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SharePoint Designer (discontinued)

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65 Reviews and Ratings

What is SharePoint Designer (discontinued)?

Microsoft's SharePoint Designer was a tool for developing SharePoint applications that has been discontinued.

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SharePoint Designer - Tool to customize SharePoint

Incentivized
Jordan Deroubaix
Programmer in Information Technology at NXO (1001-5000 employees employees)

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

Other Software Used

Nintex Process Platform, SonarQube

Decent product

Incentivized
Laura Stein
Office365 Solutions Specialist in Information Technology at Union Tank Car (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

  • SP2010 workflows are the easiest way to get a text from a lookup field.
  • Workflows are free.
  • Fairly easy to use, intuitive interface.
  • Branding and CSS styling on the master page.

Cons

  • Cross-site and cross-site collection lookups.
  • Get text from lookup fields in 2013 (or next release). It is cumbersome to need multiple workflows for one task.
  • No ability to edit DispForm.aspx, etc.

Return on Investment

  • 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.

Alternatives Considered

Nintex Platform

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365 Business, Nintex Platform, Notepad++

Valuable tool for SharePoint customization

Incentivized
Krishn GargView profile
Technology Analyst in Information Technology at Infosys (10,001+ employees employees)

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

Other Software Used

PowerApps, Microsoft Flow

SharePoint Designer Novice

Incentivized
Doreen GilesView profile
Elearning Specialist, Video Production in Information Technology at State of New Jersey (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • Allows me to go directly to the file structure I want to examine.
  • Allows me to move files from one area within a site to another.
  • Good for editing the HTML code within a page.

Cons

  • Navigation between sub-sites and beyond the entry point is not seamless. I find it difficult to get to the root of a directory structure if I have not started there.
  • Would love to be able to do WYSIWYG in some form. I have only used it for a year but I have not found anything fancy to do.
  • I would like to be able to work in a development site and easily move to the production site.

Return on Investment

  • 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.

Other Software Used

Adobe Acrobat DC, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator CC

Outdated

Incentivized
Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Shows hidden lists
  • Shows sharing links so I can delete them
  • Easier to navigate from one list or library to get a quick comparison

Cons

  • The interface is really dated
  • Preview in Browser doesn't work half the time
  • There's no help or tooltips
  • Easy to go down a rabbit hole, but not always easy to revert back
  • Product is obsolete and will be deprecated.

Most Important Features

  • Editing and reviewing older site pages and settings

Return on Investment

  • Minimal, we're government and ROI isn't tracked for most objectives

Other Software Used

MS SharePoint, Nintex Promapp®, Microsoft Power Automate (formerly Microsoft Flow)