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At the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009, I had the distinct pleasure to present the Introduction to SharePoint Designer 2010 session. The early estimates are that over 1000 people attended that session. I personally had a real good time talking about SharePoint Designer since, aside from the facts that it’s my favorite tool to customize SharePoint and that I co-authored the book on SharePoint Designer 2007, so many enhancements have been made to this product that I didn’t have to use the “maybe this feature will be included in the next version” answer even once in the session Q&A! Awesome!

In the previous three articles of this series, I presented an overview of how to structure a SharePoint Multi-Media Resource Center. I have created a screencast that walks through the finished solution to give you an idea of how it will look to the End User, including the transparent access to external videos and resources through the implementation of LyteBox.

Sometimes you may do some serious customization to a list’s forms and build related business logic that precludes the use of the ‘Edit in Datasheet’ feature that comes with every list. Unfortunately, there isn’t an ‘Allow Edit in Datasheet’ checkbox anywhere on the List Settings page. Fortunately, there are a couple of ways to handle this requirement that are fairly simple.

SharePoint can be a nagging fellow, especially if you begin to stray from any “out of the box” solution. The crux of the problem is usually that you are asked to go out of the box to create columns, content types and views. A wide range of SharePoint experts will always say, “If you can do without coding or SharePoint Designer you are saving yourself possible headaches down the road.”

Or what if you just want to drop a Twitter search into any old SharePoint page, rather than a full Results page? And more critical – what if you don’t have direct access to the SharePoint server in order to install binary web part and feature – with or without a Solution Package (WSP)?

When creating a regular list view in SharePoint, it is easy to set up grouping and totals, right out of the box. Unfortunately, when trying to achieve the same effect in a data view web part, there are some tricks to it. In this 5 minute screencast, Laura Rogers will show you how to set up grouping and totals within a data view web part. Yes, there is a *tiny* bit of code involved, but it’s not too painful.

I’ve been working a great deal with InfoPath in the last month or two and I’ve realized that I follow a certain pattern with all of my forms. I think that this pattern is widely followed, at least for certain kinds of forms, so I decided to put this in place as a “Starter” template. It includes all the common bits that a form ought to have as well as some structure for the data elements of the form.