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This video series shows you how to quickly and easily build complex business solutions on the SharePoint platform. Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 Business Administrator Training is a one-and-a-half hour, 300-400 level training series, produced in collaboration with the SharePoint Product Team and Total Training.

This article introduces variables and describes the different types that are available. It also shows you how to create new variables and presents a scenario that demonstrates using variables in a workflow.

The community at CodePlex has made available this project, which provides a set of custom workflow activities to make it easier to create advanced workflows with SharePoint Designer 2007.

Learn how using views in SharePoint can help you focus on the information that's most important to you on a SharePoint site.

This short demo shows you how to work with views in SharePoint to find the information you need.

Learn about personal and public views and how to create them to see items in a list or library that are most important to you.

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Whatever data source you use in your application (SharePoint list, SharePoint library, database connection, etc.), you almost certainly will need to work with date values. Displaying a date value in a Data View is a fairly simple matter; you add it as you would any other column. But filtering or conditionally formatting based on date values is a more complex capability to build. In this article, I'll show you how to build rich date-value capabilities with minimal effort.

Learn how your team can use a wiki to gather and share ideas on a site quickly.

Your team can edit a wiki by adding content and links.

Learn how to create and view a version history of your wiki, and even restore a previous version if you make a mistake.

Use this roadmap as a starting point to learn about the broad capabilities of Office SharePoint Server 2007 and how to complete common tasks as a contributor to a SharePoint site.

Download a simple file to get the grand tour of the latest features and changes, including automated workflows to track approval cycles, business dashboards showing how well you are performing on your goals, and syncing documents to Outlook.

Workflows can help improve your team's efficiency. Learn the workflow basics here.

Ready to design your first workflow? Get the steps here.

Design a workflow for a form library by following the steps in this example.

Watch this screencast to learn more about using the Workflow Designer.

Are you a developer? Get a high-level overview of how Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 implements the workflow capabilities of the Windows Workflow Foundation.

Quickly design a workflow that sends an e-mail message to any team member when they receive an assignment. Just follow the steps in this example.

Get tips and tricks and best practices for working with SharePoint Designer directly from the SharePoint Designer team.