Chapter 6. Building Pages

Most SharePoint pages are made up of web parts. In Chapter 1 and Chapter 3, I showed you how to add web parts to a page and how to set the properties of those parts to change their appearance. In this chapter, I'll show you how to:

  • Customize list web parts by converting them to data views.

  • Connect web parts to create summary/detail views.

  • Copy customized web parts to other pages and deploy them to other sites.

  • Develop client-side web parts using JavaScript and other techniques.

  • Apply filters to web parts on a page.

  • Customize page layout and navigation with master pages.

These are the advanced techniques that you need to design and build effective SharePoint pages. These skills don't require a lot of programming knowledge, but some knowledge of HTML, JavaScript, and XML/XSL will come in handy.

Tip

You will need SharePoint Designer to complete some of the tasks in this chapter.

Using the Built-in Web Parts

SharePoint includes a set of built-in web parts that you can add to any page. Table 6-1,Table 6-2 and Table 6-3 list the web parts that come with SharePoint.

Table 6-1. Built-in web parts

Category

Web part

Use to

Lists and Libraries

List View

Display a view of a list or library on a page.

 

Data View

Create highly customized views of lists and libraries using SharePoint Designer.

Miscellaneous

Content Editor

Include HTML and JavaScript on a page.

 

Form

Connect form controls to other web parts.

 

Image

Display an image from a URL.

 

Page Viewer

Display another page as an IFrame ...

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