Microsoft SharePoint Designer Team Blog

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...

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, 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...

Good day everyone, this is John Jansen again with another quick tip for working with data in SharePoint Designer. I have seen this question asked quite a bit lately both on internal aliases and external newsgroups, so I thought I would make a post for...

  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...

One of the questions often asked during our customer visits or during the trade shows or many conferences we participate in is the reason why we ended FrontPage 2003 and launched instead Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007. One thing we must say...

  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...

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, 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...

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...

Hi everyone, If you're having trouble with Delay activities not returning in SharePoint workflows, head over to this entry from the SharePoint team blog for status and information on how to help us identify the issue:) Thanks much! - Eilene Update...

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...

Would you like to help shape the future of how Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer works with data inside your SharePoint application? And be entered in a sweepstakes to win 1 of 5 FREE copies of Microsoft Office 2007 Professional? If yes, read on. ...

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 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...

Hello, Eray here -- just wanted to give everyone a quick heads up on a white paper some partners recently wrote titled, " Application Templates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: Under the Hood ." I think the paper does a good job providing a little...

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...

Hello again. It's Jon again, with another tip to make your SharePoint Designer experience better when using external data. When using external data or large data sets in SPD, you can end up with slow performance while your data is retrieved and rendered...

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...