This is the third article in a six-part series on ASP.NET Master Pages and SharePoint. In the previous two articles of this series we discussed master pages and how SharePoint uses them to create it’s out of the box pages. Now that we have an understanding of how master pages work and how SharePoint uses them, we can start showing how to develop custom master pages. In this article we are going to concentrate on editing master pages in SharePoint Designer.
Welcome again students to part 5 of the CleverWorkArounds Institute Body of Knowledge (CIBOK). As you know, the highly prestigious industry certification, the CleverWorkarounds Certified Leave Form Developer (CCLFD) requires candidates to demonstrate proficiency in all aspects of vacation/leave forms. Parts 1-4 of this series covered the introductory material, and now we move into the more advanced topic areas.
This is the third article in a six-part series on ASP.NET Master Pages and SharePoint. In the previous two articles of this series we discussed master pages and how SharePoint uses them to create it’s out of the box pages. Now that we have an understanding of how master pages work and how SharePoint uses them, we can start showing how to develop custom master pages. In this article we are going to concentrate on editing master pages in SharePoint Designer.
This the second post of a six part series on Leveraging the SharePoint Platform. In the first post I introduced at a high level the Capabilities, the Editions, the Infrastructure and the API of the SharePoint Platform. In this post I will give my own opinion on what capabilities to start with and what ones to use Open Source/Partner Solutions with or to wait for SharePoint 2009.
There are more than 20,000 SharePoint licensees in North America. The number of SharePoint users is in the one million range. SharePoint is one of Microsoft’s success stories, cementing the company’s grip on the crucial enterprise content management. Exact data are not available, but one thing is clear-SharePoint is a widely used content management and [...]
This article builds upon the prior two discussions and begins to build out the customization scenario. The goal of this article is to build out a new search scope based on a content source from the Business Data Catalog (BDC).
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There are more than 20,000 SharePoint licensees in North America. The number of SharePoint users is in the one million range. SharePoint is one of Microsoft’s success stories, cementing the company’s grip on the crucial enterprise content management. Exact data are not available, but one thing is clear-SharePoint is a widely used content management and [...]
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SharePoint Magazine author Arno Nel had a chat with Mike Fitzmaurice about Nintex Reporting.
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As they say, let’s start at the very beginning. Business Intelligence (as if I need to explain it to you!) is a generic term used to describe the technology and processes whose primary purpose is to monitor, analyse and plan thereby driving Business Process Improvement, which is, shock horror(!!), according to the same Gartner research, the Number 1 business priority… who’da thunk it!
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In this article will discuss the out of the box master pages in SharePoint in order to gain an understanding of how SharePoint customized the out of the box site. We will examine the master page gallery, dynamic token replacement techniques, and the general architecture of SharePoint master pages. These same techniques will be used to build our own, customized SharePoint sites.
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