Give the SharePoint Designer a Chance!

Jan Tielens, Microsoft @jantielens

http://weblogs.asp.net/jan

Positioning for SPD 2010

THE tool for building complete, rich, reusable, process-centric applications on the SharePoint platform that integrate with external data

Target Audience

Power Information Workers Business Unit IT / Developers

New User Experience

• SharePoint artifact-centric navigation – Gallery Page – Summary Page – Edit Page

• Fluent UI Integration • Breadcrumb • Navigation Bar

Views & Forms

• XSLT List View Web Part

• Format from Ribbon

• Add custom action to list or ribbon

• Infopath form for New Item, View Item, Edit Item

Improved Workflow • Reusable declarative workflow templates

– List, Reusable, Site

• Import/Export workflows to Visio

• Nested If/Then/Else

• Associate with Content Type

• Edit Approval/Feedback/Signature workflows

• Impersonation Approval (content author vs. approver)

• Workflow visualizations

External Content Types & BCS

– ECT – Formerly Business Data Entity

– External Lists – created from ECT

– Business Data Column from ECT

– Access External Lists in Outlook/Workspace

Administration • Only Site Collection Admins can

– customize pages, master pages and page layouts

– Access All Files

– Edit pages in Advanced Mode

• Versioning for Site Pages

• No “un-ghosting” or customizing pages so upgrade is easier

Resources • http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint-

designer-help/whats-new-in-sharepoint-designer-2010-HA010370728.aspx

• http://sharepoint-nirvana.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=153:comparison-between-sp-designer-2007-a-sp-designer-2010&catid=99:sharepoint-designer

• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179083.aspx