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Log in to your SharePoint site as an administrator and make sure that SharePoint Designer and Customizing Master Pages and Page Layoutsare enabled at your site collection. To do this go to Site Actions - Site Settings and choose SharePoint Designer Settings under the Site Collection Administration header. See whether the Enable SharePoint Designer and Enable Customizing Master Pages and Page Layouts options are checked or check them if they are not. Then click OK.

Master pages contain the elements that reflect your brand in terms of color schemes, logo, title, search box, ribbon commands, navigation tools, and other features. Content pages will have these elements; in essence, content on individual pages are framed by the master page. There are two ways to approach this: creating a master page and modifying a v4 master page from SharePoint.Let’s go over as it is easier for non-developers Modifying a copy of v4 master The v4 master is the primary master page used for SharePoint. Using it as is will give you a functional site with the SharePoint layout and interface. Modifying this master allows for limited branding Open SharePoint Designer and click on  Master Pages,  located in the Navigation pane. You should see three options for master pages: v4.master, minimal.master, and default.master. Right click on  v4.master . Now you want to paste a copy of the master into the Master Page Gallery. Now you have  v4_copy(1).ma...

SharePoint 2010 introduces the notion of “Service Applications” which builds upon the “Shared Services Provider (SSP)” which was introduced in SharePoint 2007.  Service Applications are individual services that can be configured independently and can be shared across other sites within your farm with some service applications that can also be configured across farms. The individual service applications provided with SharePoint 2010 are listed as follows; Access Services Business Data Connectivity Document Conversion Excel Services Managed Metadata Service Performance Point Search Service Secure Store State Service Visio Graphics Service User Profile Service Managed Metadata Service The User Profile service requires that the Managed Metadata Service is setup and configured first before attempting setting up our first User Profile Service.  The Managed Metadata service allows you to utilize managed metadata and provides you with the ability to sh...

To insert a Data Form Web Part, follow these steps: Open a new Web Part page in SharePoint Designer 2010. You can either create your Web Part page in the browser and open it in SharePoint Designer, or you can use SharePoint Designer to create the new Web Part page for you. Click the Design tab to view your Web Part page in Design mode. On the Insert tab, click the Data View button and choose Empty Data View. SharePoint Designer inserts a new Web Part on the page, and a new set of tabs appears in the Ribbon   After you insert the Web Part, your next steps are to select the data source, add your columns, and apply sorting, filtering, and conditional formatting as desired. To select your data source: Inside the Web Part, click the Click Here to Select a Data Source link. The data sources picker appears. Select the list or library you want to display in your Web Part and click OK. The Data Source Details pane appears. Ctrl-click the columns you...

Supported list types that can be connected Announcements Contacts Events Issues Links Tasks Custom lists Document libraries UnSupported list types that can be connected Calendar view of an Events list Discussion boards Surveys Picture libraries Site and list template catalogs Web Part galleries Supported list column types that can be connected Single line of text Choice Number Currency Date and Time Hyperlink or Picture (for matching columns) Lookup Yes/No Calculated UnSupported list column types that can be connected Hyperlink or picture (for filtering) Multiple lines of text

Create 2 custom list with a unique column on both the list. Add both the list in a web part page Now we can see how to establish a connection between these two list view web parts. Click Connections --> Send Row Data to --> List Name It opens a popup screen which will give you an option to choose connection Choose Connection type --> click Configue Choose Provider Field Name and Consumer Field Name And The Result will look like the below screen

When you create a new site from a site template, Web Parts   are automatically added to the site When you create a list or library on your site, a List View Web Part of the same name as the list or library is automatically created. Let's see on a step by step procedure to create it. Site Actions --> More options Select the Option Custom List --> Enter the Name of the List   Click Add New Item Enter the Title of the List Item ---> Click Save Go to your Home Page -- > Site Actions --> Edit Page Click Add a Web Part Under Lists and Libraries --> Name of the List is Displayed. --> Select and press ADD Now You can see you List View Web Part is displayed on your page  Now Click On Edit Page --> Click Edit Web Part  Now We can see the Interesting part of the Web Part Properties. Here You can See the point listed below 1. Selected View ---> Edit the...