Building the SharePoint User Experience

✍ Scribed by Bjørn Christoffer Thorsmæhlum Furuknap

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 378
• Series: Expert's Voice in Sharepoint
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

If you are not developer (or not involved in heavy development), this is not book for you. I thought there is no good SharePoint book out there (as other reviews mentioned). I couldn't find info that this book has in dozens of other books from different SharePoint/MOSS "experts". Glad I found a book that puts together lot of the core info that I had to dig from all kinds of sources.

Book itself is easy read (though you should have some introduction to SharePoint first I guess) and is valuable if read from cover to cover and later as a reference.

It is not ultimate source for the SharePoint (If there was such it would be at least 10K pages long), but will give you good understanding and reference material of core SharePoint stuff that you as a developer have to know or understand if you are serious enough about the work you do.

This book may not be best source for
- Installing/Configuring/Administering SharePoint/MOSS server
- Using SharePoint/MOSS UI and doing stuff through the UI (but may help you)
- Using SharePoint Designer (though may help)
- Explaining all different OOTB SharePoint/MOSS web parts and tweaks
- Explaining all kinds of different features in SharePoint/MOSS (though you would be surprised what tricks it can teach you)

✦ Table of Contents

Prelims
......Page 1
Contents at a Glance......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
About the Author......Page 15
About the Technical Reviewer......Page 17
Acknowledgments......Page 19
Introduction......Page 21
Setting Up Your Environment......Page 25
SharePoint Manager 2007......Page 28
Benefits of SharePoint Manager 2007......Page 29
Danger, Will Robinson!......Page 31
.NET Reflector......Page 32
WSPBuilder Extensions for Visual Studio......Page 34
Site Setup......Page 37
That’s a Wrap......Page 39
XML: A Definition......Page 41
XML Syntax......Page 42
Elements......Page 43
XML Declarations......Page 44
Namespaces......Page 45
Storing Markup in Markup......Page 47
The SharePoint XSD......Page 49
CAML......Page 51
CAML.net......Page 52
U2U CAML Query Builder Solution......Page 53
XSLT......Page 54
......Page 55
Creating a Basic Feature in Visual Studio......Page 57
What Are SharePoint Features?......Page 59
Feature Event Handlers......Page 61
Feature Activation Dependency......Page 62
Resources......Page 63
Feature Stapling......Page 66
Site Definitions vs. Features......Page 67
Featured Finale......Page 68
The Plan for Exploration......Page 71
Mission Objective......Page 73
The [12] Hive TEMPLATE Folder......Page 74
webtemp.xml......Page 75
VisibilityFeatureDependency......Page 78
onet.xml......Page 79
Project......Page 80
DocumentTemplates......Page 83
Configurations......Page 85
Team Site Default Features......Page 90
Modules......Page 92
File......Page 93
Working with Web Parts in a Site Definition......Page 96
What’s the Global Site Configuration?......Page 100
Resources, Helpful Hints, and the Future......Page 102
Disclaimer......Page 105
Customizing Menus and Lists......Page 106
MenuItemTemplate......Page 108
FeatureMenuTemplate......Page 110
CustomAction......Page 113
Using Control Templates......Page 118
Overview of Control Templates......Page 119
Manipulating the Control Templates......Page 121
Using Feature Stapling......Page 123
Customizing Application Pages: Master Pages, CSS, and Themes......Page 124
Using Delegate Controls......Page 125
Last Stop......Page 127
Overview of Lists......Page 129
The Road Ahead......Page 130
Lists in Site Definitions......Page 132
A Note on List Instances in Site Definitions......Page 136
Lists in Features......Page 137
A Deep Dive into Email-Enabled Lists......Page 138
ListTemplate Element......Page 144
schema.xml......Page 155
List Forms......Page 158
Form Templates......Page 161
Preparing for the Final Battle......Page 166
Mission Statement......Page 167
What Are Views Anyway?......Page 168
A Web Interface with a View......Page 169
A Simple View of the World......Page 172
Toolbars......Page 174
Asking the Right Questions......Page 177
A Slightly More Complex View of the World......Page 179
Basics of View Construction......Page 180
ViewEmpty......Page 181
RowLimit and Other Paging Options......Page 182
Conditional Elements......Page 183
ViewHeader, ViewBody, and ViewFooter......Page 185
URL......Page 188
Sorting It All Out......Page 189
Grouping......Page 190
Permissions and Security Trimming......Page 193
Wrapping It All Up......Page 196
Face the Dragon......Page 197
Content Type Basics......Page 199
List vs. Site Content Types......Page 201
Keep Your Parents Happy......Page 205
OK, Back to Content Type Inheritance......Page 207
So, What About Those Folders?......Page 209
Content Type Scope......Page 211
“Scoping Content Types for Webs? Hah, That’s Not Possible!”......Page 213
Your Best Behavior......Page 214
Content Type Authoring......Page 215
ContentType Element......Page 216
FieldRefs......Page 219
XmlDocuments......Page 221
Attaching Event Receivers to List Templates Using Features......Page 224
Attaching Event Receivers to Content Types Using Features......Page 225
The End of the Ice Age......Page 226
Columns and Properties of Gold?......Page 229
Site Columns vs. List Columns......Page 230
Site Columns in CAML......Page 231
ContentType......Page 233
Title......Page 237
Picking Up the Pace......Page 238
LinkTitle......Page 239
Columns in Content Types......Page 241
Field Types......Page 242
Field......Page 243
RenderPattern......Page 245
We Made It!......Page 249
SharePoint Is a Platform, Not a Product......Page 251
To Boldly Go…......Page 252
Use the Right Tools......Page 253
Enough Already!......Page 254
A Note on Custom Field Types......Page 257
Your First Field Type......Page 258
Field Type Classes......Page 261
Custom Field Type Class......Page 262
Some Advice on Custom Field Types......Page 269
Custom Field Properties......Page 270
Columns......Page 272
Adding More Columns......Page 273
Lookup Columns......Page 275
Our Empire So Far......Page 278
Content Type Startup......Page 279
Content Type Columns......Page 283
Time to Get Serious: Content Type Forms......Page 286
Preventing News Deletion and Category Change......Page 290
Binding the Pieces Together......Page 294
Stop Being Cool......Page 295
List Templates......Page 297
Adding Content Types to Our List......Page 302
List Forms......Page 305
List Instances......Page 307
Adding the Categories List......Page 308
It All Depends on This…......Page 310
Fixing the List Deletion Problem......Page 311
Accountants, Go Home!......Page 312
Basics of Page Authoring in SharePoint......Page 313
Adding a Global Page and a Code-Behind......Page 321
Last Page......Page 329
Creating the Site Definition......Page 331
Your Empire Is Complete......Page 346
WSPBuilder......Page 347
WSPBuilder......Page 348
Make SharePoint Work for You......Page 352
Content Type Generation......Page 353
The Fast Track to Custom Views......Page 354
Time to Slow Down......Page 355
Question 1......Page 357
Question 3......Page 358
Question 5......Page 359
Question 6......Page 360
Question 7......Page 361
Question 8......Page 362
Index......Page 363