Item: SharePoint Designer (discontinued)
Rating: 8
Author: Krishn Garg

Overall Satisfaction with SharePoint Designer

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Customization of SharePoint.
Deployment of workflow solutions.

Cons

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

Return on Investment

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

Alternatives Considered

PowerApps and Flow

These products are very good alternatives to SharePoint Designer but SharePoint Designer stacks up when you are using it for on-premise SharePoint environment.

Support Rating

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.

Key Insights

Do you think SharePoint Designer (discontinued) delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with SharePoint Designer (discontinued)'s feature set?

Did SharePoint Designer (discontinued) live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of SharePoint Designer (discontinued) go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy SharePoint Designer (discontinued) again?

Other Software Used

PowerApps, Microsoft Flow

Likelihood to Recommend

SharePoint Designer is well suited to develop custom workflow solution and deploy on SharePoint sites. It is also used to customize site master pages and template modification along with custom search.

It is not suited for designing site pages and for developing highly customized solutions, as it will crash.

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Valuable tool for SharePoint customization