Item: SharePoint Designer (discontinued)
Rating: 8
Author: Jordan Deroubaix

Overall Satisfaction with SharePoint Designer

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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

Pros and Cons

Pros

Workflows
Editing master pages
Publishing features

Cons

Synchronization
Application's size
Application's speed

Most Important Features

Workflow
Master page
Publishing

Return on Investment

High set-up time
Complex tool

Alternatives Considered

Nintex Process Platform

In order to simplify our internal workflows, we have installed additionnal tool for our SharePoint platforms : Nintex Workflow and forms.

Compared to Nintex, SharePoint Designer is very far away. I am only talking here for 2 main features of SharePoint Designer :
- Workflows
- Forms

But for these 2 features, Nintex is way above SharePoint Designer

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?

Yes

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?

Yes

Other Software Used

Nintex Process Platform, SonarQube

Likelihood to Recommend

SharePoint does not provide, out of the box, a tool to create / update workflows from web. You have to use SharePoint Designer in order to create them.
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

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