Need help to customize enterprise portal web part pages in sharepoint designer 2010 ?

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Can any one help me to edit enterprise portal web part pages in sharepoint designer for doing some UI customizations ? I tried to add some changes in sharepoint desginer but the page is loading with error(quick launch & page title web parts throws error).

Even i tried to import the web part page in AOT and deploy it again. but its not deploying and throwing soap exception.

Please some one help me or provide me steps to edit EP pages in SharePoint designer and sync with AOT as well.

Thanks in advance.

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RE: Need help to customize enterprise portal web part pages in sharepoint designer 2010 ?

For your first question,

1. You can find (Applications) pages inside AOT > Web Files > Page definition. (Example :The Project home page is EPProject )

2. You can find the resources in AOT > Web Files > Static Files

3. If you want to Edit Controls. (Example : Editing the Timesheet Grid control). You can find it in AOT > WebFiles > Web Controls. You can Edit them in Visual Studio. Here you can find the application proxy (C# Code) that would connect to AX to retrieve App data. In VS you can expose the other Classes, Form and tables in the control too.

For your second question,

Page definition usually contains the code for the

1. Overall layout

2. Web Part zones

You can edit them directly in AOT or Put them in VS and get help with Intellisense for editing.

With respect to Web Controls, you can edit them only in VS.

You can also directly edit the files which are stored in <Program Files>\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Extensions \14\Templates\Layouts . I would not recommend this as AOT would not know the changes and would overwrite in the next deployment.

P.S If you want your business users to change it, it is always advised to add more webpart zones, so that they can edit the page and customize them. If its more of a development thing, you can follow the above.

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Saravanan | Enterprise Architect | My Blog
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RE: Need help to customize enterprise portal web part pages in sharepoint designer 2010 ?

Hi Saravanan, Thanks for your response.

I am not able to edit the EP pages in Visual Studio as you mentioned.. Can you please provide me the few steps.. Because I have only page definitions in AOT regarding the ep pages.. but not able to open thiis page definition in Visual Studio..

Is there any other way that we can customize the page content area (alignment, spacing between the user controls (webparts), changing the web par title etc.,

Thanks.
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RE: Need help to customize enterprise portal web part pages in sharepoint designer 2010 ?

It is not that easy to use Sharepoint designer to Edit EP pages. Sometimes SPD could change the parameters which might cause problems when deploying the page. What is that you want to achieve using SPD ?

If its UI/UX change, I would recommend styling in Chrome or Firefox add-ins and applying them as style sheet in the EP page through SharePoint or SPD.

You could also try editing the EP pages (aspx and ascx) directly in Visual Studio. If you need to edit or customize the EP controls (like Timesheet Grid or AR Form) you could deploy them to Visual studio and then edit them.

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