SharePoint Designer 2007

As you know, SharePoint Designer 2007 is a powerful tool for editing SharePoint sites — so powerful, in fact, that you likely have scenarios in your organization where you want to control where and how people can use SharePoint Designer 2007. With this post, I’ll try to answer a very common question: “How can I lock down SharePoint Designer in my organization?” And I’ll try to answer the flip side of this question, which arises in an environment where SharePoint Designer has been locked down and the user asks: “Why do I see this message when I attempt to edit a site in SharePoint Designer?”

You can now download the Visio diagram and the solution shown in the series of videos "Watch this: Design a document review workflow solution". The .vsd and .stp files are available as an attachment to the blog post.

With Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007, you can link two or more data sources that contain related data and then create a single Data View that displays data from those linked data sources. Watch this video and learn how.

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This article provides some conceptual information about lookups and explains how to define workflow lookups. Also find some tips on working with lookups and ensuring unique lookups.

In this video, Robin Shelton shows how to create a "Request Interview" workflow that processes resumes that are sent as e-mail attachments to a SharePoint list by external job candidates. To view the video, sign in with a Windows Live ID, and then click either the "View Online" button to stream it over the Web or the "Download" button to save it on your hard drive and view it on your desktop in Windows Media Player.

What if you want to create your own theme in SharePoint and you want to distribute that theme to others in your organization? It’s possible, just not all that easy. For starters, you’ll need to log onto the server that hosts your SharePoint sites and make a few changes to the files that reside there. Additionally, you’ll need to use SharePoint Designer 2007 to modify some of the theme files and preview those changes on your site.

We are excited to provide insight on hot and common issues, supportability, and some how-to's for SharePoint Designer. The blog is solely authored by "support" individuals, so many of our posts will be issue + solution centric.

This video shows you how to create a mirror field to store the old or "before" value of a column, and then how to use conditions to ensure that the workflow runs only when a specific field changes. This video also shows you how the conditions prevent recursive workflows, commonly known as an "infinite loop."

You may want your workflow to collect information from the person who starts it, and then reference this information later in the workflow. You can set this up by adding custom fields to the workflow initiation form and requiring that the workflow be started manually.

Learn how to design a document review workflow and a custom Workflow Dashboard that shows you at a glance the status of all workflow tasks related to a specific document. This series of videos presents an end-to-end scenario, starting with the necessary site components and ending with saving the solution as a site template so that you can reuse it. Along the way, see how to design several secondary workflows and learn how to use a wide range of workflow lookups.

Explore Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 with training from Microsoft experts, right from your desktop. Download a simple file to get the grand tour of the latest features and changes, including a deep dive on how to build sophisticated composite applications on the SharePoint platform, a thorough review of the SharePoint Workflow Designer, and an explanation of the powerful tools at your disposal to customize SharePoint sites.

This video series shows you how to quickly and easily build complex business solutions on the SharePoint platform. Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 Business Administrator Training is a one-and-a-half hour, 300-400 level training series, produced in collaboration with the SharePoint Product Team and Total Training.

This article introduces variables and describes the different types that are available. It also shows you how to create new variables and presents a scenario that demonstrates using variables in a workflow.

The community at CodePlex has made available this project, which provides a set of custom workflow activities to make it easier to create advanced workflows with SharePoint Designer 2007.

Whatever data source you use in your application (SharePoint list, SharePoint library, database connection, etc.), you almost certainly will need to work with date values. Displaying a date value in a Data View is a fairly simple matter; you add it as you would any other column. But filtering or conditionally formatting based on date values is a more complex capability to build. In this article, I'll show you how to build rich date-value capabilities with minimal effort.

Workflows can help improve your team's efficiency. Learn the workflow basics here.

Ready to design your first workflow? Get the steps here.

Design a workflow for a form library by following the steps in this example.

Watch this screencast to learn more about using the Workflow Designer.