Name: SharePoint Designer (discontinued)
Rating: 6 (65 reviews)
Author: Discontinued Products

Customer Engagement

Help Desk

Web and Video Conferencing

Customer Support

Continuous Integration

Development

Online Proctoring Software

Education

Association Management

Business Intelligence (BI)

Collaboration

Contract Analysis

Data Analytics  and BI Services

Document Generation

File Sync

Enterprise

Accounting

Trust Management

Finance and Accounting

Applicant Tracking

Corporate Learning Management

Corporate Volunteering

HR Management

Payroll

Recruitment Agency

Succession Planning

Talent Intelligence

Talent Management

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Management

Human Resources

AIOps

API Design

Asset Tokenization

Cloud Storage

Container Management

DevOps

Disk Based Backup

Fraud Detection

Hadoop-Related

Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

Managed Private Cloud

Network Access Control (NAC)

Network Performance Monitoring

Relational Database Management Systems

Requirements Management

SSL Certificate

Tower Servers

Information Technology

A/B Testing

Ad Serving & Retargeting

All-in-One Marketing

Content Management

Content Marketing

Customer Loyalty Program

Digital Experience Platforms (DXP)

Email Marketing

Location Intelligence

Marketing Automation

Personalization Engines

Product Management

Social Media Management

Survey & Forms Building

Web Analytics

Marketing

AI Meeting Assistants

Email Signature

Project Management

Task Management

Professional Services

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Sales

Cloud Access Security Brokers

Data Loss Prevention

User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA)

Security

Automotive

Catering

Church Management

Estate Planning

Hotel Management

Insurance Claims Management

Law Practice Management

Multiple Listing Service (MLS)

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Hidden Lists Feature: Users have appreciated the ability to view hidden lists, making it easier to manage their content effectively. This feature enhances organization and accessibility of data within SharePoint, allowing users to keep track of all relevant information in a structured manner.

Sharing Links Option: Reviewers found the option to display sharing links helpful for deleting them efficiently, enhancing their control over access permissions and simplifying permission management tasks. By easily managing sharing links, users can ensure secure access to documents and files.

Workflow Efficiency: Customers highlighted the convenience of working with workflows, editing master pages, and utilizing publishing features in SharePoint. These functionalities streamline content management processes and improve overall productivity by providing a user-friendly interface for efficient workflow creation and execution.

Some users have raised concerns about the outdated interface and lack of essential features like tooltips. In addition, users have expressed frustration with the reliability of this product with the tool crashing being a normal occurrence. 

Users also find it difficult to navigate between sub-sites and explore beyond the entry point, hampering their ability to access the root of a directory structure efficiently. 

Additionally, there are limitations in cross-site and cross-site collection lookups, with users pointing out the cumbersome process of extracting text from lookup fields as a significant drawback. A more seamless integration would greatly enhance user experience and overall efficiency. 

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Integrates very well

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We are using SharePoint Designer to create specific customs for our Intranet and Extranet platforms.

We have been using SharePoint Designer 2013 with both SharePoint Server 2013 and SharePoint Server 2016.

It is used by several departments in our organization :
- IT services
- BU like Data Center, DevOps, etc

How are we using SharePoint Designer ?
- Update specific pages
- Create workflows
- Access libraries
- Publish pages
- Update master pages

Workflows
Editing master pages
Publishing features

Synchronization
Application's size
Application's speed

We use it for workflows that do not require cross-site lookups.

SP2010 workflows are the easiest way to get a text from a lookup field.
Workflows are free.
Fairly easy to use, intuitive interface.
Branding and CSS styling on the master page.

Cross-site and cross-site collection lookups.
Get text from lookup fields in 2013 (or next release). It is cumbersome to need multiple workflows for one task.
No ability to edit DispForm.aspx, etc.

Positive: Where we can use it, it saves the cost of a Nintex workflow.
Negative: Nothing really. It doesn't have all the features I would like, but what it has worked fine.

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We are using SharePoint Designer to customize SharePoint sites, and developing and deployment of custom solutions on SharePoint. It's the best tool for designing site pages and developing workflows. We are resolving business requirements of creating different levels of approval workflows and providing custom solutions.

Customization of SharePoint.
Deployment of workflow solutions.

Tool itself needs improvement as it sometime crashes.
SPFX page modification.

Business satisfaction in customizing things.
Cost-free when you have on-premise environment.

Currently, I am using SharePoint Designer to manage apps, edit HTML pages and manage files. I thought I would use it more to edit forms but I prefer InfoPath. I find it more useful to edit. When I want to get a clear picture of the hierarchy in SharePoint, I use SharePoint Designer. I find it difficult at times to navigate the breadcrumbs to get to what I want. It does not seem to be too forgiving when you want to navigate from one subsite to another.

Allows me to go directly to the file structure I want to examine.
Allows me to move files from one area within a site to another.
Good for editing the HTML code within a page.

Navigation between sub-sites and beyond the entry point is not seamless. I find it difficult to get to the root of a directory structure if I have not started there.
Would love to be able to do WYSIWYG in some form. I have only used it for a year but I have not found anything fancy to do.
I would like to be able to work in a development site and easily move to the production site.

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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I occasionally use it on old sites because they're harder to manage than modern pages. It's my last resort when I can't find something on a Classic site that I didn't build. It is at its end of life, and I can't imagine anyone would use it for any other purpose, save those so resistant to change that they will keep it until it's deprecated.

Shows hidden lists
Shows sharing links so I can delete them
Easier to navigate from one list or library to get a quick comparison

The interface is really dated
Preview in Browser doesn't work half the time
There's no help or tooltips
Easy to go down a rabbit hole, but not always easy to revert back
Product is obsolete and will be deprecated.

Editing and reviewing older site pages and settings

Minimal, we're government and ROI isn't tracked for most objectives

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SharePoint Designer (discontinued)

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