“No-Code” customisations & solutions for SharePoint

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AgendaNo-Code customisations – what and why?

Demo site Composed look Branding & Design Manager Custom functionality - JavaScriptQuestions

Farm Solutions – are they that bad? Farm solution => C#, fully trusted solutions

Office 365

Deployments

Runs in process as SharePoint – shared problems

Demo

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Useful tools/links Composed looks SharePoint 2013 Color Palette - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=38182

JavaScript

jQuery - http://jquery.com/

Knockout.js - http://knockoutjs.com/

Composed LooksChange the current look – Site Settings > Change the look

You can specify a background image, change the master page etc

Once applied this will affect the site

Composed Looks – spcolor & spfontColour palette is defined in an spcolor file

Provides different elements which can have colours set, approximately 90 altogether

You can specify hex values (6 character) and can include transparency (8 characters)

Upload files to _catalogs/themes/15

Design ManagerPart of Publishing

Allows a more joined up approach between Front-end development (html, css etc) and SharePoint development (Server controls etc)

Design ManagerAllows you to work on .html files, using any html you want

Snippet gallery helps ‘non-SharePoint’ developers to add server controls to their page layouts