Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Business Processes, Part 1 of 4

Course description

Microsoft Office SharePoint 2010 Server 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 last 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.

Each LearnNowOnline training course is made up of Modules (typically an hour in length). Within each module there are Topics (typically 15-30 minutes each) and Subtopics (typically 2-5 minutes each). There is a Post Exam for each Module that must be passed with a score of 70% or higher to successfully and fully complete the course.

Meet the expert

Robert Green

Robert Green is a Visual Studio expert and a featured instructor for several of our Visual Basic and Visual C# courses. He is currently a Technical Evangelist in the Developer Platform and Evangelism (DPE) group at Microsoft. He has also worked for Microsoft on the Developer Tools marketing team and as Community Lead on the Visual Basic team. Robert has several years of consulting experience focused on developer training and is a frequent speaker at technology conferences including TechEd, VSLive, VSConnections, and Advisor Live.

Video Runtime

83 Minutes

Time to complete

123 Minutes

Course Outline

Module 1

SharePoint BPA (28:52)

• Introduction (02:37)
• Business Process Automation (01:42)
• Using SharePoint for BPA (01:00)
• Using SharePoint Lists (00:47)
• SharePoint Task List Templates (00:45)
• Demo: SharePoint Task List (11:10)
• Creating and Using Alerts (01:06)
• Active Alerts in SharePoint (00:58)
• Demo: Active Alerts (04:44)
• Passive Alerts in SharePoint (00:54)
• Demo: Passive Alerts (03:02)
• Summary (00:02)

Out of the Box Workflows (12:11)

• Introduction (00:15)
• Using Out-of-the-Box Workflows (01:20)
• SharePoint Server Workflows (00:12)
• Approval Workflow (00:24)
• Three-State Workflow (00:31)
• Other Workflows (00:59)
• Modifying Running Workflows (00:23)
• Workflow History (00:39)
• Demo: Workflows (06:28)
• Summary (00:56)

Module 2

SharePoint Designer Workflows (22:18)

• Introduction (00:50)
• SharePoint Workflow Features (01:02)
• SharePoint Designer Workflows (01:22)
• Workflow Events (00:12)
• Workflow Actions (00:26)
• Workflow Conditions (01:02)
• Workflow Steps (01:00)
• Demo: Designer Workflows (16:18)
• Summary (00:02)

Variables and Forms (20:15)

• Introduction (00:15)
• Workflow Variables and Forms (00:47)
• Workflow Variables (00:31)
• Demo: Workflow Variables (11:21)
• Workflow Forms (01:56)
• Integration with Visio (01:01)
• Reusable Workflows (01:37)
• Site Workflows (00:00)
• Demo: Integration with Visio (02:11)
• Summary (00:33)