Microsoft SharePoint Designer
{{short description|Web design tool}}
{{About|the free web design tool by Microsoft|Microsoft's web application platform|SharePoint}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2013}}
{{Infobox software
| logo = SharePoint Designer icon.png
| screenshot = Microsoft SharePoint Designer screenshot.png
| caption = SharePoint Designer 2013 (x64) running on Windows 8
| developer = Microsoft
| released = {{Start date and age|2006|11|30}}
| latest release version = 2013 (15.0.4849.1000)
| latest release date = {{start date and age|2016|08|02}}
| operating system = Windows 7 or later
| size = {{Nowrap|282 MB}} – {{nowrap|324 MB}}
| genre = HTML editor/Wiki editor
| license = Freeware
}}
Microsoft SharePoint Designer (SPD), formerly known as Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer, is a discontinued HTML editor freeware for creating or modifying Microsoft SharePoint sites, workflows and web pages. It is a part of Microsoft SharePoint family of products.{{cite web
|url = http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/en-us/product/Related-Technologies/Pages/default.aspx
|title = Product Information: Related Technologies
|work = Microsoft SharePoint website
|publisher = Microsoft
|access-date = January 27, 2013
}} SharePoint Designer 2007 is a part of Microsoft Office 2007 family, but is not included in any of the Microsoft Office suites. SharePoint Designer 2013 is the last version of this product.
History
SharePoint Designer and its sister product, Microsoft Expression Web, are successors of Microsoft FrontPage. While Expression Web serves as the full-featured successor to FrontPage, SharePoint Designer focuses on designing and customizing Microsoft SharePoint websites. For instance, it only includes SharePoint-specific site templates. The first version, SharePoint Designer 2007, retains more FrontPage features than Expression Web (such as web components, database, marquee, hit counter, navigation bars and map insert). SharePoint Designer 2007 was initially a commercial software product. On March 31, 2009, however, SharePoint Designer 2007 was made available as freeware.{{cite web
|url = http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=7932
|title = Video: SharePoint Designer 2007 (April 2009 Announcement)
|work = Download Center
|publisher = Microsoft
|date = April 1, 2009
|access-date = January 27, 2013
|url = http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=21581
|title = SharePoint Designer 2007
|work = Download Center
|publisher = Microsoft
|date = March 31, 2010
|access-date = January 27, 2013
}}
On April 24, 2009, Microsoft released SharePoint Designer 2007 Service Pack 2.{{cite web
|url = http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=10139
|title = Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2)
|work = Download Center
|publisher = Microsoft
|date = April 24, 2009
|access-date = January 27, 2013
}} On April 21, 2010, SharePoint Designer 2010 was released and made available for download.{{cite web
|url = http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=16573
|title = Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010 (32-bit)
|work = Download Center |publisher = Microsoft
|date = April 21, 2010
|access-date = January 27, 2013
}} On October 24, 2011, Microsoft released SharePoint Designer 2007 Service Pack 3.{{cite web
|url = http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=27815
|title = Service Pack 3 for SharePoint Designer 2007 (KB2526089)
|work = Download Center
|publisher = Microsoft
|date = October 24, 2011
|access-date = January 27, 2013
}}
SharePoint Designer 2010, the successor to SharePoint Designer 2007, was released to web on April 21, 2010 in two flavors for IA-32 and x64 CPUs.{{cite web|title=Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010 (32-bit)|url=http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=16573|work=Download Center|publisher=Microsoft|access-date=January 27, 2013|date=April 21, 2010}}{{cite web|title=Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010 (64-bit)|url=http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=24309|work=Download Center|publisher=Microsoft|access-date=January 27, 2013|date=April 21, 2010}} Unlike its predecessor, however, it does not operate in absence of Microsoft SharePoint Server or Microsoft SharePoint Foundation and therefore cannot be used as a generic HTML editor.{{cite web
|url = http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sharepointdesigner/archive/2009/11/02/sharepoint-designer-2010-new-shell-tour.aspx
|title = SharePoint Designer 2010 New Shell Tour
|work = Microsoft SharePoint Designer Team Blog
|publisher = Microsoft
|date = November 2, 2009
|access-date = January 27, 2013
|first = Kolby
|last = Hoover
|quote = A Few Limitations to Call Out [~snip~] As we shifted to being a powerful and usable toolset for SharePoint 2010, we securely attached to SharePoint. In other words, SPD focused at being only a SharePoint tool. Unfortunate for some, this means that you won’t be able to use its page editor without also having SharePoint. The page editor is only available when a SharePoint site is open.
