Holistic Guidance - Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007

Use the Contributor Settings dialog to manage Contributor Groups, Editable Regions, and more. View larger.

Develop and Build Better Pages and Sites
Flexible and easy to use, SharePoint Designer 2007 lets you integrate business data and 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. You can also develop sites compatible with a wide range of browsers and Web standards--even build advanced ASP.NET pages with tools for control hosting, property editing, toolbox and Microsoft IntelliSense. For added peace of mind, SharePoint Designer 2007 can help manage your site by checking for broken links, unused pages, cascading style sheets usage, and master page usage. And to help avoid losing important data, the site backup and restore features make it easy to save your site to a single file for protecting data or moving it to another server.

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Enhance Team Productivity and Efficiency
SharePoint Designer 2007 makes it easy to create and deploy interactive solutions on the SharePoint platform, without having to write code. First, Workflow Designer lets you automate business processes such as document approval, custom event notification, and other collaboration tasks. Then, you can 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. You won't have to worry about time-intensive set-up, either--get started fast with pre-built Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Application Templates, which are fully customizable and extensible. Finally, 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 larger.

Design Compelling SharePoint Sites
No matter what your organization's needs, 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. You'll 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.

Maintain Better Control of Your Sites
SharePoint Designer 2007 helps site administrators and IT managers to maintain better control of their sites by giving them control over the use of the software. Managers can take advantage of the Contributor Settings to define every user's role in the SharePoint site in order to make sure workers have access only to the information they need, or they can choose to control access to specific actions such as making changes to the master pages and CSS. to help things run even more smoothly, IT professionals can specify how pages, files, and folders can be used, quickly roll back changes across the site, and help ensure that sites are properly managed and audited for browser compatibility and Web accessibility.