Chapter 8. Creating application sites with SharePoint Designer
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In the last chapter we discussed functionality that you can use to create business intelligence sites. This chapter begins our section on composite sites and shows how you can build powerful applications using SharePoint Designer. The scenario that you’re going to implement, following a step-by-step process, is automating the review process for tracking employees and their certification status. To begin, we’ll discuss the scenario you’ve been given and how you’ll create the solution utilizing SharePoint. Throughout this chapter I’ll be referencing SharePoint Designer by its commonly used acronym, SPD.
This section focuses on three parts: situation, business priorities, and solution. The first section, situation, gives a detailed explanation of the request that you’ve received. The next section, business priorities, extracts a list of requirements based on priority to accomplish your goals. The third section provides an overview of the solution that we’ll spend the rest of the chapter walking through and building.