Forum Discussion
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
True but I can do so much more using designer. I don't use it for workflows anyhow. I mainly use it to design my pages and use my JavaScript the way I want it and not the backend of the box style. Microsoft always seems to find a way to break backend work. So, I push things into SitePages for use and it never breaks. I also use W3 CSS for a more functional look and feel. The classes I use are not Microsoft related and that gives me an edge to a clean quick design rather than fiddling with SPFx that is problematic and you need to be a rocket scientist to make it work. NodeJS errors on just about everything I have been told to do even with 1.20. The whole point of SPFx was no to low code design and it is neither. A modern page doesn't go back to 2003 Team Foundation server to make work. It improves on what is already in place. If Microsoft had made an update to SharePoint Designer and removed workflows from the design, I could go wild. They removed Creating forms because of PowerApps which is mediocre at best. You still have to do a bunch of code I never had to do with Designer because it was built in. I am still wondering why people thing SPFx is so good. It drives me nuts at every corner.