Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 is the latest release of the SharePoint Server product line that provides organizations with a full arsenal of tools to create a highly scalable and feature-rich web content management (WCM) system. This book is designed to provide a task-based approach for exploring the key WCM capabilities of SharePoint Server 2013. These include:
Branding SharePoint
Publishing content with SharePoint
Managing content and navigation with taxonomy
Customizing the SharePoint experience with code
Translating content in SharePoint
Staging SharePoint content
The recipes in this book cover each of the key areas for creating a full-fledged content management system that can be used for intranet, extranet, and Internet sites.
Chapter 1, Branding SharePoint with Composed Looks, covers how to brand SharePoint using composed looks, color palettes, and font schemes.
Chapter 2, Branding SharePoint with Device Channels and Design Packages, explains how to target SharePoint branding for specific devices and package branding customizations.
Chapter 3, Branding SharePoint with Custom Master Pages and Page Layouts, covers how to brand SharePoint with custom master pages and creating custom page layouts.
Chapter 4, Packaging Branding Elements in a SharePoint Solution with Visual Studio, explains how to create custom SharePoint solutions in Visual Studio to package and apply branding resources.
Chapter 5, Enhancing the Content Creation Process with the SharePoint Publishing Architecture, covers how to use the publishing features of SharePoint to manage web content.
Chapter 6, Centralizing and Structuring Content with Cross-site Publishing and Managed Metadata, explains how to use the cross-site publishing and managed metadata features of SharePoint to centrally structure and control content.
Chapter 7, Customizing the SharePoint Experience with Delegate Controls, covers how to create custom delegate user controls with Visual Studio.
Chapter 8, Enhancing User Input with InfoPath Forms, explains the basics of how to use InfoPath forms to customize the user input experience.
Chapter 9, Configuring Search, covers how to configure and manage search in SharePoint.
Chapter 10, Creating Multilingual Sites with SharePoint Variations, explains how to use SharePoint variations to create multilingual sites and manage content translation.
Chapter 11, Configuring Content Deployment, covers how to configure and perform deployment of SharePoint content from one site collection to another.
Chapter 12, Configuring Anonymous Access, explains how to make SharePoint sites available to end users without requiring them to login.
This book is written for those who would like to expand their knowledge and abilities to configure, design, and develop for SharePoint web content management. They should be familiar with the SharePoint and web markup languages, such as HTML and CSS. In addition, knowledge of Windows PowerShell and programming .NET using C# is recommended, but not required.
The recipes in this book utilize the Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 web interface, Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2013, Microsoft InfoPath 2013, Windows PowerShell, and Microsoft C# .NET code. Most of the recipes that use the SharePoint web interface or SharePoint Designer can be used with SharePoint 2013 hosted on Office 365 as well as with a local SharePoint 2013 server. Recipes that use PowerShell or .NET code will require access to a local SharePoint 2013 server.
In order to make full use of all recipes in this book, it is highly recommended that you have a testing and development machine with the following software. These software applications can be obtained from the links provided or, in most cases, from MSDN with an active MSDN Subscription.
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 available at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/hh670538.aspx
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 available at http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/get-sql-server/try-it.aspx
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 Enterprise Edition available at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/hh973397.aspx
Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 or 2013 (not the Express edition) available at http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/downloads
Microsoft Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012 (not required for Visual Studio 2013) available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/apps/fp123627.aspx
Microsoft InfoPath 2013 (part of Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2013) available at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/jj192782.aspx
Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2013 available at http://www.microsoft.com/en-ie/download/details.aspx?id=35491
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This book does not cover the installation or configuration of these software applications. Most of the trial downloads, as well as TechNet (http://technet.microsoft.com) and MSDN (http://msdn.microsoft.com), provide documentation on installing and configuring these software products.
In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.
Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "Composed looks are stored as list items in the _catalogs/design list of each SharePoint site."
A block of code is set as follows:
<s:latin typeface="Bodoni Book" eotsrc="/_layouts/15/fonts/BodoniBook.eot" woffsrc="/_layouts/15/fonts/BodoniBook.woff" ttfsrc="/_layouts/15/fonts/BodoniBook.ttf" svgsrc="/_layouts/15/fonts/BodoniBook.svg" />
Any command-line input or output is written as follows:
$web = Get-SPWeb http://sharepoint/site
New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "Select Change the look from the Settings menu."
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