Hello all, I’m Chong Youn (John) Choe, a PM on the SharePoint Designer team. SharePoint Designer is a handy tool and is designed to embrace those who are not developers. I will be creating a series of posts about fundamental features that can help you...

Hello all, my name is Sam Chung and I’m a PM on the SharePoint Designer team. In this blog I’m going to talk about how you can use Visio 2010 and SPD 2010 together to create workflows. In addition, I’m going to touch base on some common issues and questions...

Hello, there. I’m JongHwa Lim, a PM in the SharePoint Designer team. Long time no see. Some people might have considered this site dead because there have been no new posts since April of last year but we are back. We will keep this site alive and will...

Hello All, My name is Sam Chung, and I'm a PM on the SharePoint Designer team.  I just wanted to let everyone know that we're bringing back to life this blog and that we will be posting new entries in the upcoming weeks.   There have been...

It's here! To keep this brief - we're pleased to announce the availability of SharePoint Designer 2010 , along with the release of SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010. Download it now for free using the following links: 32 bit , 64 bit . Enjoy!

Hi, Kolby here again. As we get closer to releasing SharePoint 2010, I’m getting more and more excited about our product and some of the new functionality we’ve added in 2010. I’m particularly looking forward to theming capabilities that the SharePoint...

Want to learn more about how to control SPD 2010 usage across your SharePoint sites? Check out this video tutorial for managing SharePoint Designer to get a comprehensive rundown. For more helpful tips and tricks, please also visit the Get the Point blog...

Travis here again from the SharePoint Designer development team. In my last post , I introduced you to a few of the new features of the workflow editor in SharePoint Designer 2010. This time, I’d like to show some of the new keyboard features in the editor...

Hi everybody, I’m Travis from the SharePoint Designer development team. Hopefully by now some of you have been able to download and evaluate the beta for SharePoint and SharePoint Designer 2010. (If you haven’t, consider this a sneak preview for the upcoming...

Hi folks, Sean Gabriel here, Program Manager on the SPD workflow team. I recently presented a session on human workflow at SPC , and wanted to share out the core of the talk with a broader audience. We’ll also be following up with deep dives into the...

Hi. Kolby here, a Program Manager on the SharePoint Designer team. Today I want to show you a couple nice tools that come in handy when modifying page styles and layouts that use CSS. I’ve personally found them very helpful when making custom master pages...

Part 2 of the series has been posted to the SharePoint Team Blog . Happy reading!

There’s been a lot of interest in the demo that was done at the SharePoint Conference where we used XSLT to visualize a contact list as a map. We have existing information out there on this topic so we wanted to bring it all together in one blog entry...

Hi there, Mihai Coman here. I’m a new Program Manager on the SharePoint Designer team. Over the last couple of weeks you’ve gotten a better idea of some of the new capabilities of SharePoint Designer. There’s a ton of new features and UI components to...

Hello. This is Greg Chan, a Program Manager on the SharePoint team. I am excited to kick-off a new blog series that will cover a wide spectrum of topics related to the new List View in SharePoint 2010. What is a List View again? Put simply, a List...

Welcome to SharePoint Designer 2010! As Todd Haugen mentioned in his latest blog, we’ve got a number of wonderful features this release and we’re really excited to get them into your hands. This is a follow-up blog to dive into the new shell, or user...

For those of you who have been with us for the long haul, you know SharePoint Designer (SPD) evolved from the FrontPage product. The result of this lineage was SPD 2007 largely focused on web page editing and added some SharePoint capabilities. In SPD...

Hello all, Stephen here again — I’m a writer for SharePoint Designer. I’d like to tell you about a fix that was included in Service Pack 2 for Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 . This fix affects workflows designed in SharePoint...

Today we are excited to share with you some news about SharePoint Designer 2007. Starting now (April 2, 2009), SharePoint Designer 2007 will be available as a free download! We want more of you customizing SharePoint and feel that this a good way to put...

Hello all, Stephen here again. Awhile back I recorded a series of workflow videos that were posted on Office Online: Watch this: Design a document review workflow solution Many of you have submitted comments asking if I could make available both the Visio...

Hi! J.R. and Kolby here to share an exciting example of the mashup capabilities of SharePoint. This is the first of two blog entries discussing how to use SharePoint Designer 2007 to create mashups. The word "mashup" has become one of the most repeated...

Hello all, Stephen here again – I’m a writer for SharePoint Designer. As you know, SharePoint Designer 2007 is a powerful tool for editing SharePoint sites — so powerful, in fact, that you likely have scenarios in your organization where you want to control...

We often get questions from you about pricing, licensing, purchasing, etc., so we decided to compile a list of issues we hear most frequently from you in these areas and provide you all with a high level guide for these questions. Most of this information...

Hello again, Eray Chou here. We’re hitting the tail end of this year’s conference season, and a question I’ve been asked a few times on the road is whether there are solutions or best practices for rolling back changes to page edits in WSS. One best practice...

Greetings all, Alex Malek here - I'm a member of the SharePoint workflow team. This week at PDC, I did a breakout session on how to call an external system from a SharePoint Workflow. Let's walk through what that process looks like! My Setup: Office SharePoint...