The Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer object model is designed to provide Web designers with a rich set of programming interfaces to manage individual HTML documents and Windows SharePoint Services Web sites. The object model parallels other Microsoft Office application object models as closely as possible to leverage the experience and knowledge that users currently have with other programmable Office applications. In addition, the objects in the object model that access the elements in a Web page are compatible with the DHTML object model and are based on the Microsoft Internet Explorer interfaces.
Office SharePoint Designer provides a design-time user experience versus a run-time user experience, because HTML pages are usually viewed in a browser rather than in Office SharePoint Designer. Other Office applications provide a run-time user experience that contains an environment in which the developer can create solutions for the user that run within the application. With Office SharePoint Designer, you can create utilities for use to design an HTML page or Web site.
Office SharePoint Designer 2007 provides you with tools to automate your business processes, build efficient applications on top of the Microsoft SharePoint platform, and tailor your SharePoint site to your needs, all in an IT-managed environment
- Build solutions faster to enhance team productivity and efficiency
Use Office SharePoint Designer 2007 to create and deploy interactive solutions on the SharePoint platform, without having to write code.
- Automate business processes such as document approval, custom event notification, and other collaboration tasks with the Workflow Designer.
- Create reporting and tracking applications using data views and forms to easily gather and aggregate data from outside your site and from SharePoint lists and document libraries on the Web site.
- Get started fast with pre-built Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Application Templates, which are fully customizable and extensible using Office SharePoint Designer 2007.
- Extend your solutions by building advanced interactive Microsoft ASP.NET pages. Insert and edit controls with the same powerful activity menus and control property grid previously found only in development tools such as Microsoft Visual Studio 2005.
The Workflow Designer automates business processes like automated task assignment and notification associated with SharePoint lists and document libraries by setting up custom workflow conditions and actions and linking them to the SharePoint data. View a larger image.
- Design compelling SharePoint sites tailored to your organization’s needs
Office SharePoint Designer 2007 provides the professional-quality design tools you need to create great-looking SharePoint pages that are compatible with a wide range of browsers. Enjoy an intuitive design experience through a high-quality what you see is what you get (WYSIWYG) editor, format SharePoint pages quickly using cascading style sheet (CSS) tools, and easily change the layout and format of your site through full support of ASP.NET master pages.
- Manage your master pages with professional-quality design tools that enable you to easily manage styles, layout, and format. View a larger image.
Site administrators and IT managers: maintain control of your sites
Site administrators and IT managers can control exactly how Office SharePoint Designer 2007 is used to help ensure information workers have a managed and controlled experience. Set up Contributor Settings for each user role defined in your SharePoint site, and control access to specific actions such as making changes to your master pages and CSS. Specify how pages, files, and folders can be used, quickly roll back changes across your site, and help ensure that your site is properly managed and audited for browser compatibility and Web accessibility.
Use the Contributor Settings dialog to manage Contributor Groups, Editable Regions, and more.
Customize SharePoint sites exactly the way you want
Choose the format and content of your SharePoint pages with Office SharePoint Designer 2007 - the customization tool for the entire SharePoint family. You can tailor SharePoint sites to your needs and set brand requirements using the latest ASP.NET technology, established Web standards such as XHTML, and cascading style sheets.
- Maintain control over site customization.
Site administrators and IT managers can control exactly how Office SharePoint Designer 2007 is used to help ensure information workers have an IT-managed and -compliant experience. Set up Contributor Settings for each role defined in the SharePoint site, and control access to specific actions.
Additional Features
- Be more productive with next-generation Microsoft Web technologies.
Enjoy a new level of support for creating and customizing next-generation SharePoint Web sites and technologies. Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 has deep editing support for the technologies underlying Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services technology, such as ASP.NET 2.0, cascading style sheets, and Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation.
- Easily make or undo changes across entire SharePoint sites.
Make format and layout changes to entire SharePoint sites simply by editing the master page and modifying the SharePoint cascading style sheets. Undo changes to the home page using the Revert to Site Template Page command in Office SharePoint Designer 2007.
- Create workflows to automate business processes.
Automate business processes associated with SharePoint lists and document libraries using the Workflow Designer, a powerful and easy-to-use tool that comes with Office SharePoint Designer 2007. Set up custom workflow conditions and actions, link them to your SharePoint data, and deploy them with a single click, without installing server code.
- Create interactive Web pages without writing code.
Office SharePoint Designer 2007 has a full set of tools to help you integrate data into SharePoint pages and present that data using XSLT in SharePoint sites. You can access tools for using XSLT Data Views, List View Web Parts, Web Part connections, ASP.NET controls, and workflow.
Create views and forms for working with a variety of data sources using tools supported by Office SharePoint Designer 2007. Build SharePoint Web pages that present and edit data coming from SharePoint lists and document libraries, XML files, Microsoft SQL Server databases, Web services, and enterprise systems.
- Develop sites compatible with a wide range of browsers and Web standards.
Office SharePoint Designer 2007 has excellent support for creating Web pages based on Web standards such as XHTML and cascading style sheets and meeting Web accessibility requirements for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines WCAG and Section 508 (29 U.S.C. 794d), including built-in compatibility checkers for these standards.
- Build advanced ASP.NET pages.
Office SharePoint Designer 2007 supports creating and editing ASP.NET pages. It provides the same level of support as Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 for ASP.NET control hosting, property editing, toolbox, and Microsoft IntelliSense technology in Code View.
- Manage and help protect your site.
Use reports in Office SharePoint Designer 2007 to help manage your site by checking for broken links, unused pages, cascading style sheets usage, and master page usage. Site backup and restore features make it easy to save your site to a single file for helping to protect data or moving it to another server running Windows SharePoint Services technology.
System Requirements
Processor:
700 MHz or higher
Operating System:
Windows XP with Service Pack 2
Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1 or later operating system
Hard Disk:
1.5 GB
Memory:
512 MB RAM or higher
Optical Drive:
CD-ROM or DVD
Other:
Windows SharePoint Services or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is required for SharePoint site customization, workflow design, and application building functionality
Internet Explorer 6.0 or later, 32 bit browser only
Internet functionality requires Internet access
Network access required
1024x768 or higher resolution monitor
