Designer 2010 Enhancements

Designer 2010 has a large number of enhancements over Designer 2007 that include a redesigned interface, Visio 2010 integration, extensive use of InfoPath forms, capability to create External Content Types and External Lists, and many other features. For developers who are familiar with SharePoint Designer 2007, some of the highlights of SharePoint Designer 2010 include the following:

Impersonation steps— Enable workflows to run under the context of another user other than that of the executing user. This enables a user with lesser privileges to start a workflow that can then perform actions that the author of the workflow has permissions to perform. This eliminates a major challenge in workflow design in which the ...

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