Organizations often find that the standard
out-of-the-box workflows simply do not provide enough flexibility to
meet their requirements and want to be able to access additional tools
to create these workflows, and the logic that drives them. SharePoint
Designer 2010 can be used to create a wide variety of workflows, to
include list workflows, reusable workflows, and site workflows.
SharePoint Designer 2010 also allows interactivity with Visio 2010 as
well as InfoPath 2010 and a host of other tools to facilitate the
overall design and implementation process.
Power users and
developers who will be using SharePoint Designer 2010 should verify that
it is supported by IT, even though the software can be downloaded for
free, to ensure that it will function properly. Often, due to
configurations in SharePoint or on the desktop, SharePoint Designer 2010
will not function properly if IT is not prepared to “officially”
support it.
In addition, the
farm administrator may have chosen to not allow the use of SharePoint
Designer from the Central Administration site. This should be verified
to avoid possible confusion or issues during the development process.
To configure SharePoint
Designer settings for a web application, follow these steps:
1. | Open
SharePoint 2010 Central Administration and click Manage Web Applications
from the Application Management Section.
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2. | Select the web application to manage (such as
SharePoint – 80), and then click the General Settings button on the
Ribbon bar and choose SharePoint Designer from the drop-down menu that
appears. The Configure SharePoint Designer Settings are typically all
checked. If one or more are not enabled, that will limit the level of
SharePoint Designer 2010 customizations possible.
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3. | Click OK when finished.
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The options are as follows:
Allow
SharePoint Designer to be used in this Web Application— If this option is not checked (enabled), SharePoint
Designer can’t be used in the web application.
Allow
Site Collection Administrators to Detach Pages from the Site Template— “Old timers” in the SharePoint world will
remember this as the “unghosting” process.
Allow
Site Collection Administrators to Customize Master Pages and Layout
Pages.
Allow Site Collection Administrators to see
the URL Structure of their Web Site.
