where did design view go in sharepoint designer
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Where Did Design View Go In SharePoint Designer?!The Role of the SharePoint 2013 Power UserPatrick O’Toole. Consultant, Slalom Consulting
Introduction
Seriously, Where did Design View Go?
Who are Power Users & Why Do I Care?
Comparison of SharePoint 2010 & SharePoint 2013
Drinks
Introduction
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Patrick O’Toole
Slalom Consulting
University of Illinois
Capricorn
@OToolePatrick
Seriously, Where Did Design View Go?
Seriously, Where Did Design 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
Who are the Power Users and Why Do I Care?
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Who Are Power Users?
Middle Tier Developer
No-Code Specialist
SharePoint Designer/InfoPath Developer
Site or Site Collection Admin
Business Users
Developers
Architects
IT Pros
Power Users
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What the Power User 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 functionalityLook & Feel / Branding
Data Presentation / Business Intelligence
Business Process Integration and Data Collection
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Why Do I Care?
Some topics will directly impact your work
Understanding the changes in the role of the Power User help with:
Planning & Project ManagementCreating GovernanceTrainingSupportAdoption
Comparison of SharePoint 2010 & SharePoint 2013How they used to do it and how and how they will now do it
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Comparison of SharePoint 2010/2013
Look & Feel / Branding
Data Presentation / Business Intelligence
Business Process Integration and Data Collection
Other Items/Improvements
Quick HTML Editing
Customizing the Layout of a Single Page
Creating Page Layouts
Creating and Applying a Theme
Look & Feel / Branding
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Quick HTML Editing
SharePoint 2010 – Woof! SharePoint 2013 – A little better
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Customizing the Layout of a Page (### Consider Removing)
SharePoint 2010 – Through SharePoint Designer it was easy to:
Add Web Part ZonesResize Web Part Zones
SharePoint 2013 – No Design ViewCould use tables and quick HTML Editing
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Creating Page Layouts
SharePoint 2010
Copy & Paste Existing Page Layout (at Site Collection Level)
Drag controls around, delete controls, etc.
SharePoint 2013 – More difficult without design view
Conclusion: Only Devs will Work with Page Layouts
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Creating & Applying Themes
SharePoint 2010Edit colors/fonts from an Out of the Box Theme (shown below)Create .thmx file from PowerPoint and upload to Theme Gallery
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Creating & Applying Themes
SharePoint 2013Themes are now part of “Composed Looks”Composed Looks combine any combination of
MasterPages CSS file(s)Color palletsFont schemes (optional) Background image (optional)
Editing of Composed Looks is simple but lacks functionality*
Custom Composed Looks too difficult?
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Creating & Applying Themes
Editing Out of Box SharePoint 2013 Composed Look
Very simple
Can’t edit individual colors in browser
Need to do this with “Code” or “Theme Slots Tool” (Link)
Creating & Applying Themes
Custom Composed Look in SharePoint 2013
.spcolor file
.spfont file (optional)Master Page & CSSBackground image (optional)Associate Composed Look to masterpage, spcolor file, etc.
.spcolor file – the hard way.spfont fileMasterPage/CSS
Creating & Applying Themes
Creating .spcolor file – the easy way
Creating & Applying Themes
ConclusionPower Users Might Create .spcolor files the easy wayDevelopers likely needed to help with everything elseGovernance needed
Data View Web Parts
Quick List Modifications
Search & Content Query Web Part
Data Presentation & BI
Data View Web Parts
Create DVWPs
Create Related Data Sources
Can still edit XSL to change formatting
Data View Web Parts
### Screenshot of typical DVWP application
Quick List Modifications
Editing Column Widths
Quick List Modifications
Conditional FormattingSPD 2013
SPD 2010
Search & Query – SharePoint 2010
Content Query Web PartScope: Site CollectionCan filter/sort by Site ColumnsCan show up URL, image, title & description Several OOB styles, can create custom ones
Search Results Web PartScope: Anything crawledCan style with XSL
Search & Query – SharePoint 2010
Screenshot CQWP & Search Web part ###
Search & Query – SharePoint 2013
Content Search Web PartScope: anything crawledLots of options for queriesDisplay Templates & Item Display Templates (HTML)
List Forms onto Pages (###)
SharePoint Designer Workflows
InfoPath
Access Services
Business Process Integration & Data Collection
SharePoint Designer Workflows
SharePoint 2010Very valuable tool for Power Users
SharePoint 2013Amazing!Covered in detail in prior ChDevSPUGLoops & StagesNeed to call SP2010 workflows
InfoPath2013 2010
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Access
Access and SharePoint 2013Can create access App on any siteApp-Web / Host-Web conceptEasily integrate with lists from host-webEasy to create “simple” formsMacros can be created (by devs or power users)
Access
Forms
Access
Connecting to SharePoint Lists
Access
Example
Access
When to use Access AppsMigrate & Manage existing Access Apps on SharePointSmall, temporary applications with relational dataApplications for departments or small companiesWhen Access & InfoPath can solve a business problem – consider Access first
Remember: Sometimes you need a robust reporting tool
Business Process Integration
ConclusionEncourageSharePoint Designer WorkflowsAccess Apps
DiscourageInfoPath Forms – although they certainly have their place
Questions!?
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