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Microsoft SharePoint Designer Technical Preview 2010
Office SharePoint Designer 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.
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.
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.
