Microsoft Sharepoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit eBook

924 Part IX: Maintaining a Server in Windows SharePoint Services
Summary
Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 and SharePoint Products and Technologies really
deliver a powerful set of tools. After we covered some basic SharePoint Products
and Technologies fundamentals such as Web Parts, Lists, Libraries, Areas, Personal
Sites, and Views, we touched on browser-based customization of SharePoint Products
and Technologies and took a high-level tour of FrontPage 2003 itself.
We learned that there are some caveats to editing SharePoint Portal Server 2003
sites in FrontPage 2003. But Microsoft has provided a high level of granularity in our
ability to disable some functions.
Then we turned to the most common changes people make using FrontPage
2003 when editing a SharePoint site. We covered adding text, images, and pages and
changing almost everything about how a list can be displayed. In the section about
Advanced Customization, we discussed using Dynamic Web Templates, Themes,
and other new features in FrontPage 2003.
We boned up on using the Data Source Catalog and the huge variety of data
sources available through FrontPage 2003. Then we turned our attention to getting
the most out of Data View Web Parts. These display workhorses capitalize on the
power of XSLT and the Data Retrieval Service in Windows SharePoint Services. We
covered displaying, filtering, sorting, grouping, and more. This was followed by a
brief example of an XML hierarchy.
We demonstrated how SharePoint lists can be converted to Data Views for
additional capabilities for formatting the output. And finally we discussed the various
prepackaged reporting functionalities available from within FrontPage 2003.
The next two chapters go a layer deeper and discuss the object models underlying
SharePoint Products and Technologies in detail.