePoint site name will be the server address (i.e. http://servername/).

SharePoint Designer should then connect to our SharePoint site and list the files and folders in the Web Site pane in the center of the designer and in the Folder List task pane on the left of the designer.

Note

We can only connect to our site if our network login has the necessary permissions to open the SharePoint site. If it does not, then we will be prompted to use a login with the necessary permissions.

Further Information

Further information about SharePoint Server is available from Microsoft on its main website at http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/ and on its Office Online website at http://office.microsoft.com/sharepoint/.

The SharePoint Community Portal is also a good resource, not only because it provides lots of useful information but also because it is powered by MOSS 2007, allowing us to see what is possible by taking a peek at the site. Although the main framework of the community portal is built using MOSS 2007, disappointingly, many of the sections such as the blog, the forums, and the QnA do not use MOSS 2007 functionality. You can see the community portal at http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/sharepoint/.

Summary

In this first chapter, we learned what SharePoint is and why we should choose SharePoint Designer for developing SharePoint sites.

We also installed SharePoint Designer and learned to connect to an existing SharePoint site. We are now nicely set to continue with the rest of the book.

In the next three chapters, we will become familiar with adding basic content to our site. We will then move on to discover how to collaborate with contributors and connect with databases before spending time on the final four chapters of the book, using Web Parts to extend the functionality of our sites.

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Introduction to SharePoint Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Introduction to SharePoint
What is SharePoint?
Why Choose SharePoint Designer?
What is SharePoint Designer?
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Connecting to an Existing SharePoint Site
Further Information
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SharePoint Designer and its Environment Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
SharePoint Designer and its Environment
Development Tool Options
Tour of the Environment
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Adding Content and Tables Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Adding Content and Tables
The Wine Company
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Organizing Our Files
Publishing Our Site
Viewing Our Page
Authorization
Editing Existing Sites
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Formatting Pages Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Formatting Pages
The Wine Company Website
Creating Our Site
Formatting Our Homepage
Using Layers
Publishing Images
Renaming Our Styles
Cascading Style Sheets
Master Pages
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Collaborating with Other Contributors Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Collaborating with Other Contributors
Contributor Mode
Server-Based Sites versus Disk-Based Sites
Enabling Contributor Settings
Setting Up Contribution on Our Master Page
The Contributor's Experience
Workflows
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Collecting Data Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Collecting Data
Data Sources
Creating Our XML Data Source
Creating a Data View
Adding and Deleting Records
InfoPath
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Displaying Data Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Displaying Data
Formatting the Data View
Conditional Formatting
Formatting Numbers
Filtering Data
Using Formulae
Sorting Data
Paging
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Adding Web Parts Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Adding Web Parts
What Are Web Parts?
Web Part Zones
Inserting a Web Part Zone
Inserting a Web Part
Adding Graphs
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Using ASP.NET Controls Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Using ASP.NET Controls
ASP.NET Controls
Adding a Simple Control
The Menu Control
The Calendar Control
Validating Our Forms
Creating a Login Feature
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Integrating with Exchange Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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Introduction to Outlook Web Access Web Parts
Viewing the Outlook Web Access Web Parts
Integrating the My Tasks Web Part
Troubleshooting the Error Messages
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Search Web Parts
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  9. Iran
  10. Lebanon
  11. Libiya Arab Jamahriya
  12. Somalia
  13. Sudan
  14. Russian Federation
  15. Syrian Arab Republic
  16. Ukraine
  17. Venezuela
What is custom duty/charge? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

Customs duty are charges levied on goods when they cross international borders. It is a tax that is imposed on imported goods. These duties are charged by special authorities and bodies created by local governments and are meant to protect local industries, economies, and businesses.

Do I have to pay customs charges for the print book order? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

The orders shipped to the countries that are listed under EU27 will not bear custom charges. They are paid by Packt as part of the order.

List of EU27 countries: www.gov.uk/eu-eea:

A custom duty or localized taxes may be applicable on the shipment and would be charged by the recipient country outside of the EU27 which should be paid by the customer and these duties are not included in the shipping charges been charged on the order.

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The amount of duty payable varies greatly depending on the imported goods, the country of origin and several other factors like the total invoice amount or dimensions like weight, and other such criteria applicable in your country.

For example:

  • If you live in Mexico, and the declared value of your ordered items is over $ 50, for you to receive a package, you will have to pay additional import tax of 19% which will be $ 9.50 to the courier service.
  • Whereas if you live in Turkey, and the declared value of your ordered items is over € 22, for you to receive a package, you will have to pay additional import tax of 18% which will be € 3.96 to the courier service.
How can I cancel my order? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

Cancellation Policy for Published Printed Books:

You can cancel any order within 1 hour of placing the order. Simply contact customercare@packt.com with your order details or payment transaction id. If your order has already started the shipment process, we will do our best to stop it. However, if it is already on the way to you then when you receive it, you can contact us at customercare@packt.com using the returns and refund process.

