SharePoint Designer Blog Updates
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 quite a few changes within the SPD team and these changes have made it so that we weren't able to give this blog the attention it needed up until now.
We currently have a list of topic ideas that we're reviewing to see which topic to write about. But if anyone has any blog topics that they'd love to see right away, please feel free to post it in the comments below. We will review the comment topics with our list and prioritize our blog postings accordingly.
Thank you to everyone who has continued to return to this blog hoping for updates. We apologize for the lack of updates but the blog is back now. And there will be updates soon. :)
Sam
Comments
Anonymous
April 13, 2011
Great news, looking forward to the comming articles!Anonymous
April 13, 2011
This is great. Even the archives of this blog have been helpful to me, so I welcome the return of fresh content. It's good to have this resource back.Anonymous
April 13, 2011
I have a workflow that I do at work regularly (multiple times a week) (tracking SSL Certificates that are about to expire and need to be renewed) that I would love to automate. I have them all in a SharePoint list and would love to read articles on how I go about getting started in turning this into a workflow. How do I sit down and map out my work process and then translate that into a workflow using SharePoint Designer? I think articles that deal with work processes and give advice like this would be great!Anonymous
April 13, 2011
I still remember you guys wanted to do 7 or 8 part list series... Are you guys still reviving this? blogs.msdn.com/.../sharepoint-2010-list-view-blog-series-part-2-using-the-new-sharepoint-lists.aspx NikAnonymous
April 14, 2011
How about something on how to create workflows with loops (for and while) in them. Currently exporting from Visio into SharePoint Designer doesn't support this scenario, but there's got to be a way to do it. NikAnonymous
April 14, 2011
I would like to see a scenarion desribed where you customize files through SharePoint Designer and take those to Visual Studio 2010, to depley them in an uncustomized state (as a solution). This could be the case in a dev environment where you use SP2010 and VS2010 together, where in the user acceptance and production you just deploy solutions and not do any customizations.Anonymous
April 20, 2011
Can you pls add some more articles on XSLTListView Webpart. At present, It has only 3 articles in this blog sharepoint.microsoft.com/.../Post.aspx It was very useful. ThanksAnonymous
April 21, 2011
I think SPD for workflows is not pushed enough. Also the link between SPD and Visio for import / export of workflows. I use Visio quite a bit for visualizing workflows easier and then importing into SPD to add the commands I to each section.Anonymous
April 26, 2011
Please show more workflow examples. The more examples you show and details you explain the better.Anonymous
April 26, 2011
Please show more workflow examples. The more examples you show and details you explain the better.Anonymous
April 27, 2011
Hi Sam, Great that you're bringing the blog back to life. Not sure if it's on your list already but I'd love to see the series that was started back in 2009 continued/ completed regarding the XSLT List View Web Part. In particular I'd like to see how to use the XLV with cross-web and joined data sources. CheersAnonymous
May 01, 2011
Great list of topics folks. We've added your comments to our list and we'll start going through this list and add it to our current list. We obviously won't be able to create postings on all of these topics right away, but please keep the suggestions coming; we'll do our best to create regular postings. Right now we're aiming for 1 to 2 posts a month. If time permits we'll post more frequently. Thanks, SamAnonymous
May 05, 2011
Hello Sam! Would be awesome if you go through the case of creating a list workflow (in Visual Studio) that would be able to dynamically add/remove items into "List Item Menu". So that you can sort of add or remove drop-down actions to each list item individually, depending on this item's workflow state or some other conditions. Thanks.Anonymous
May 21, 2011
Could you please improve the Help System for SPD 2010. There are many menu items and features of this app that are not mentioned at all in the online Help system. As a minimum, you should be providing links to the other information that has been previously developed in MSDN or Technet. We should not be entering a search term for an menu item and get ZERO results. This is tremendously frustrating and a major waste of our time. Thanks DeanAnonymous
June 05, 2011
I did an upgrade (database attach) from 2007 to 2010. Now people are asking me why, on their list view, when they create a new event, the option to categorize the list is gone. I looked and the section for category really is not there. How can I get it back?Anonymous
July 05, 2011
Reiterating Nik Patel & Ram's requests for more on the List View Series. While early articles were good, there's so much more depth to be explored w.r.t. the XLVs and sadly, finding solid information and how-to's seems to be quite difficult. So definitely "more please". Also kudos on the revival of this blog.Anonymous
June 14, 2012
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June 18, 2012
Sorry, we haven't beena ble to really keep updating this blog like we wanted. But I can assure that we haven't been just sitting around. We've been working on some really amazing stuff for the next release. :) We'll have more updates as we get closer to the next release of Office. :)Anonymous
July 30, 2012
this resources are very helpful to me. i am expecting more articles regarding sharepoint from you. thanks for the post.