Microsoft SharePoint Designer Team Blog

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...

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 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...

  Introductions: Hello all, my name is Sam Chung and I am a Program Manager for SharePoint Designer. I’m very proud to introduce everyone to one of our biggest investment for SharePoint Designer 2013, which is the Visual Designer. Before we begin...

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 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...

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...

  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 all, my name is HyongGuk Kim, a Senior Program Manager on the SharePoint Designer team. In this blog I’m going to talk about how we can easily write a SharePoint 2013 workflow which consumes public or commercial HTTP (REST) web service...

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 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...

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, 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! The SharePoint Designer team is very proud and happy to announce the release of SharePoint Designer 2013 Customer Preview! This new release of SharePoint Designer is going to bring about a HOST of new and amazing changes which we’re all hoping...

  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...

Hello all, I’m Chong Youn (John) Choe, a PM on the SharePoint Designer team. SharePoint Designer is a handy tool and is designed to embrace those who are not developers. I will be creating a series of posts about fundamental features that can help you...

Hello all, my name is Sam Chung and I’m a PM on the SharePoint Designer team. In this blog I’m going to talk about how you can use Visio 2010 and SPD 2010 together to create workflows. In addition, I’m going to touch base on some common issues and questions...

Hello, there. I’m JongHwa Lim, a PM in the SharePoint Designer team. Long time no see. Some people might have considered this site dead because there have been no new posts since April of last year but we are back. We will keep this site alive and will...

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...

It's here! To keep this brief - we're pleased to announce the availability of SharePoint Designer 2010 , along with the release of SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010. Download it now for free using the following links: 32 bit , 64 bit . Enjoy!

Hi, Kolby here again. As we get closer to releasing SharePoint 2010, I’m getting more and more excited about our product and some of the new functionality we’ve added in 2010. I’m particularly looking forward to theming capabilities that the SharePoint...

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...

Travis here again from the SharePoint Designer development team. In my last post , I introduced you to a few of the new features of the workflow editor in SharePoint Designer 2010. This time, I’d like to show some of the new keyboard features in the editor...

Hi everybody, I’m Travis from the SharePoint Designer development team. Hopefully by now some of you have been able to download and evaluate the beta for SharePoint and SharePoint Designer 2010. (If you haven’t, consider this a sneak preview for the upcoming...

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...