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Webinar by Andrew Connell (5/18) – Creating SharePoint Designer Workflow Activities with Visual Studio

May 16

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Usually, our webinars are 100% no-code. However, this will be a slight exception. The reason: it’s necessary for all of us to know the next step if we are unable to accomplish a task without programming.

This webinar shows what you do when the out of the box workflow activities provided by SharePoint Designer just don’t cut it. The next step is to create the activity using Visual Studio and deploy it to SharePoint so it appears in SharePoint Designer next time. Here are the details of the webinar:

Webinar Title:

Augmenting SharePoint Designer 2010 Workflows with Visual Studio 2010

Presenter:

Andrew Connell – http://www.criticalpathtraining.com, http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/

Description:

Generally the best story for creating custom workflows in SharePoint 2010 is to stick with the declarative and most productive option: use SharePoint Designer 2010. However there are situations when SharePoint Designer cannot achieve some business requirements. One common example is when you need to implement some sort of a loop. In this session, you’ll see what’s involved in creating a custom activity (action) in Visual Studio 2010 and deploy it to SharePoint so it can be used in SharePoint Designer based workflows.

Andrew Connell (also known by many of us as AC) is an exceptionally talented and well respected SharePoint professional within the SharePoint community. He’s my colleague (and my boss – although he doesn’t like to be called that ) at Critical Path Training (CPT). CPT offers expert level SharePoint training by trainers whose career focus is solely around SharePoint technologies. All of the instructors speak, write, train, consult, breathe and sleep SharePoint. Check out the upcoming training schedule at CPT.

We are holding this webinar on Wednesday, 5/18/2011 at 2pm Eastern. This webinar will be hosted by SharePoint-Videos.com. You can see all the information about the webinar and sign up for it here:

https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/870672600

Hope to ‘see’ you at the webinar!

Free Webinar on creating Workflows using Visio and SharePoint Designer

Sep 14

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Skill level: 200 (Intermediate)
Audience: Business Analysts, Site Administrators, Developers

SharePoint 2010 comes with the ability for creating workflows without programming using Visio 2010 and SharePoint Designer 2010. This is a Giant step towards being able to easily visualize and work with your workflows using these products. So what can and can’t you do using these products? What are the best practices when working with them? This session will cover these questions. Also, what if you need to be able to do more with workflows without programming and these products are not enough? We’ll look at additional options in the market as well.

In addition, we will set aside the last 15 minutes to answer your questions.

Register here: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/423175096

Free Webinar on 7/15 – “Getting started with your SharePoint 2010 Team Site – Best Practices”

Jul 13

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This webinar will be held on July 15, 2010 at 2 – 3pm Eastern.

Applies to SharePoint Foundation 2010

So you got your SharePoint 2010 Team Site… now what? How should you proceed to set it up? What should be the things to look out for and to not do? Join us in this session to learn some best practices on how to start up with your team site. You will learn the best practices about setting up your quick launch, top link bar, company/department logo, creating and setting up lists and libraries and more (as the time allows).

In addition, we will set aside the last 20 minutes to answer your questions.

If you would like to join us, register here: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/404190368

Webinar on User Interfaces of SharePoint 2010

Jun 22

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Our next webinar is on Thursday, June 24th from 2 to 3 pm Eastern. Here’s more detail about the webinar:

User Interfaces of SharePoint 2010

Skill Level – 100 (Beginner)

SharePoint 2010 ships with a variety of functionality waiting to be discovered. You can easily build your collaboration based solutions directly on top of this platform without the need for any programming. You need just the browser to create your robust solutions with lists, libraries and other site components. But how do you know where to get started? This session will dive into the user interfaces of SharePoint 2010 to show you how easy it is to get started.

This is an interactive webinar so bring your questions with you. I will try to answer your questions to the best of my ability. If you would like to join me, here is the link to sign up:
Register here: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/850656289

Free Webinar on Creating Data Centric Apps using SharePoint Designer 2010

Jan 27

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We’re back again with another free webinar. The content of this webinar was presented as a session by me at the Microsoft Connections 2010 conference in Amsterdam last week. The concepts presented in this session are already available as videos to the subscribers of SharePoint-Videos.com. I’ll be presenting this session in a webinar format to be held this Thursday, Jan 28th.

For this webinar, fundamental knowledge of SharePoint (2007 or 2010) concepts is assumed. Webinar will be held on Jan 28th at 12:00pm Eastern time. You can get more information and register for this webinar here:

https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/884796449

Power up with SharePoint – Free Live Web Conference

Dec 06

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On Dec 8th, I’ll be presenting a session at the Power Up with SharePoint online conference. It’s a free conference. You can check it out and register here.

My session will be on Reporting on Lists, Libraries, and SQL data using Data Views in SharePoint Designer 2007. After the session, I’ll be available for a Q & A session. Also, my co-contributor on the sharepoint-videos.com site, Wendy Henry will be presenting the keynote for this conference. In addition, SharePoint gurus Michael Noel and Colin Spence are performing sessions as well.

So come on by if you have time and join us.

Free Webinar on SharePoint Designer 2010 Workflows

Dec 01

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We’re back again with another free webinar. A few weeks ago at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009, I presented a session on SharePoint Designer 2010 Workflows which have been vastly improved in this release of SharePoint. In addition to talking about SPD Workflows, I will show the integration points with Visio and InfoPath. I’ll be presenting this session in a webinar format to be held this Thursday, Dec 3rd.

For this webinar, fundamental SharePoint (2007 or 2010) knowledge is assumed. Webinar will be held on Dec 3rd at 12:00pm Eastern time. You can get more information and register for this webinar here:

https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/333716056

Free Webinar Thursday (10/29/2009) – Introduction to SharePoint Designer 2010

Oct 28

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Asif Rehmani presented this session at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009 during the week of Oct 19, 2009.

SharePoint Designer 2010, a free application, is “The Preferred” tool to design powerful no-code solutions and applications in SharePoint 2010. In this session you will get a broad overview of the capabilities of the tool, from site customizations such as modifying Site Metadata, managing Site Security, or creating Site Content, to building List or Site based Workflows and connecting to a variety of Data Sources. You will also learn about the new ribbon interface of SharePoint Designer 2010 and shows how best to take advantage of this application by showing the new bells and whistles that come with this product.

Register here: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/994486001

Free webinar on SharePoint Designer Data Views

Sep 30

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We are back once again with another free webinar. This one is going to be all about using Data Views in SharePoint Designer to get to… well Data of course . This presentation will focus on how you can get access to SharePoint List data and then manipulate it as needed. However, keep in mind that Data Views can be used to get to any type of external data as well (web services, databases, xml files, rss feeds and more..).

The webinar is scheduled for 10/1 at 1pm Eastern. Come join us if you got time: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/983842921

Free Webinar Friday (9/18/2009) – Smart Storage for SharePoint

Sep 16

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We are back with another free webinar. Wendy Henry from SharePoint-Videos.com will be presenting this webinar along with host Asif Rehmani. The webinar will expose the secrets of choosing and growing an appropriate storage platform for your SharePoint environment.  

This webinar is scheduled for 11am Eastern time on 9/18/09. Seats are limited so please register soon if you will be attending.

To get more information and to register, visit the following page:

https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/775306281