Microsoft SharePoint Designer Team Blog

Increasing Your Odds Of Getting Your Question Answered

Hi there, Lakesha Smith here with some tips to help you get answers to your questions. SharePoint...

Author: spdblog Date: 07/28/2008

DataViews + Visifire =Silverlight Charting Power

Hi everyone, Jon here again with a great tip on visualizing your data. In my Plotting Your Data...

Author: spdblog Date: 07/18/2008

Creating Re-usable Email Templates for SharePoint Designer 2007 Workflows

Hi there, I’m Jordan Hull, a Software Development Engineer in Test on the SharePoint Designer...

Author: spdblog Date: 07/11/2008

Training Site Template: Part 3 - Custom Views and Forms

Hi everyone, This is Sean (I know, finally!), blogging to you with the next part of the Employee...

Author: spdblog Date: 07/05/2008

CSS Style Bar Graphs using Data Views

Hi everyone, Jon here again with a quick how-to on creating a simple bar graph of your data by using...

Author: spdblog Date: 06/27/2008

Data Source Issues and Workarounds

Hey everyone! I’m Steven Weber, and I want to talk about a couple of issues with SharePoint...

Author: spdblog Date: 06/20/2008

Show Your Data in a Tag Cloud with XPath Expressions

Hi everyone, Jon Campbell here again with another great way to visualize your data in using...

Author: spdblog Date: 06/12/2008

Create compact and powerful conditions in your workflows

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Author: spdblog Date: 05/14/2008

Better Previews with Sample Data

Hello again. It's Jon again, with another tip to make your SharePoint Designer experience better...

Author: spdblog Date: 05/13/2008

Associate an SPD workflow with a specific task list

Hello all, Stephen here again with a simple but useful workflow tip. If you have used the out-of-box...

Author: spdblog Date: 03/31/2008

SharePoint Conference - Building a SharePoint Designer Mashup (Part 1)

Hi folks. This is Greg Chan, Program Manager in the SharePoint Designer team. For those of you who...

Author: spdblog Date: 03/26/2008

Filtering and Formatting with Date Values

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Author: spdblog Date: 02/25/2008

Modify the lengths of List Form Fields

Hi again, John here with a post that I hope will help out a lot of people.The scenario is simple:...

Author: spdblog Date: 01/25/2008

Issues with "Delay" activities in Workflow - Need your help!

Hi everyone, If you're having trouble with Delay activities not returning in SharePoint workflows,...

Author: spdblog Date: 01/07/2008

An Introduction to Conditional Formatting

Hi everyone, Jon here again. Today I wanted to show you how to use Conditional Formatting to really...

Author: spdblog Date: 11/10/2007

SharePoint Designer Help Articles

Hello all, I’m Stephen, the editor (and sometime writer) for SPD Help on Office Online. In...

Author: spdblog Date: 11/05/2007

ASP.Net 2.0 Navigation and SharePoint v3

Hello everyone, Jon here again with a quick tip. If you have ever wanted to use the new navigation...

Author: spdblog Date: 10/15/2007

Getting to Workflow Information

Hi, I'm Phil Allen, a developer with the SharePoint Designer team who works primarily on Workflow....

Author: spdblog Date: 10/01/2007

SharePoint Designer Data Team Survey

Would you like to help shape the future of how Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer works with data...

Author: spdblog Date: 09/19/2007

New Video Tutorials for SharePoint Designer

Microsoft and Total Training have been teaming up to produce a set of training videos for SPD. John...

Author: spdblog Date: 09/01/2007

Bringing Live Search to your SharePoint Site

Arpan Shah has a nice post on his blog explaining how to use the DataFormWebPart to render search...

Author: spdblog Date: 08/29/2007

An Introduction to Single-Sign-On (SSO) with Data Views

Hi there, I'm Russell Sasnett, a Program Manager for SharePoint Designer. Today's topic is about...

Author: spdblog Date: 08/26/2007

Announcing the CTP for VSeWSS Version 1.1

Greetings all, Alex Malek here, PM for SharePoint Designer. I'm pleased to announce that today we...

Author: spdblog Date: 08/21/2007

Porting SharePoint Designer Workflows to Visual Studio

Hey everyone, A lot of people ask if SPD workflows can be customized in Visual Studio so that you...

Author: spdblog Date: 07/06/2007

White Paper Goes Under the Hood

Hello, Eray here -- just wanted to give everyone a quick heads up on a white paper some partners...

Author: spdblog Date: 06/29/2007

How to Integrate Virtual Earth Maps with a SharePoint List

Hi everyone, My name is Greg Chan and I’m a Program Manager in the SharePoint Designer team. I’ve...

Author: spdblog Date: 06/16/2007

Using Javascript to Manipulate a List Form Field

Hi, my name is Rob Howard, and I’m a Program Manager with the SharePoint Designer team. Like...

Author: spdblog Date: 06/13/2007

Plotting Your Data Using Virtual Earth

Hello SharePoint Designer users, My name is Jon Campbell – I’m a developer for the SharePoint...

Author: spdblog Date: 05/24/2007

Hotfix for Time-Based SPD Actions Available

Hi folks, Gabe Hall here again. If you are using 'Pause For Duration' or 'Pause Until Date' in your...

Author: spdblog Date: 05/02/2007

SPDataSource and Rollups with the Data View

Hello -- my name is Eray Chou. I’m a Program Manager on the SharePoint Designer team. I focus...

Author: spdblog Date: 04/24/2007

Creating a linkable image in a view of XML data

Good day everyone, this is John Jansen again with another quick tip for working with data in...

Author: spdblog Date: 04/19/2007

Office Live and SharePoint

Hey all – Rob Mauceri here. I’m the group program manager for the Office SharePoint Designer team....

Author: spdblog Date: 04/11/2007

Tip: Clearing the SPD workflow assembly cache

Hi folks, it's Gabe Hall again with a quick tip you can use when developing workflow activities on...

Author: spdblog Date: 03/28/2007

Visual Studio extensions for Windows SharePoint Services

Hello all, My name's Alex Malek, I'm a Lead PM on the SharePoint Designer team. During my day job, I...

Author: spdblog Date: 03/27/2007

Training Site Template - Part 2: Workflows

Hey there, It's Sean again with another installment of the template development walkthrough. Last...

Author: spdblog Date: 03/24/2007

Adding Activities to SPD

Hey everyone, Eilene Hao and Gabe Hall here, a program manager and developer on the SPD workflow...

Author: spdblog Date: 03/15/2007

Training Site Template - Part 1: Introduction

Hi folks, Sean Gabriel here. I'm a Program Manager for the SharePoint Designer team, and I work...

Author: spdblog Date: 03/10/2007

SharePoint Designer Training Videos Now Available Online

The SharePoint Designer product team is excited to announce the first wave of the SharePoint...

Author: spdblog Date: 03/07/2007

ASP.NET Controls Filter the Data View

Hey there, My name is John Jansen and I'm one of the Test Leads for the SharePoint Designer (SPD)...

Author: spdblog Date: 03/05/2007

Where can I find SharePoint Designer 2007?

I would like to take a few minutes to update you on SharePoint Designer 2007 distribution strategy...

Author: spdblog Date: 01/31/2007

SharePoint Designer 2007 Positioning

One of the questions often asked during our customer visits or during the trade shows or many...

Author: spdblog Date: 01/31/2007

Welcome to the SharePoint Designer Team Blog!

Hello and welcome, We are very excited to launch this SharePoint Designer Team Blog as one of our...

Author: spdblog Date: 01/23/2007

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