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Chose SharePoint Designer (discontinued)
I haven't used anything else like this. I use different products for workflows and forms, but they aren't listed in the listings for this page. Instead of using it for workflows or forms (deprecated 2 years ago), I use Nintex. For everything else, I have what I need in the …
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Technology Analyst in Information Technology at Infosys (Computer Software, 10,001+ employees)
Chose SharePoint Designer (discontinued)
These products are very good alternatives to SharePoint Designer but SharePoint Designer stacks up when you are using it for on-premise SharePoint environment.
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Elearning Specialist, Video Production in Information Technology at State of New Jersey (Government Administration, 10,001+ employees)
Chose SharePoint Designer (discontinued)
I prefer InfoPath for designing forms for use in SharePoint over SharePoint Designer. I have not used SharePoint Designer for designing pages in SharePoint. I have found it easier to work directly in SharePoint. Granted I have only had the product for a little over a year.
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Chose SharePoint Designer (discontinued)
I'd say that Nintex is a lot easier to configure and identifying errors is less complex than SharePoint Designer. In addition, an alternative that developers may prefer using is Adobe Dreamweaver which is also a web development tool. A third option is Coda, a text editor that …
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User Experience Manager in Information Technology at Clarity Voice (Telecommunications, 11-50 employees)
Chose SharePoint Designer (discontinued)
SharePoint was very good for what we needed and had a lot more storage than Dropbox. This was a big factor in determining cost and analyzing what platform we were going to go with. SharePoint met the criteria we needed for our company and allows us to stay in communication with …
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Verified User
Chose SharePoint Designer (discontinued)
SharePoint Designer is somewhat inferior when compared to a purpose-built third-party tool like Nintex. Even though Nintex leverages built-in workflow engines (SP2010 and SP2013 depending on platform), it builds on top of that and adds many useful features.
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Enterprise Content Management Supervisor in Professional Services at RSM US (Information Technology and Services, 5001-10,000 employees)
Chose SharePoint Designer (discontinued)
Nintex Forms and Workflow are both very robust tools, but cost for some clients can be prohibitive. Nintex does not provide tools to manage SharePoint sites, lists and libraries.
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Web Developer in Information Technology at Express Employment Professionals (Staffing and Recruiting, 51-200 employees)
Chose SharePoint Designer (discontinued)
Both K2 and Nintex provide a powerful platform to build and run business applications that integrate seamlessly with SharePoint; business apps typically consist of workflow, forms, data and reports. The type of business apps range from simple document approval workflows to …
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SharePoint Developer and Architect in Information Technology at Holiday Retirement (Hospitality, 10,001+ employees)
Chose SharePoint Designer (discontinued)
Both Nintex and K2 Blackpearl are great products in their own way, but they are expensive. The pricing models for the SharePoint Online environment is very expensive for how Holiday uses workflows. Nintex's pricing model is by the number of workflows in your tenant, and I …
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SharePoint Developer in Information Technology at ThriveFast, L.L.C. (Computer Software, 1-10 employees)
Chose SharePoint Designer (discontinued)
There really isn't a holistic, complete SharePoint Designer replacement currently. You can utilize several different tools and piece together the functionality of Designer. No one really "selects" SharePoint Designer, it is just a necessary evil. For O365 subscribers, Flow …
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Web Administrator III (SharePoint) in Information Technology at The Institute of Internal Auditors Inc. (Non-Profit Organization Management, 201-500 employees)
Chose SharePoint Designer (discontinued)
I have not used any other products. SharePoint Designer is what I use on a daily basis.
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Verified User
Chose SharePoint Designer (discontinued)
SharePoint Designer should be used for SharePoint it was made for this purpose. Trying to use Dreamweaver with SharePoint just doesn't work.
