New features for SharePoint Designer 2013

 

There are some major and very welcome improvements in SharePoint Designer 2013 to overcome many of the limitations previously found in SharePoint Designer 2010:

 

1. Inclusion of Stages
2. Inclusion of Looping capability
3. Support for cut, copy and paste of workflow actions
4. Support for Visio Visual Designer 2013 within SharePoint Designer 2013 (when Visio 2013 and SharePoint Designer 2013 are installed on the same machine)
5. Rich Text Email Editor (SharePoint Designer 2010 only offered plain-text e-mail messages)
6. Ability to call Web Services