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
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