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Developer in Information Technology at Guardian Industries Corp. (Glass, Ceramics & Concrete, 10,001+ employees)
Chose SharePoint Designer (discontinued)
SharePoint Designer is the only tool of its kind that I feel 100% comfortable using. Compared to the Nintex workflows/forms, SharePoint Designer has much more increased functionality and ease for an IT-type user like myself. I think it has a much better and easier to navigate …
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Web Developer III in Information Technology at USAC (Telecommunications, 201-500 employees)
Chose SharePoint Designer (discontinued)
As I said before, I didn't select SharePoint Designer per se, but I did (and will continue to) elect to sometimes use Designer rather than create deployable solutions in Visual Studio.
Designer could be called the lazy person's tool for modifying SharePoint. Solutions created in …
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SharePoint does not provide, out of the box, a tool to create / update workflows from web. You have to use SharePoint Designer in order to create them. If you need to implement custom workflows for specific business processes, then SharePoint Designer is well suited. SharePoint Designer allows you to create workflows with task approval, email notifications, assign variables and update SharePoint Lists / Documents properties. In our company, we have created specific workflows for : - Purchase order - RH forms validation like annual employee review - Dematerialized existing forms and validation
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2013 Workflows - Loops: You can build loops to work while a value (not) equals something, or N number of times. You can insert Parallel Blocks to do multiple things at once, or to watch for multiple things, and when 1 thing finishes, cancels the others and moves to the next step or stage.
2013 Workflows - Stages: Previously all we had were steps, which worked sequentially. With the Concept of Stages, we can create blocks of steps and based on the data collected during those functions, we can tell the workflow to go to a different Stage in the workflow based on a set of 1, or multiple, Conditionals in a transition area after each Stage. Giving you the power to develop multiple entire processes and skipping to the correct part of the workflow, rather than going through 20 conditionals to find out you needed to do action 31.
2013 Workflows - REST API: the "Call HTTP Web Service" is a very powerful tool, but hard to understand if you have never seen it done, or have a guideline. It works very similar to the requirements in PowerShell to connect and get and post data to SharePoint using the Rest API. You can also use this to manage permissions on List Items, Lists, Sites, and Site Collections. Best part is when developed correctly, it is SUPER FAST!
Intentionally Building Infinite Loops: I have built multiple review process from Managing Certifications to Updating Published Documentation, that monitors when an Item, based on provided approved metadata, when the "Author" needs to review the document within the given amount of time. They will get e-mails with links asking if changes are needed. If not, it is routed to the Approving Executive, and the Workflow Automatically updates the Metadata to push out the review dates to the next date, based on metadata provided on how how often the document should be reviews. By using conditionals in the transition of stages, it basically starts over, and goes into a parallel block to allow the monitoring of multiple values of metadata to move to the next stage. Very Powerful when you want to automate these types of process. It truly is a "Set It and Forget It" process.
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In the newest version of SharePoint Designer, they have gotten rid of the Design view which makes what used to be quick and easy changes much more code-intensive. This makes it harder for non-IT users and is more risker for all SharePoint Designer users.
SharePoint Designer workflows have a lot of functionality, but there are also some crucial limitations, such as not being able to put lookup fields in email subjects or using parenthesis to separate/group logical conditions.
Although this goes along with the Design view, there really isn't a good user interface anymore for adding conditional formatting and styles in views/pages.
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Support is good from Microsoft. They are quite responsive when we raise a ticket but SP Designer support will be ended by Microsoft in the near future as they have got new techs like PowerApps and Flow to achieve the same functionality SP Designer does and even more than that.
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I haven't used anything else like this. I use different products for workflows and forms, but they aren't listed in the listings for this page. Instead of using it for workflows or forms (deprecated 2 years ago), I use Nintex. For everything else, I have what I need in the Modern version of SharePoint online
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For my needs, I have not found SharePoint Designer useful for my day to day maintenance of SharePoint. It is useful for viewing all the objects that make up the SharePoint site.
It is not as intuitive in regard to setting up Workflows. I have yet to use it to set up workflows in SharePoint. Maybe if I needed more complex workflows, it would be beneficial.
I like to use SharePoint Designer for moving around files within SharePoint sites.
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