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Can we still use SharePoint designer with SharePoint Online in 2021?
- If you have SharePoint online, then you also have PowerAutomate. You can use a similar approach to the SharePoint Designer workflow, but instead of that legacy tool, create a new workflow in PowerAutomate that is triggered when an item is changed in the SharePoint list.
Laying out all the details is a bit much for one question. Suffice it to say that it is possible to build this in Power Automate, but in order to do so, you may want to extend your budding SharePoint online skills to include Power Automate. There are lots of free resources on the internet.
(1) With modern sites, SP Designer is not a tool to be used to customize sites
(2) SP 2010 / 2013 Workflows are not supported anymore in SPO
Actually SharePoint Designer is a better and easier tool to use to develop premium sites that can use W3 tools to display amazing dynamic content using lists that you develop in SharePoint that include document libraries. You can design responsive pages using W3 components unlike the modern interface that forces you to code so much more. Even though it's called low code it's actually double code. Since all of the code is SPFx collecting information easily has gone away. The complexity of the modern interface almost forces people to go back to school to relearn new and overly complicated methodology. By simply turning on SharePoint Designer you can have a much more intuitive site that can work like your business rather than being forced to do things another way.
As for workflows I would use Power Automate it is the best tool at the moment even though you have to do a little coding and know some nuances. There is plenty of helpful information on how to. The nice part is this is the only tool that I like about the modern stuff.