Please understand that Packt Publishing cannot provide refunds or cancel any order except for the cases described in our Return Policy (i.e. Packt Publishing agrees to replace your printed book because it arrives damaged or material defect in book), Packt Publishing will not accept returns.

What is your returns and refunds policy? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

Return Policy:

We want you to be happy with your purchase from Packtpub.com. We will not hassle you with returning print books to us. If the print book you receive from us is incorrect, damaged, doesn't work or is unacceptably late, please contact Customer Relations Team on customercare@packt.com with the order number and issue details as explained below:

  1. If you ordered (eBook, Video or Print Book) incorrectly or accidentally, please contact Customer Relations Team on customercare@packt.com within one hour of placing the order and we will replace/refund you the item cost.
  2. Sadly, if your eBook or Video file is faulty or a fault occurs during the eBook or Video being made available to you, i.e. during download then you should contact Customer Relations Team within 14 days of purchase on customercare@packt.com who will be able to resolve this issue for you.
  3. You will have a choice of replacement or refund of the problem items.(damaged, defective or incorrect)
  4. Once Customer Care Team confirms that you will be refunded, you should receive the refund within 10 to 12 working days.
  5. If you are only requesting a refund of one book from a multiple order, then we will refund you the appropriate single item.
  6. Where the items were shipped under a free shipping offer, there will be no shipping costs to refund.

On the off chance your printed book arrives damaged, with book material defect, contact our Customer Relation Team on customercare@packt.com within 14 days of receipt of the book with appropriate evidence of damage and we will work with you to secure a replacement copy, if necessary. Please note that each printed book you order from us is individually made by Packt's professional book-printing partner which is on a print-on-demand basis.

What tax is charged? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

Currently, no tax is charged on the purchase of any print book (subject to change based on the laws and regulations). A localized VAT fee is charged only to our European and UK customers on eBooks, Video and subscriptions that they buy. GST is charged to Indian customers for eBooks and video purchases.

What payment methods can I use? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

You can pay with the following card types:

  1. Visa Debit
  2. Visa Credit
  3. MasterCard
  4. PayPal
What is the delivery time and cost of print books? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

Shipping Details

USA:

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Economy: Delivery to most addresses in the US within 10-15 business days

Premium: Trackable Delivery to most addresses in the US within 3-8 business days

UK:

Economy: Delivery to most addresses in the U.K. within 7-9 business days.
Shipments are not trackable

Premium: Trackable delivery to most addresses in the U.K. within 3-4 business days!
Add one extra business day for deliveries to Northern Ireland and Scottish Highlands and islands

EU:

Premium: Trackable delivery to most EU destinations within 4-9 business days.

Australia:

Economy: Can deliver to P. O. Boxes and private residences.
Trackable service with delivery to addresses in Australia only.
Delivery time ranges from 7-9 business days for VIC and 8-10 business days for Interstate metro
Delivery time is up to 15 business days for remote areas of WA, NT & QLD.

Premium: Delivery to addresses in Australia only
Trackable delivery to most P. O. Boxes and private residences in Australia within 4-5 days based on the distance to a destination following dispatch.

India:

Premium: Delivery to most Indian addresses within 5-6 business days

Rest of the World:

Premium: Countries in the American continent: Trackable delivery to most countries within 4-7 business days

Asia:

Premium: Delivery to most Asian addresses within 5-9 business days

Disclaimer:
All orders received before 5 PM U.K time would start printing from the next business day. So the estimated delivery times start from the next day as well. Orders received after 5 PM U.K time (in our internal systems) on a business day or anytime on the weekend will begin printing the second to next business day. For example, an order placed at 11 AM today will begin printing tomorrow, whereas an order placed at 9 PM tonight will begin printing the day after tomorrow.


Unfortunately, due to several restrictions, we are unable to ship to the following countries:

  1. Afghanistan
  2. American Samoa
  3. Belarus
  4. Brunei Darussalam
  5. Central African Republic
  6. The Democratic Republic of Congo
  7. Eritrea
  8. Guinea-bissau
  9. Iran
  10. Lebanon
  11. Libiya Arab Jamahriya
  12. Somalia
  13. Sudan
  14. Russian Federation
  15. Syrian Arab Republic
  16. Ukraine
  17. Venezuela