SharePoint Designer Reviews

One of our use cases of SharePoint is designing and branding our content management system. When somebody buys an intranet portal, like a content management system, for employees or a document management system for their company, they can buy SharePoint and use it to change the branding. Microsoft gives you default features—out-of-the-box—so if you want any changes regarding your identity, HTML, CSS, colors, or brand guidelines, then SharePoint Designer can help you to complete that task. SharePoint Designer can also be used to clear workflows. This is a tool which helps us brand the SharePoint portal and our flow sites. 

In the beginning, SharePoint was deployed on-premises, but now it is deployed on the cloud, so we are always using the latest version. 

One of the most valuable features is that it's free. If you have SharePoint and you want to do some branding, then the only tool available is SharePoint Designer. Microsoft gives the portal, the content management system, and, on top of that, it gives you Designer. So we don't have a choice, but Designer is good. 

SharePoint Designer could be improved by being more user-friendly. I think that they have a new release, but the focus is on Power Automate, not Designer. Designer's interface is somewhat classical, but it should be more user-friendly. 

Designer should contain more features. Right now, we are doing the development of web parts on Visual Studio and doing the branding on Designer. If it were possible to merge them both into one tool, it would be easier. 

I have been using SharePoint Designer for 13 years. 

There is no maintenance team necessary. Users can maintain it by themselves because Designer is a tool which can be deployed on each PC to work on. 

In our organization, we have around eight to ten people who are developing on SharePoint Designer. We don't currently have plans to increase usage, but it depends. We are a project delivering company, and I am a project manager, so our SharePoint usage is on a project-based development. If we have a client we need to use SharePoint for, we may increase the usage, but otherwise we won't. 

In 13 years, we have raised tickets two or three times. They don't call us, but when we raise tickets, then the issues can be resolved. 

We also use Visual Studio from Microsoft to develop the programs for SharePoint. Designer is only for branding and workflows, but you have to use Visual Studio to actually develop the portal components and web parts. Visual Studio should be used with SharePoint. 

The installation of Designer is very simple, and it doesn't take more than 30 minutes. You can download and install it yourself. 

There is no licensing cost for Designer—it's free. 

I rate SharePoint Designer a six out of ten. There were some bugs, but when you are working on SharePoint, you have to recommend SharePoint Designer, for sure. 

We use the tool as a repository for the merger activities that occurred between two financial institutions. 

The tool offered us a seamless view of the documents that should be brought around to the executive management team members and other stakeholders. 

You can give document access to people based on their email addresses. You will also get notifications whenever the document is ready for review. 

I want the tool to be more approachable to people. I would like to see AI integration with the tool's future versions. 

I have been working with the solution for three years. 

I would rate the tool's stability a ten out of ten. 

The solution is scalable. 

The tool's initial deployment is complex. 

We have seen ROI with the use of the tool. 

The tool's pricing is cheap. 

I would rate the tool a four out of ten. You need to have an idea of how you are going to use the solution before implementing it. Once implemented, you can explore the tool. You can use ChatGPT for some advice. 

We use this solution for web applications when we need to make changes to the pages and front end. We also use it to make changes to the html, design and the user experience. 40 people use this solution in our business. 

The drag and drop feature is the most useful feature when using this solution. In addition, it is a free solution that does not require a license. 

The downside is the different versions of SharePoint which means we need to have different designers as not all versions are compatible. 

In the future, we would like to have support for SharePoint online and the latest standards of UX. 

I've been using this solution since 2006.

I would rate the initial setup an eight out of ten. 

We primarily use the solution as our internet and extranet platform and for our software.

The workflow is the solution's most valuable feature.

We work mostly with documentation and we'd like to have  it be more of a web-based. Right now, our product, our system is only set up for PDF and we're looking for a better web-based solution for our documentation.

The solution requires more web-based publishing. It would benefit from adding in more collaboration features as well.

The solution is stable.

The scalability is a little bit complex. We do have a lot of issues with scalability. It's not everything we hoped for.

We go through our own IT department, so we don't deal with technical support directly.

I'm not aware of our organization using a different solution. We've always used SharePoint Designer.

For our organization, it was quite complex. We have different departments in our group that require different access, which added a layer of complexity for us. The deployment took about a year.

We use the on-premises deployment model.

A lot of planning is necessary before deciding on a final solution or a final architecture. Planning is very important prior to implementation.

I'd rate the solution seven out of ten.

When we want to do the configuration changes or customization on the SharePoint side, we do so using SharePoint Designer.

It's a very good tool when it comes to the modification of SharePoint back pages. We use a lot of the standard tools. 

It has helped us create some strong, beautiful websites for our organization.

The master page configuration is useful. 

The solution is reasonably priced.

It is scalable.

The solution has been stable.

The initial setup is not too complex. 

The integration with SharePoint online is missing certain features. 

It needs to align with PowerApps and Power Automate. 

I've used the solution since 2016. I've used it for about seven years. 

The solution is stable and reliable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. 

It is scalable. The solution can extend well. 

Technical support is a bit tricky to talk about. We generally get support for Microsoft products in general, which is helpful. However, we've never needed help with this product.

