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MOSS2/Working with Web Application and Site Collection

rupen — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 05:11:54 +0000

SharePoint team and Project server team at offshoresoftwaredevelopmentindia.com has great experience of creating web application based on MOSS 2007 and Project server 2007. That includes customization and development of webpart, site definitions, theme development, extension development, module creation. The team has developed CRM application, Job portal, Project management, to CMS applications based on MOSS 2007 and project server 2007.

Team would like to share same experience. This can help who wanted to begin with the sharePoint development and Project Server development.

There are list of articles start with SP and from number 1 to …. Always start with the article SP1 and read next article to start working on MOSS easily and quickly.

Working with Web Application and Site Collection:

To start working with WA (Web Application) and SC (Site Collection), open web application we have created by entering link into browser. We need to log in by user name and password which we have given to web application.

See to the following image for home page of the web application. The most important control on the webpage is site Actions.

If you click on the site action button you will see the menu with so many options.

Go to Site Action -> Site setting -> Modify All Site Settings.

After clicking Modify All site Settings you will see following screen.

Change theme of the website:

Please go to

Go to Site Action -> Site setting -> Modify All Site Settings.

Then you will see the following screen. Then click on

Look and feel -> Site theme

Then you will see the following screen to change the theme. Select theme you want and apply it.

After applying we can see the new theme as following screen.

Working with master pages and templates:

Please go to

Go to Site Action -> Site setting -> Modify All Site Settings.

Then you will see the following screen. Then click on

Galleries -> Master pages and page layouts

On clicking master pages you will see page as shown in following image.

Master Page:

ASP.NET master pages allow you to create a consistent layout for the pages in your application. A single master page defines the look and feel and standard behavior that you want for all of the pages (or a group of pages) in your application. You can then create individual content pages that contain the content you want to display. When users request the content pages, they merge with the master page to produce output that combines the layout of the master page with the content from the content page.

How Master Pages Work:

Master pages actually consist of two pieces, the master page itself and one or more content pages.

A master page is an ASP.NET file with the extension .master (for example, MySite.master) with a predefined layout that can include static text, HTML elements, and server controls. The master page is identified by a special @ Master directive that replaces the @ Page directive that is used for ordinary .aspx pages.

In addition to the @ Master directive, the master page also contains all of the top-level HTML elements for a page, such as html, head, and form. For example, on a master page you might use an HTML table for the layout, an img element for your company logo, static text for the copyright notice, and server controls to create standard navigation for your site. You can use any HTML and any ASP.NET elements as part of your master page.

Replaceable Content Placeholders:

In addition to static text and controls that will appear on all pages, the master page also includes one or more ContentPlaceHolder controls. These placeholder controls define regions where replaceable content will appear. In turn, the replaceable content is defined in content pages. After you have defined the ContentPlaceHolder controls, a master page might look like the following.

C#
<%@ Master Language=”C#” %>

1.1//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd”>

Master page title

MOSS1 – Create Web Application and Site Collections

rupen — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 04:57:40 +0000

Team would like to share same experience. This can help who wanted to begin with the sharePoint development and Project Server development.

There are list of articles start with SP and from number 1 to …. Always start with the article SP1 and read next article to start working on MOSS easily and quickly.

Installation: SharePoint server 2007 must be installed to perform all the actions.

Create Web Application:

To start working with share point server we need to first install share point server 2007 if it is not installed.

After installation we need to run share point product and services configuration wizard from the

Start menu -> Microsoft office Server -> SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard.

See the following image.

Central Administration:

First time to work with the share point server, we need to work with share point central administration.

Start menu -> Microsoft office Server -> Share Point 3.0 Central Administration.

See the following image.

The following image displays the central administration home page. There are three tabs in the central administration panel.

Home
Operations
Application Management

Home Tab:

Operations Tab:

Application Management Tab:

Creating Web Application:

To work with the share point site or to create a new share point site first we need to create share point Web Application.

A Web application is comprised of an Internet Information Services (IIS) site with a unique application pool and can be assigned to an SSP (Shared Services Provider) to enable features such as InfoPath Forms Services, Excel Calculation Services, and Workflows.

To create share point web application, go to

Central administration -> Application Management

Then click on SharePoint Web Application Management -> Create or extend web Application

Provide above mentioned information to the site like website description, Port, Configurable User Name and Password.

Then click OK.

After that we can see following processing screen.

After completion of the processing we can see following application created screen.

Creating Site Collection:

A site collection is a group of sites built on Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services that all exist under a top-level site.

After creating web application, to work with web application we need to create site collection. We cannot work in empty site collection. We have to create site collection.

To create a site collection we need to go to central administration -> Application Management.

We need to select web Application for which we need to create site collection as following screen.

This will show us the list of the site application as following screen. We need to create site application we created ex. Yahoo-1111. Click on Yahoo-1111 as following screen.

Then our web application path will be changed to our created web application’s path with mentioned port-1111 as following screen.

Then we need to feel the data like title, Description, URL, Template, primary site collection administrator and secondary site collection administrator for the site collection as following screen.

URL:

We are creating first site collection for the Web Application so we need to select base site (root site) in the URL. Select “/”.

Template:

There are many types of templates available. There are for tabs for the template. We are creating publishing site so we need to create publishing tab and then need to select publishing portal.

Site Collection Administrator:

Site Collection Administrator should be user of the current server, either from administrative group or from non administrative group.

Please see the following image for all these details.

After submitting above details we will see following processing screen.

On completion of the processing we will get message top level site collection successfully created as per following screen.

Site collection is created successfully.

Now we can work with web application with mentioned URL – http://server03:1111/.