SharePoint 2003 Advanced Concepts: Site Definitions, Custom Templates, and Global Customizations (Microsoft Windows Server System Series),Books,Free Shipping,0321336615,

SharePoint 2003 Advanced Concepts: Site Definitions, Custom Templates, and Global Customizations (Microsoft Windows Server System Series)
by Jason Nadrowski, Stacy Draper

List Price $39.99

Our Price $28.51

You Save $11.48 (29%)
Prices subject to change.

Eligible for FREE Shipping See details

Availability Usually ships in 24 hours

Marketplace New from $16.00
Used from $8.44

Product Details

Binding Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number 004.68
EAN 9780321336613
ISBN 0321336615
Manufacturer Addison-Wesley Professional
Number Of Items 1
Number Of Pages 288
Publication Date March 18, 2006
Publisher Addison-Wesley Professional
Availability Usually ships in 24 hours

Product Description

In SharePoint 2003 Advanced Concepts, two world-class SharePoint consultants show how to make SharePoint 'jump through hoops' for you--and do exactly what you want. Jason Nadrowski and Stacy Draper have built some of the most diverse SharePoint enterprise implementations. Now, drawing on their extraordinary 'in the trenches' experience, they present solutions, techniques, and examples you simply won't find anywhere else. SharePoint 2003 Advanced Concepts addresses every facet of SharePoint customization, from site definitions and templates to document libraries and custom properties. The authors cover both Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and illuminate SharePoint's interactions with other technologies--helping you troubleshoot problems far more effectively. Next time you encounter a tough SharePoint development challenge, don't waste time: get your proven solution right here, in SharePoint 2003 Advanced Concepts./ Construct more powerful site and list templates / Control how SharePoint uses ghosted and unghosted pages / Use custom site definitions to gain finer control over your site / Build list definitions with custom metadata, views, and forms / Troubleshoot WEBTEMP, ONET.XML, SCHEMA.XML, SharePoint databases, and their interactions / Create custom property types to extend SharePoint's functionality / Integrate with other systems and SharePoint sites so that you can use their information more effectively / Customize themes and interactive Help, one step at a time / Customize email alerts and system notifications / Extend the capabilities of document libraries / Control document display and behavior based on extensions

In SharePoint 2003 Advanced Concepts, two world-class SharePoint consultants show how to make SharePoint 'jump through hoops' for you--and do exactly what you want. Jason Nadrowski and Stacy Draper have built some of the most diverse SharePoint enterprise implementations. Now, drawing on their extraordinary 'in the trenches' experience, they present solutions, techniques, and examples you simply won't find anywhere else. SharePoint 2003 Advanced Concepts addresses every facet of SharePoint customization, from site definitions and templates to document libraries and custom properties. The authors cover both Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and illuminate SharePoint's interactions with other technologies--helping you troubleshoot problems far more effectively. Next time you encounter a tough SharePoint development challenge, don't waste time: get your proven solution right here, in SharePoint 2003 Advanced Concepts./ Construct more powerful site and list templates / Control how SharePoint uses ghosted and unghosted pages / Use custom site definitions to gain finer control over your site / Build list definitions with custom metadata, views, and forms / Troubleshoot WEBTEMP, ONET.XML, SCHEMA.XML, SharePoint databases, and their interactions / Create custom property types to extend SharePoint's functionality / Integrate with other systems and SharePoint sites so that you can use their information more effectively / Customize themes and interactive Help, one step at a time / Customize email alerts and system notifications / Extend the capabilities of document libraries / Control document display and behavior based on extensions

In SharePoint 2003 Advanced Concepts, two world-class SharePoint consultants show how to make SharePoint “jump through hoops” for you–and do exactly what you want.

Jason Nadrowski and Stacy Draper have built some of the most diverse SharePoint enterprise implementations. Now, drawing on their extraordinary “in the trenches” experience, they present solutions, techniques, and examples you simply won’t find anywhere else.

SharePoint 2003 Advanced Concepts addresses every facet of SharePoint customization, from site definitions and templates to document libraries and custom properties. The authors cover both Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and illuminate SharePoint’s interactions with other technologies–helping you troubleshoot problems far more effectively.

