Item: SharePoint Designer (discontinued)
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SharePoint Designer

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SharePoint Designer is currently being used to provide custom solutions to end-users. It is currently only being used by the SharePoint Team. SharePoint Designer helps automate business processes by sending notifications through custom workflows and by creating custom reports using web part pages.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Helps developers create a custom look and feel for new, edit and display forms.
Gives user the ability to create parameters and connect web parts.
Gives users the ability to create custom workflows.

Cons

SharePoint 2010 is very buggy and it often crashes.

Return on Investment

It helps me get work completed quicker.
It allows me to not have to use custom development (programming) to provide custom solutions to customers.

Alternatives Considered

Dreamweaver

SharePoint Designer should be used for SharePoint it was made for this purpose. Trying to use Dreamweaver with SharePoint just doesn't work.

Other Software Used

Adobe Photoshop

Likelihood to Recommend

I would have to say no. Most out of the box functionality can be done in SharePoint Designer as well as within SharePoint. I think it's okay to use both if you have the permissions to do so. If you aren't a power users or developer I would recommend not using SharePoint Designer because you could easily make modifications that weren't intended.

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There's no SharePoint without SharePoint Designer