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Bring back the visual designer in SharePoint designer

Power users are at a real disadvantage now that the visual part of SharePoint designer has been removed.

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  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I think removal of visual SPD indicates Microsoft doesn't understand the user base for SharePoint. It's popular precisely because it's usable by power users and not just developers who can code. Removing visual SPD seems like an instance of cutting of your nose to spite your face, as the saying goes.

  • HarzicN commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please bring back visual designer in SPD 2013. This was a great feature and it is greatly missed. Some jobs do not require the full Visual Studio interface.

  • David commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    In addition to bringing back the visual aspect, also bring back the ability to add conditional formatting in views.

  • Mark commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Either bring it back to Designer or work closer with Adobe so their products integrate with SharePoint.

  • Matthew Carter commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I am NOT a developer, to be able to edit and alter the system without requiring knowledge of Visual Studio is important to my using the product and being productive!

  • Jason commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes this is very useful in particuarly for xslt data filter web parts and conditional formatting (color coding based on metadata values). Maybe this is one reason why my company is hesitant to leave SP 2010 right now. Although I have found SP 2013 to be awesome too. The lack of design view in SP Designer is by far the biggest flaw I think.

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