If you have worked with SharePoint Designer for any length of time, there are probably numerous features you wish you had, but don't. As Microsoft would state: "Use Visual Studio instead!" Well, in many scenarios, using Visual Studio simply is not an option because the environment dictates that workflow development cannot be published using Visual Studio. Therefore, I am forced to use SharePoint Designer.
Given this forced restriction, below is a brief list of features and capabilities that I wish I could use in SharePoint Designer:
Given this forced restriction, below is a brief list of features and capabilities that I wish I could use in SharePoint Designer:
- Be able to copy and paste from any dialog regardless of whether it is a String Builder Dialog or an E-mail message dialog
- Be able to drag and drop actions from one step to any other step
- Be able to copy and paste existing actions within a workflow
- Be able to use Encoded Absolute Url for Lists other than Document Libraries
- Be able to move actions in and out of if/else blocks
- Be able to right click on any action and convert it to a snippet
- Be able to move back and forth between design view and code view similar to designing and developing with ASP.Net Web Forms
- Provide a design surface similar to Visual Studio with drag and drop capabilities of any action, condition, step etc.
- Be able to design a "SharePoint Designer-compatible worklow" in Visual Studio and import it into SharePoint Designer
- Be able to put break points, debug assertions or traces in a workflow
- Be able to step into and out of workflows by attaching to a SharePoint process
- Be able to output Debug or Logging messages to a log file or to a Web Part, MessageBox window etc.
- Be able to re-use content types across several Collect Data steps
- After deleting a conditional statement, be able to move the statements nested within the conditional statement elsewhere.
- After adding a lookup for a user, be able to view and edit the details for the user lookup.
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