Overview
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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Pricing
What is SharePoint Designer (discontinued)?
Microsoft's SharePoint Designer was a tool for developing SharePoint applications that has been discontinued.
Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
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- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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What is SharePoint Designer (discontinued)?
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Reviews and Ratings
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Reviews
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- Minimal, we're government and ROI isn't tracked for most objectives
SharePoint Designer - Tool to customize SharePoint
- High set-up time
- Complex tool
- It is helpful for migrations
Decent product
- 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.
Valuable tool for SharePoint customization
- Business satisfaction in customizing things.
- Cost-free when you have on-premise environment.
SharePoint Designer Novice
- 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.
Ah-ha thoughts after using SharePoint Designer
- Cannot customize .net; Developers must use Visual Studio instead of SharePoint Designer.
- There is a maximum depth of a workflow sub-step in xamml where that is a hard limit of 125 for node depth in xaml. The maximum value of 121 levels accounts for the default activities (stage, sequence, etc.) that SharePoint Designer inserts automatically.
SharePoint Designer Review
- Facilitates business process automation and improves productivity.
- No major value add on the page design capability.
- Some value in external data (BCS) capability.
SharePoint Designer Review
- SharePoint Designer is free to download. What can be better than having a free tool to manage SharePoint?
Business solutions with SharePoint Designer
The Truth about SharePoint Designer - The Key to Success
- SharePoint Designer has been key in the success of our multiple business objects. Without SharePoint Designer (and InfoPath in most cases to customize list forms) SharePoint would be nothing more than a large collection of sites to store files. SharePoint is at the core of Holiday Retirement's corporate business from the Hiring of new Talent, Rendering Business Intelligence Reports, to Corporate Communications. The first question from the majority of managers who have a business objective, schedule a meeting with my team to inquire if SharePoint is the answer. 95% of the time, it is, and I'm very proud to be the Architect and Developer to build these solutions.
SharePoint Designer: A Necessary Evil
- SharePoint Designer is free so it's pretty easy to get a return on investment.
- It allows you to create fairly complex workflow fast to automate your business processes.
- Easily create workflows
- Easily create custom pages
There's no SharePoint without SharePoint Designer
- It helps me get work completed quicker.
- It allows me to not have to use custom development (programming) to provide custom solutions to customers.
- With workflows alone we have had a positive ROI because it gives us increased functionality and value with a smaller amount of development time needed.
- The testing of workflows or pages is more structured and we have less base cases than a ground-up customized development solution.
- Occasionally, we will have a negative impact on our ROI based on the work-arounds needed to make SharePoint Designer work for a specific project, but overall there has been more positive impacts than negative.
SharePoint Designer: Use With Caution
- Positive impact: End users love the custom look of their sites after I have used Designer to spice it up a bit.
- Negative impact: Other end users now want *their* sites to be spiced up similarly. More work for my team is a good thing, but each time I work in Designer, I am afraid that I am adding another impediment to our eventual upgrade to 2013.