Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Business Processes

Audience

IT staff needing to understand how business processes can be moved to SharePoint.

Prerequisites

This course assumes that you are familiar with Windows 2003 or above.

Duration

2 days. Hands on.

Course Objectives

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides a wealth of services that you can use, customize, and extend to augment and streamline your business processes. This course covers these features and teaches you how to build on them to create business solutions. The beginning of the course orients you with the built-in capabilities and teaches how to customize them using SharePoint Designer. From there you will learn how to create custom forms using both ASP.NET and InfoPath.

The second half of the course teaches how to build custom workflows in SharePoint using Visual Studio and covers sequential workflows, state machines, tasks, and custom workflow forms using both ASP.NET and InfoPath. You will fully appreciate how business processes can be implemented using SharePoint 2007.

Course Content

Introduction - Out of the Box BPA
· Understanding Business Process Automation
· Using Task Lists
· Creating and Using Alerts
· Out of the Box Workflows

SharePoint Designer Workflows
· Understanding the Workflow Designer
· Defining Steps Using Conditions and Actions
· Using Lookups and Dynamic Routing
· Creating Forms and Using Variables
· Extending SharePoint Designer with Custom Activities

SharePoint and ASP.NET Forms
· Modifying List Forms Using SharePoint Designer
· Creating Custom Applications with SharePoint Designer
· Creating Custom ASP.NET Pages with Visual Studio

InfoPath Forms
· Creating InfoPath Forms
· Using Form Libraries and Data Connection Libraries
· Using InfoPath Forms in Office 2007

Workflow Development Basics
· Using Visual Studio to Create Custom Workflows
· Associating Workflow Templates with Lists Using Code
· Starting Workflows Using Code
· Using the SharePoint Object Model to Pass Association and Startup Data to a Workflow

Creating Custom Workflows
· Creating Sequential Workflows
· Creating State Machine Workflows
· Handling Faults and Cancelled Workflows
· Creating Custom Workflow Activities

Tasks and Workflows
· Use the Task Activities
· Understand and Use Correlation Tokens
· Use Tasks in State Machine Workflows
· Handle Multiple Tasks in Parallel or in a Sequence
· Create and Use Custom Task Types

Workflow Forms
· Understand the Differences between InfoPath and ASP.NET Workflow Forms
· Create and Use an InfoPath Association Form
· Create and Use an InfoPath Task Form
· Create and Use an ASP.NET Initiation Form
· Create and Use an ASP.NET Modification Form