Microsoft SharePoint Designer Team Blog

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 there, Lakesha Smith here with some tips to help you get answers to your questions. SharePoint Designer has quite a few online resources that provide you with ways of getting answers to questions, solutions to problems and to share community expertise...

I would like to take a few minutes to update you on SharePoint Designer 2007 distribution strategy as we completed the General Availability launch of Office 2007 and Vista. First and foremost, we have a free download of SharePoint Designer (trial version...

Hello all, My name is Sam Chung, and I’m a PM here at SharePoint Designer. In this blog we’re going to talk about a great new scenario we’ve fully enabled now with the Import/Export feature found in the Visual Designer. Introduction...

Hi, I’m JongHwa Lim, a Program Manager at SharePoint Designer team. Today, I will show you a sample workflow which was demoed at SharePoint Conference 2012 (aka. SPC 2012). In addition to it, I will modify and extend it to make it more realistic in this...

Hello. This is JongHwa Lim – a Program Manager from SharePoint Designer (aka. SPD) team. Today I’d like to introduce a feature which has been enhanced a lot from SharePoint Designer 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010. It is the workflow package feature....

Hello, fans of SPD. I am JongHwa Lim, a Program Manager of SharePoint Designer (aka. SPD). I’d like to introduce a new feature within the workflow designer in SharePoint Designer 2013. This new feature is the ability to Copy-and-Paste within the text...

Arpan Shah has a nice post on his blog explaining how to use the DataFormWebPart to render search results from Live.com . It's a tutorial (with screenshots) on how to accomplish this using SharePoint Designer - at the heart of the post you'll learn to...

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...

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...

  Hello guys, I’m Chong Youn (John) Choe, a PM in SharePoint Designer team. SharePoint and SharePoint Designer 2013 beta 2 is now on public, making us Product Group members delighted to share supplementary postings with you. This posting will describe...

  Hello SharePoint Designer users, I’m Chong Youn (John) Choe, a PM in the SharePoint Designer team. It makes me very happy to post an article on a new issue.   Background Approval is one of the key applications of workflow. A couple of actions...

Hello everyone! My name is Sam Chung, and I am a Program Manager for SharePoint Designer.  I’d like to introduce everyone to a great new feature we’ve introduced in SharePoint Designer 2013.  For those of you who work with Project Server Workflows...

Hi, this is JongHwa Lim from the SharePoint Design team. Today, I will share with you a feature for creating a Ribbon button on a SharePoint server UI. This button will start a SharePoint 2013 workflow when pressed. As a matter of fact, you can achieve...

Hello all, Sam Chung from the PM team in SPD here.  I’m happy to announce today that SharePoint Designer 2013 is now available for download here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35491 You’ve been seeing a lot of the new features...

Hi all, Sam Chung from the SharePoint Designer team again. Just wanted to quickly remind everyone that the SharePoint 2012 Conference is happening next week in Las Vegas!  This is a great opportunity for the entire SharePoint Community!  You...

Hi, I am JongHwa Lim, a Program Manager for SharePoint Designer 2013 (aka. SPD 2013 or SPD). Today, I’d like to share a simple workflow which reflects a real world scenario and also gives you some hints on what can be done with the new SPD workflow designer...

  Hello all, it’s been a long time since my last writing was posted. I’m Chong Youn (John) Choe, a PM in SharePoint Designer team. As noticed, this is the second half of the workflow starting parameters blog entries. In this entry I will go over...

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