}}
On October 30, 2012, Microsoft released SharePoint Designer 2013.{{cite web
|url = http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35491
|title = SharePoint Designer 2013
|work = Download Center
|publisher = Microsoft
|date = October 30, 2012
|access-date = January 27, 2013
}} This is the last version of SharePoint Designer; following the announcement of SharePoint 2016 in Ignite 2015 conference, Mark Kashman, Senior Product Manager of Microsoft, announced that a corresponding SharePoint Designer would not be released with this product.{{cite web|last1=Kashman|first1=Mark|title=SharePoint UNPLUGGED! Questions Answered on Anything You Heard This Week|url=http://ignite.microsoft.com/session/sessionmoreinfo/?topicid=716b2298-b4ed-e411-b87f-00155d5066d7#fbid=BUxWt91q-UE|website=ignite.microsoft.com|publisher=Microsoft|date=8 May 2015}}{{cite web|last1=Overfield|first1=Eric|title=Ignite 2015 Announcement – There will be no SharePoint Designer 2016|url=http://ericoverfield.com/ignite-2015-announcement-there-will-be-no-sharepoint-designer-2016/|website=Eric Overfield blog|date=11 May 2015}} The last update for SharePoint Designer was released on August 2, 2016.{{cite web|url=https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3114721/august-2-2016-update-for-sharepoint-designer-2013-kb3114721|title=August 2, 2016 update for SharePoint Designer 2013|work=Download Center|publisher=Microsoft|date=August 2, 2016|access-date=August 19, 2019}}
In the Spring of 2018, Microsoft's documentation indicates that Microsoft Flow will be the workflow designer and engine going forward for providing customization to SharePoint workflows.{{Cite web|url=https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/flow/frequently-asked-questions#how-does-microsoft-flow-compare-to-sharepoint-designer-2013|title=Frequently asked questions - Microsoft Flow|last=stepsic-microsoft-com|website=docs.microsoft.com|language=en-us|access-date=2018-04-24}}
Features
SharePoint Designer shares its codebase, user interface and HTML rendering engine with Expression Web, and does not rely on Internet Explorer's Trident engine.{{cite web
|url = http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdesigner/archive/2007/04/11/office-live-and-sharepoint.aspx#comments
|title = Office Live and SharePoint
|work = Microsoft SharePoint Designer Team Blog
|publisher = Microsoft
|date = April 16, 2007
|access-date = January 27, 2013
|quote = SharePoint Designer doesn't use Trident. SharePoint Designer, Expression Web, and the next version of Visual Studio's Visual Web Designer (code name Orcas) all use the same standards-based web design component. This component was developed jointly by the three product teams for high fidelity rendering of web standards like CSS, XHTML, as well as ASP.net.
|first = Rob
|last = Mauceri}} It features a workflow designer that allows users of SharePoint to create workflow so that workflow can automate the process with the concept and objects such as list item, content type, and list column within SharePoint server. Starting from SharePoint 2013, it provides a text-based designer and a visual designer for non-developer users.
References
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Further reading
- {{cite book |title = SharePoint Designer 'X' For Dummies |publisher = John Wiley & Sons |year = 2008 |isbn = 978-0-470-09601-7 |first1 = Vanessa |last1 = Williams |first2 = Dustin |last2 = Miller |first3 = Heather |last3 = Solomon}}
- {{cite book |title = Beginning SharePoint Designer 2010 |first1 = Woodrow W. |last1 = Windischman |first2 = Bryan |last2 = Phillips |first3 = Asif |last3 = Rehmani |first4 = Marcy |last4 = Kellar |publisher = John Wiley & Sons |year = 2010 |isbn = 978-0-470-64316-7}}
- {{cite book |title = Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010 Step by Step |first = Penelope |last = Coventry |publisher = Microsoft Press |isbn = 978-0-7356-2733-8}}
External links
- {{Official website|http://www.microsoft.com/spd}}
- [http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sharepointdesigner/ Microsoft SharePoint Designer Team Blog]
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