SharePoint Designer Pros and Cons
SharePoint Designer Pros
The technical support from Microsoft is very good.
View full review »The most valuable feature is the capability to directly access the SharePoint data structure.
View full review »What I like most about this solution, is that we can use it as a secondary customization platform.
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The initial setup is straightforward.
View full review »The most valuable aspects of the solution are the user-friendly interface and easy workflow.
View full review »The new version doesn't have the option to view data, but it has other, better features though.
View full review »The workflow is the solution's most valuable feature.
View full review »We used SharePoint Designer 2013 widely for data mining, exploring the content, and editing. Those are the main features that you would need to use SharePoint Designer for.
View full review »Retrieving documents and uploading them is easy.
View full review »The basic functionality the solution makes it easy to share documents or information with the team.
View full review »SharePoint Designer Cons
The new SharePoint Designer is very limited.
View full review »It would be helpful to have the SharePoint Designer capabilities built directly into SharePoint itself, into the management page, so as to create an online version of it directly in SharePoint.
View full review »There is zero technical support. I have to use Google to fix the issues myself.
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The web services aspect of the solution is very weak.
View full review »Further development for SharePoint online would be ideal. However, I'm not sure if it's true that Microsoft will no longer develop SharePoint Designer in the future or not.
View full review »I would like to be able to use SharePoint Designer without having to buy other third party programs.
View full review »The solution requires more web-based publishing. It would benefit from adding in more collaboration features as well.
View full review »SharePoint Designer is not releasing a new version. Version 2013 was the latest version. Now in 2019, we are still using the biggest version. It doesn't work properly anymore. Sometimes we experience issues, but there is no new version.
View full review »If they included some training modules, I would give them a ten, because that would make it even more user-friendly.
View full review »It has a lot of bugs. It's also not very convenient. The UX/UI is not very user-friendly and not designed to be similar to other applications from Microsoft.
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