1. Custom Wiki Pages
SharePoint 2010
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2. Use Case Customer: Micron Developer Community
Developers supporting in-house systems they didn’t write
Wanted a single-page, per-system method for documenting in-house system info
Liked ‘Wiki’ capabilities (cross-linking, formatting)
Product eval indicated SharePoint for information mgmt
Lots of freedom, but NO formatting standards
Can we customize to customers’ needs? YES
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3. What’s involved… Site Columns Content Types Layout Pages Formatting
Anchors
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4. The Process Create Site Columns Create Content Type(s)
If Wiki and you want cross-linking within the text, column type is: “Full HTML content with formatting and constraints for publishing”
Create Content Type(s)
Parent: Enterprise Wiki
Add site columns
Flexibility consideration: Do you want a CT that has a standard set of columns, then children for different user groups with custom columns?
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5. The Process (cont.) Create Page Layout Modify Page Layout
SPD 2010 > New Page Layout
Select New Content Type
URL (file) Name and Title
Modify Page Layout
Open Enterprise Wiki Layout Page > Copy ALL code > Paste over yours
Toolbox > Content Fields > Add Site Columns
Format Text / Add Headers
Anchor tags?
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6. The Process (cont.) Make Layout Available
Publish, Approve
Look and Feel > Page Layouts and Site Templates
Page Layouts > Your new layout > Add
Warning! Changes to page layouts change existing pages based on those layouts!
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7. Example
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8. Reference
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