SharePoint Designer Training

I am currently up in the sugar capital of Australia, Mackay delivering a 3 day SharePoint designer training course.

Lots of cool things learned:

• Embedding/displaying videos from a document library in a web page
• Branding: Custom master page design, CSS and overriding core.css
• Integrate Twitter into your site
• DataView Web Part: integration with databases, web services and rss (and sharepoint rollups)
• IE Developer Toolbar is your best friend

And why are those Fab 40 templates so crap!

User Group Presentation – Content Query Web Part – Part 2

I completed my Part 2 presentation on the CQWP today. I thought that the rain may have kept the numbers down so it was great to see a good turn out.

Topic Covered:

• How and where best to use – plan ahead
• Displaying extra columns in result set
• Modifying the ItemStyle.xsl and .webpart files
• XSLT
• Tips and tricks – (thanks Tim for the select=.) tip
• Subclassing using Visual Studio
• Deployment

 

I always need more time presenting at user groups.

Slide deck and demos will be uploaded to the BSPUG site soon.