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Microsoft provides support for SharePoint designer to use in SharePoint online sites. You can using SharePoint Designer to create workflow in SharePoint online.
Is SharePoint being deprecated?
Site Mailbox. As we announced in the SharePoint Community Blog, site mailboxes are being deprecated in SharePoint. Site mailboxes will remain supported, but deprecated, in the SharePoint Server 2019 release. Customers are recommend to explore shared mailboxes as an alternative to site mailboxes.
SharePoint Designer 2010 works only with SharePoint 2010. If you are using Office 365, then you are in luck because SharePoint Online in Office 365 is based on SharePoint 2010.
Is SharePoint still relevant?
With now 19 years on the market, SharePoint keeps its position as the most used collaboration solution. About 80% of Fortune 500 companies use SharePoint for intranet, internal communications, and collaboration. And with the progress that the platform has been making, it’s not likely to go away anytime soon.
SharePoint 2010 workflow creation with SharePoint Online using SharePoint Designer 2013 will be turned off for any newly created tenants starting August 2020 and existing tenants starting November 2020. SharePoint Designer 2013 will work with SharePoint Server 2019 for the remainder of the client support lifecycle (2026).
Is the Microsoft 365 workflow for SharePoint still supported?
SharePoint 2013 workflows will remain supported, although deprecated. However, we recommend customers move to Power Automate or other supported solutions, such as those from Preferred members of our Microsoft 365 Business Apps Partner Program. Starting in November 2020, SharePoint 2013 workflows will be turned off by default for new tenants.
As a complement to authoring workflows in SharePoint Designer, you can also use Microsoft Visio 2013 to structure your workflow logic by using Visio 2013 shapes, and then import your logic into SharePoint Designer 2013. For information about using Visio 2013 to author your workflow logic, see Workflow development in SharePoint Designer and Visio.
Can you still use SharePoint Designer with SharePoint?
Yo should avoid to use SharePoint Designer for several reasons: (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