The initial setup is very straightforward to set up. It's not complex at all. 

We have witnessed an ROI.

The pricing is reasonable overall. It's not too expensive. 

We have been using the 2016 version. 

I'd advise others to use SharePoint Designer if they value SharePoint. 

I would rate the solution eight out of ten. It has been very useful as a tool. 

We were reviewing this tool for one of our clients — we work with both medium and large enterprises. Currently, they are using Documentum but they are interested in migrating to SharePoint, so they asked us to compare the two. I am part of an IT company where we do a lot of solutions and service-based IT. We do things for many customers from the IT side.

SharePoint Designer is for the developer or the administrator, it's not for the end product (the business user).

We use SharePoint to improve sequencing and workflow design in general, and it can be used to build a workflow process from end-to-end.

We also use the classic version of SharePoint to do work on the master page, pinning, and other things. We can use SharePoint Designer for that. We also copy our data from our SharePoint site by using SharePoint Designer to cut and paste.

SharePoint Designer is a great tool. The new workflow platform, Power Automate, which can be integrated with SharePoint Designer, is going to be great because currently, SharePoint Designer is only compatible with workflows.

Because things are moving toward the cloud, they should design a pin in SharePoint Designer that would be great because we do some coding for that.

SharePoint Designer should be integrated with SharePoint, for example, SharePoint Online can be integrated with SharePoint Designer to perform activities such as backup and restoration, that would provide a great advantage for developers and administrators. Naturally, this integration would also help Microsoft grow its SharePoint market.

We use Power Automate in the cloud, it would be great if we could do that with SharePoint Designer and publish it to the cloud. It would be nice if we could work offline, too. It is not always necessary to be online. The modern platform, from Microsoft Modern UI, is easily designed with integrated teams within SharePoint Designer, which will be a great advantage.

I have been using SharePoint since June 2007. We were using SharePoint Designer 2013, but we have recently upgraded to modern SharePoint; however, because the development platform was changed, the new SharePoint Designer is very limited, so we don't use SharePoint Designer very often.

Overall, it's quite stable, but sometimes it requires maintenance.

The scalability is not a problem because this is a desktop application and it works just fine. As long as your SharePoint site is scalable, the application will work just fine. 

The technical support from Microsoft is very good. We have never had any issues with them. 

From a user's perspective, it was simple. Microsoft is user-friendly and is always simple to use. 

The setup time is very quick. I don't remember exactly, but I would say it took maybe even less than five minutes. 

We do everything. Sometimes it requires maintenance and when it does, we do it.

SharePoint is included in your Office 365 package, you don't have to buy anything extra. There is no extra license required. Typically, many customers already have the Office 365 license in place so it's just a matter of leveraging Sharepoint Online.

SharePoint Designer is just a tool. As there are a lot of key factors, I would recommend using SharePoint Designer online for internal collaboration platforms. SharePoint is not only a document management system, but it also handles content management systems, workflow automation, process automation, and more. 

SharePoint Online is a product that is included in the Microsoft Office 365 package, it is not part of Microsoft Azure. Office 365 and Microsoft 365 is a separate product altogether. People do use SharePoint Designer within the SharePoint 2016 and 2019 on-premise versions, but I see a lot of customers moving to the cloud, so they use SharePoint Online. 

I would rate it a nine out of ten.

I use it mainly for workflows or for minor changes in SharePoint master pages.

I have setup many simple and complex workflows, very useful for daily automation (invoices, travel, leave approval) . It is also useful to make small branding customizations.

The most valuable aspects of the solution are the user-friendly interface and easy creation of workflow. 

Unfortunately Microsoft announced a few years ago that the last update for SharePoint Designer was released on August 2, 2016 and that Microsoft Flow will be the workflow designer and engine going forward.

I would add Nintex or all of the Nintex workflow to the solution if I could. I would add them to SharePoint Designer so that I would need to use only one workflow designer. Right now, I'm using SharePoint Designer and Nintex, and it would be better to centralize it.

The solution is stable.

SharePoint Designer is a very small tool, and very clever. You install it on your computer to access SharePoint's entire platform. In that sense, it's not a technology that's scalable or that needs to be scalable.

I've never had to contact technical support.

The initial setup is very easy. Deployment takes five minutes; it's basically just installing the software. 

I deployed the solution myself.

We use the on-premises deployment solution.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

We use SharePoint Designer to create SharePoint sites and applications for sharing information within our organization.

The Power App is the most valuable feature. We can design it to look exactly how we want it to be, without requiring an expert's assistance to set it up. We have the freedom to make changes on our own and can easily connect and generate leads.

Power Apps has certain limitations as it is designed primarily for tablets. When deployed on a computer, it becomes much smaller. I am currently facing the challenge of maximizing its functionality on a computer. This is one of the downsides of Power Apps.

SharePoint Designer needs filter options for lists and libraries. I want to create user groups and subgroups of users to apply properties to the metadata. Currently, I'm struggling to find a workaround.

I have been using SharePoint Designer for around three years.

SharePoint Designer seems to be stable.

I give SharePoint Designer a nine out of ten. We can create sites without having to code.

I recommend SharePoint Designer to others.