Next time you encounter a tough SharePoint development challenge, don’t waste time: get your proven solution right here, in SharePoint 2003 Advanced Concepts.

• Construct more powerful site and list templates

• Control how SharePoint uses ghosted and unghosted pages

• Use custom site definitions to gain finer control over your site

• Build list definitions with custom metadata, views, and forms

• Troubleshoot WEBTEMP, ONET.XML, SCHEMA.XML, SharePoint databases, and their interactions

• Create custom property types to extend SharePoint’s functionality

• Integrate with other systems and SharePoint sites so that you can use their information more effectively

• Customize themes and interactive Help, one step at a time

• Customize email alerts and system notifications

• Extend the capabilities of document libraries

• Control document display and behavior based on extensions

Jason Nadrowski is managing partner of Information Hub (www.informationhub.com). Jason’s focus at the firm is both architecting and managing enterprise technology solutions. Jason has helped a number of Fortune 50 companies architect some of the largest SharePoint implementations. Jason holds the Microsoft certifications MCSD, MCAD, MCDBA, and MCSE. He also holds the PMI’s PMP^® (Project Management Professional) certification and a number of other accreditations. He graduated from the University of Florida with a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Stacy Draper is an independent consultant based in South Florida. Being involved with web development since 1993 has led his life in a very interesting direction. He started out in UNIX and since 1997 has had a strong concentration in Microsoft technologies. Stacy has spoken at conferences large and small and has worked at some well-known and some not well-known companies. In his consulting practice, Wild Wires, LLC, Stacy has always had a practical view and hopes to paint a vivid picture of that view in the pages of this book.

Preface

There is a lot to SharePoint Portal Server and Windows SharePoint Services; even so, it is finite. We originally wanted to write a book about everything that SharePoint has to offer. As we were writing, books kept coming out, more and more content was available on the Internet, and we didn't want to write about topics that were covered well elsewhere. What we ended up with is a book jammed full of information that was noticeably absent from the SharePoint community.

The techniques we talk about in this book were born out of necessity. We worked on completely different projects and realized that we were having the same problems. Not readily finding solutions to our problems, we discovered the need for this content. When we approached Addison-Wesley, there were already several books on the market. The publisher wanted to know why our book was going to be a good one. The answer was pretty simple—we have lived and breathed the product and have had to solve real business problems. We've been in the trenches with the product and know it intimately. We know what works and what doesn't work in the real world. We're not a couple of authors who have friends or went to college with folks in the product group. We are hands-on architects/programmers who know the product and how to will it to our ways.

To keep things interesting for both the reader and for us, we wrote in a way that will expose you, the reader, to many of the inner workings of SharePoint without becoming a boring reference manual. You'll see problems that we tried to solve and what we did to come up with solutions for those problems. Your problems might not be exactly the same as ours. As a matter of fact, I'm sure the problems won't be identical. But you should find that the problems you encounter with SharePoint in your enterprise can be solved with the solutions we describe. Exposure to these solutions will enable you to explore other areas of SharePoint otherwise hidden from view.

The SharePoint product family seems to touch everything in the Microsoft world. The SharePoint product line relies on servers such as the Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server and leans heavily on Active Directory, ASP.net, and even a lot of JavaScript. From the user interface side, the Office products make an appearance. All these technologies make SharePoint a tough animal to deal with in terms of a technical tool set. Working with SharePoint sometimes takes relying on a small army of highly skilled folks to pull off a successful implementation or modification—point being, the technologies that are used are many. This certainly shouldn't be your first technology book and probably shouldn't even be the first SharePoint book you own. This book is for people who have wrestled with SharePoint and have tried to make SharePoint behave in a way that it probably wasn't originally designed to do. The person who will benefit most from a book like this might be saying something like, 'If I could just make it do this one thing, then everything else would just fall together!'

Organization of This Book

We organized the content of the book into the following chapters.

Chapter 1: Custom Templates

Site templates and list templates are something that end users can work with. They are a great way to empower end users. Sometimes little things can be done to make the SharePoint experience go a long way. This chapter demonstrates the ins and outs of working with site templates and list templates.

