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02 | Lists and Sites

Chris Johnson | SharePoint Guru

Christopher Harrison | Microsoft Certified Trainer

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Module Overview

omponent Overview

Defining ustom Lists

Defining ustom Sites

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Lesson 1: Component Overview

The omponent Hierarchy

Site olumns

Site ontent Types

List olumns and ontent Types

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The Component Hierarchy

Web application

Site Collection

Site Site columns

Site content types

List/Library Columns/Fields

Content types

List item

Column/Field

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Site Columns

Definition not implementation

Scopes Site

Properties Display name Internal name Data type

Group Required

Creation Declarative SharePoint Object Model SharePoint UI

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Site Content Types

Collection of columns

Definition not implementation Scopes

Site

Hierarchical Item

Announcement Document Folder Custom

Creation Declarative SharePoint Object Model

SharePoint UI

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List Columns and Content Types

SiteSite Column Site Content Type

List

List Column

Copy of site column

Standalone list

column

List Content Type

Copies columns froContent Type

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DEMOCreating Site Columns and Content Types

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Lesson 2: Defining Custom Lists

Introduction to List Templates

Developing List Templates

The Visual Studio List Designer

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Introduction to List Templates

Define list template

Content types Fields

Views

Forms

Create list instance Declarative (Feature)

Programmatic (SharePoint object model)

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Developing List Templates

List template Feature Feature.xml file (in the root of the Feature folder)

Manifest.xmlfile (optionally in a sub-folder, can have any name, but must be refeFeature.xml file)

ListName folder (determined by the value of the Nameattribute of the ListTempmanifest)

Schema.xml file

Manifest.xml

Schema.xml

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The Visual Studio List Designer

Manage

Columns Content types

Views

Title

Url

Description

Faster (select from lists, no need to lookup GUIDs)

Easier (no need to write XML)

Reduced risk (less chance of typographical error)

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DEMODefining Lists and List Templates

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Lesson 3: Defining Custom Sites

Introduction to Site Definitions and Web Templates

Developing a Site Definition Declaratively

Deploying Site Definitions

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Introduction to Site Definitions and Web Tem

Site definition

Deploy with a farm solution Not dependent on any other component

Time consuming to develop

Cached by the IIS worker process for performance

Web template Deploy with a sandboxed or farm solution

Dependent on source site definition

Fast to develop SPWeb.SaveAsTemplate

Not cached for performance

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Developing a Site Definition Declarativel

Webtemp*.xml

Template and configuration definitions

Onet.xml Site content and structure

Supporting files (pages, images, and so on)

Assemblies

D l i Si D fi i i

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Deploying Site Definitions

webtemp.*.xml

15\TEMPLATE\LCID\XML

Assemblies Global assembly cache

Everything else (including onet.xml file) 15\TEMPLATE\SiteTemplates\SiteTemplateName

15\TEMPLATE\SiteTemplates\SiteTemplateName\XML\on

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DEMOCreating a Simple Site Definition

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