Microsoft SharePoint Designer (SPD), formerly known as Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer, is a discontinued

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for creating or modifying

Microsoft SharePoint SharePoint is a web-based Collaborative software, collaborative platform that integrates natively with Microsoft Office. Launched in 2001, SharePoint is primarily sold as a document management and storage system, but the product is highly confi ...

sites, workflows and web pages. It is a part of Microsoft SharePoint family of products. SharePoint Designer 2007 is a part of

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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,

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, are successors of

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. 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

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product. On March 31, 2009, however, SharePoint Designer 2007 was made available as

. On April 24, 2009, Microsoft released SharePoint Designer 2007

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2. On April 21, 2010, SharePoint Designer 2010 was released and made available for download. On October 24, 2011, Microsoft released SharePoint Designer 2007 Service Pack 3. SharePoint Designer 2010, the successor to SharePoint Designer 2007, was released to web on April 21, 2010 in two flavors for

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and

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CPUs. Unlike its predecessor, however, it does not operate in absence of

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or Microsoft SharePoint Foundation and therefore cannot be used as a generic

. On October 30, 2012, Microsoft released SharePoint Designer 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. The last update for SharePoint Designer was released on August 2, 2016. In the Spring of 2018, Microsoft's documentation indicates that

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will be the workflow designer and engine going forward for providing customization to SharePoint workflows.

Features

SharePoint Designer shares its codebase, user interface and HTML rendering engine with Expression Web, and does not rely on

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engine. 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.

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Microsoft SharePoint Designer Team Blog
{{MS DevTools HTML editors SharePoint Designer SharePoint Designer Windows-only freeware

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