Chapter 2: Site Definitions

Site definitions are not the most intuitive thing. In fact, site definitions are quite different from traditional ASPX applications. Chapter 2 explains the use and development of site definitions, while navigating around their more common pitfalls. In this chapter, you'll work with several configuration files. You'll get down to the technical details to make SharePoint a more pliable application.

Chapter 3: Site Definitions: Exploring List Definitions

If it weren't for lists, there wouldn't be much of a SharePoint product at all. Lists are one of those great features found in SharePoint that empower users to create what they need. Even though list definitions are part of site definitions, there is so much to know about lists that it warrants a dedicated chapter. This chapter exposes you to every detail of creating a list definition.

Chapter 4: Customizing and Implementing Property Types in Windows SharePoint Services

Lists are great things. They enable users to create a table of information fairly quickly and present it to other users in a manner that is readily consumable. Of course, there are a couple shortcomings. The first is a lack of a custom property type. The second and most common shortcoming is the need to integrate with other systems. The inability to pull in key information from another system or even another WSS site can be a showstopper. This chapter shows you how to create custom properties—be it for retrieving information stored in another system or for other special functionality.

Chapter 5: Global Customizations

We close the book with a chapter that applies to SharePoint holistically. Customizing themes and help are explained thoroughly. Other common customizations, such as email alerts, and system notifications, such as the site collection retention warning, are also covered. Document libraries are quite powerful as they are, but there is always room for improvement. Detailed information is provided to make documents display and behave differently based on their extensions.

Appendix: Custom_JS.ASPX

The appendix includes a complete listing of the CUSTOM_JS.ASPX file that is discussed in Chapter 4.

Notations

The LCID figures prominently in SharePoint's physical and virtual paths. The LCID for your deployment is based on the particular SharePoint media you have procured. The English version of SharePoint has an LCID of 1033. Because this book was authored in English, we will go out on a limb and presume that most people who read this book have the English version of SharePoint. So, if you are trying to access a path that has 1033 in it, and it doesn't seem to exist, substitute 1033 for your LCID.

Available Language Packs for SharePoint

Language	SharePoint LCID
English	1033
Japanese	1041
German	1031
French	1036
Spanish	3082
Italian	1040
Dutch	1043
Swedish	1053
Danish	1030
Finnish	1035
Norwegian	1044
Customers who bought this item also bought Microsoft SharePoint 2003 For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech)) Advanced SharePoint Services Solutions (Books for Professionals by Professionals) The Rational Guide to Building SharePoint Web Parts (Rational Guides) Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft SharePoint 2003 in 10 Minutes (Sams Teach Yourself) Beginning SharePoint Administration: Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server (Wrox Beginning Guides) Customer Reviews for: SharePoint 2003 Advanced Concepts: Site Definitions, Custom Templates, and Global Customizations (Microsoft Windows Server System Series) Rating - Great in-depth info for a very under documented topic Jason & Stacy have done a great job digging into the details of site definitions. You rarely find this level of depth in available resources, including in the WSS/SPS SDK or MSDN. Wish I had this a long time ago! Rating - Best Book so far on the topic... While there are other books that have been published in the past year on the topic of SharePoint and customizations and what not, I would have to say that this book brings all the pieces together, gives the explanations to UI developers, administrators and developers that they need. Rating - A Serious Book on SharePoint Even though it is not a big book in pages, it is an excellent book in content! The core of the book focuses on creating site definitions; with many excellent examples and useful tips. Other topics covered include template construction, definitions for Lists and customization of themes and alerts. There is other information on SharePoint which address these issues, but this is the only book wherein the information is centralized and readily ... Read More Rating - Real examples for Advanced Developers I enjoyed reading this book and easily flew through it over a few sessions during a week. It was easy to follow, has in-depth examples, excellent documentation and inside tips about the sharepoint application configuration. Best of all the Authors were able to not only walk the reader through the examples, but also they were careful to point out the places that a person could easily expand on their work while covering the pro's and con's of the approach. ... Read More see more reviews See all books by author Jason Nadrowski, Stacy Draper

0321336615,0321336615,9780321336613,Addison-Wesley Professional,004.68

Books : SharePoint 2003 Advanced Concepts: Site Definitions, Custom Templates, and Global Customizations (Microsoft Windows Server System Series)

Preface

Organization of This Book

Notations

Available Language Packs for SharePoint