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SharePoint 2013 WCM Advanced Cookbook

By : JOHN CHAPMAN

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SharePoint 2013 WCM Advanced Cookbook

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By: JOHN CHAPMAN

Overview of this book

SharePoint 2013 WCM Advanced Cookbook

SharePoint 2013 WCM Advanced Cookbook

Credits

Credits

About the Author

About the Author

About the Reviewers

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

Preface

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Branding SharePoint with Composed Looks

Branding SharePoint with Composed Looks

Introduction

Applying a composed look

Changing the site master pages

Changing the site logo

Uploading a custom color palette

Uploading a custom font scheme

Creating a custom composed look

Using PowerShell to apply a composed look to all sites in a site collection

Using PowerShell to apply master page and logo settings to all sites in a farm

Branding SharePoint with Device Channels and Design Packages

Branding SharePoint with Device Channels and Design Packages

Introduction

Creating a device channel for mobile devices

Applying a master page to a device channel

Creating and exporting a design package

Importing and applying a design package

Importing a design package to all site collections with PowerShell

Listing the device channel master pages

Branding SharePoint with Custom Master Pages and Page Layouts

Branding SharePoint with Custom Master Pages and Page Layouts

Introduction

Editing a master page in SharePoint Designer

Changing the site master pages in SharePoint Designer

Hiding unwanted master page controls

Restoring the Navigate Up button using a master page

Adding JavaScript and cascading stylesheet references to a master page

Creating a fixed width master page

Creating an expanding width master page with content padding

Creating a minimalistic master page

Creating a responsive mobile master page

Customizing the Windows 8 Start menu tile for pinning sites using a master page

Customizing the shortcut icon (favicon) using a master page

Creating a page layout with three columns of web part zones

Creating a page layout with web parts added to the page

Creating a page layout with a picture-library-based image carousel using JavaScript

Displaying specific content only to authenticated users

Displaying specific content only to anonymous users

Displaying specific content only to site administrators

Creating a master page with editing controls only available to editors

Packaging Branding Elements in a SharePoint Solution with Visual Studio

Packaging Branding Elements in a SharePoint Solution with Visual Studio

Introduction

Creating a Visual Studio SharePoint solution

Including images, cascading stylesheets, and JavaScript resources in a SharePoint solution

Including master pages in a SharePoint solution

Including page layouts in a SharePoint solution

Adding localization to a SharePoint solution

Creating a site feature to apply branding

Creating the site collection feature to apply the feature to new and existing sites

Creating a timer job to ensure the site branding feature is activated

Packaging and deploying the SharePoint solution

Activating the site collection feature on all site collections with PowerShell

Enhancing the Content Creation Process with the SharePoint Publishing Architecture

Enhancing the Content Creation Process with the SharePoint Publishing Architecture

Introduction

Setting up a new publishing site

Enabling the publishing features on an existing site

Setting up contributor and approver access for publishing content

Configuring the versioning settings of the Pages library

Creating a publishing web part page

Checking out publishing content for editing

Checking in edited publishing content

Publishing checked-in publishing content

Approving publishing content

Reverting publishing content to a previous version

Setting up a publishing site with workflow

Creating a web part page and adding web parts with PowerShell

Identifying all checked-out publishing pages in a site with PowerShell

Creating an image rendition

Inserting an image rendition into page content

Centralizing and Structuring Content with Cross-site Publishing and Managed Metadata

Centralizing and Structuring Content with Cross-site Publishing and Managed Metadata

Introduction

Creating a new managed metadata service application

Creating a categories term set for product catalog navigation

Creating a product catalog authoring site collection

Configuring the products list

Creating a catalog document library

Setting up a consuming site collection and connecting to the product catalog list

Setting up a consuming site collection with separate branding

Customizing the SharePoint Experience with Delegate Controls

Customizing the SharePoint Experience with Delegate Controls

Introduction

Creating a Visual Studio solution for custom delegate controls

Adding JavaScript and stylesheets with an AdditionalPageHead delegate control

Customizing the suite bar branding with a SuiteBarBrandingDelegate delegate control

Customizing the suite bar links with a SuiteLinksDelegate delegate control

Adding Office 365-style drop-down menus to suite bar links

Adding promoted action links with the PromotedActions delegate control

Customizing header navigation with a TopNavigationDataSource delegate control

Customizing quick launch navigation with a QuickLaunchDataSource delegate control

Restoring the Navigate Up button with an AdditionalPageHead delegate control

Adding meta tags to pages from custom library fields with an AdditionalPageHead delegate control

Storing analytics tracking code with a site collection settings page

Adding stored analytics tracking code to pages with an AdditionalPageHead delegate control

Enhancing User Input with InfoPath Forms

Enhancing User Input with InfoPath Forms

Introduction

Customizing the SharePoint list entry form templates with InfoPath

Creating InfoPath forms that are submitted to the SharePoint form libraries

Creating a SharePoint list to provide a drop-down menu data to InfoPath

Adding a drop-down menu to InfoPath using SharePoint list data

Paginating InfoPath forms with views

Validating data in InfoPath forms

Calculating field values in InfoPath based on the values of other fields

Adding custom .NET code to an InfoPath form

Preparing InfoPath forms for approval by SharePoint administrators

Approving submitted InfoPath forms in SharePoint

Creating libraries using approved InfoPath forms in SharePoint

Creating a survey InfoPath form that gets locked after submission and populates the SharePoint fields

Configuring Search

Configuring Search

Introduction

Provisioning a search service application

Configuring a search content source

Creating a search center site

Connecting a site collection to a search center

Creating a search scope

Using a search query rule to promote an item in search results

Configuring search engine optimization settings

Creating Multilingual Sites with SharePoint Variations

Creating Multilingual Sites with SharePoint Variations

Introduction

Installing SharePoint language packs

Configuring SharePoint with installed language packs

Provisioning a machine translation service application

Configuring machine translation timer jobs

Configuring site collection variation settings

Creating the primary language variation label

Creating the secondary language variation labels

Checking the status of the variation hierarchy

Creating, publishing, and updating targets with a new publishing page

Creating translation packages for human translation

Uploading translation packages

Translating content with the machine translation service

Configuring Content Deployment

Configuring Content Deployment

Introduction

Configuring the source site collection for content deployment

Configuring the farm content deployment settings

Creating the content deployment path

Creating the content deployment job

Performing the content deployment

Configuring Anonymous Access

Configuring Anonymous Access

Introduction

Configuring anonymous access for web applications

Configuring anonymous access for site content

Limiting access to application pages

Identifying anonymously accessible content with PowerShell

Verifying anonymous access to content with PowerShell

Index

Index

Creating a page layout with three columns of web part zones

A page layout is a template used when creating new content pages in SharePoint. There are a number of page layouts included with SharePoint out of the box. When one of those doesn't suffice, we can easily create our own. In this recipe, we will modify the BlankWebPartPage.aspx page layout to have three columns, each with a web part zone. A web part zone is an area of the page where users can add web parts. A web part is an ASP.NET user control under the covers.

How to do it...

Follow these steps to create a page layout with three columns of web part zones:

Open SharePoint Designer.
Select Open Site. Enter the complete URL to the SharePoint site and select Open.
From the Navigation pane, select Page Layouts.
In the list of files in the Page Layouts library, make a copy of BlankWebPartPage.aspx (for our example, we have renamed it PageLayout_ThreeColumn.aspx).
Note
The Page Layouts view is a view of the _catalogs/masterpage library that...

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