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What is SharePoint Designer (discontinued)?
Microsoft's SharePoint Designer was a tool for developing SharePoint applications that has been discontinued.
SharePoint Designer - Tool to customize SharePoint
We have been using SharePoint Designer …
SharePoint Designer - don't use it for new work anymore!
Decent product
Valuable tool for SharePoint customization
SharePoint Designer Novice
Ah-ha thoughts after using SharePoint Designer
SharePoint Designer Review
SharePoint Designer Review
Business solutions with SharePoint Designer
The Truth about SharePoint Designer - The Key to Success
SharePoint Designer: A Necessary Evil
Using SharePoint Designer to Easily Modify Pages and Create Workflows
There's no SharePoint without SharePoint Designer
Designer is great- but no more Design view IN Designer??
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What is SharePoint Designer (discontinued)?
Microsoft's SharePoint Designer was a tool for developing SharePoint applications that has been discontinued.
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- No setup fee
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- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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What is SharePoint Designer (discontinued)?
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SharePoint Designer - Tool to customize SharePoint
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
Decent product
Valuable tool for SharePoint customization
It is not suited for designing site pages and for developing highly customized solutions, as it will crash.
SharePoint Designer Novice
Ah-ha thoughts after using SharePoint Designer
If you opt to use SharePoint Designer, latest version 2013 for SharePoint Online or on-premise, here is what you can do with a SharePoint list: Custom list, Permissions, Columns, Views, Forms, Content Type and set Custom Actions.
SharePoint Designer Review
Weak on: scalability, portability, easy connection to other systems.
SharePoint Designer Review
Business solutions with SharePoint Designer
The Truth about SharePoint Designer - The Key to Success
To a SharePoint Developer, workflows are like a hammer to a carpenter. If there is a business process that needs automation, the first thing I look to is what are we automating? What/where is the data? How can we minimize the number of keystrokes by end-users to get from the start to finish? The answer to all of these is "build a workflow". With the introduction of "Call HTTP Web Service" action, you can now access data anywhere in a site collection and consume it in any site, on any list, for any form. SharePoint Designer Workflows makes the SharePoint world go round.
Less Appropriate - Building SharePoint Pages
I have attempted to use SharePoint Designer to build custom pages, but it just is the worst tool to use. There are many other tools to use to develop customized pages. The techniques of designing custom page layouts, CSS files to populate in pages, JavaScript Snippets for pages have changed so much over the years, and SharePoint Designer did not change with them. In fact, it is my opinion the 2013 version made it 100 times more difficult than the 2010 Version.
SharePoint Designer: A Necessary Evil
There's no SharePoint without SharePoint Designer
SharePoint Designer: Use With Caution
Designer 2010 is a huge improvement over Designer 2007. I'm just now installing Designer 2013 for my next upgrade environment, and I hope it is similarly improved. Given that there aren't any easy alternatives to Designer, it is worth putting up with its idiosyncrasies in order to get quick results for my end users.
But it is a powerful tool, so I will not make it available to the various power users who have requested access to it in production. We can restrict what site(s) Designer users can change, but within those sites, everything becomes up for grabs. Since my company wants to (a) maintain consistent user interfaces, and (b) restrict the number of unghosted pages overall (for performance reasons), we opt to let users from outside my team create their designs/customizations/workflows in the test environment, then we vet them before moving them to production.