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Innovative Solutions for a Secure, Modern Workplace: Advanced Tools and Apps for Microsoft 365 SharePoint Online, Teams, & SharePoint On-Premises

Trusted SharePoint Tools for Microsoft 365

Lightning Tools builds powerful, no-code solutions for SharePoint Online and Microsoft 365. Whether you need to build forms, manage SharePoint permissions, visualize data, or create structured discussions, our web parts enhance your intranet, dashboards, and digital workplace.
SharePoint Permissions Management

SharePoint Permissions Management & Reporting for Site Owners & SharePoint Administrators

SharePoint Form Design

Powerful integrated form designer for Microsoft SharePoint list forms. Build improved layouts and logic easily.

SharePoint Content Aggregation

Aggregate from Lists & Libraries, M365 Apps such as Planner & OneDrive, and External Connectors such as SQL and Salesforce.

Discussion Board for SharePoint & Teams

Structured discussion boards for SharePoint & Teams. Helping users find answers to questions in real-time and in the future.

Data Visualization & Connectivity

Build powerful grid views or charts based on content within SharePoint, Excel workbooks, and external connectors to business data.

Actions & Automation Builder

Create automation action buttons within the SharePoint list or library command bar, and buttons or tiles within SharePoint pages.

List Item Document Generator

Generate Microsoft Word documents from SharePoint list items allowing documents to be shared externally, printed, or stored.

Legacy Form Migration

Migrate legacy form designs and data from InfoPath, PDF, Form Images (& more) to SharePoint Lists powered by Lightning Forms.

Tool of the Month: Social Squared

Social Squared brings structured, forum-style discussions to SharePoint and Microsoft Teams, transforming your intranet into a true community platform. From threaded conversations that capture knowledge long term, to moderation, tagging, and powerful search—Social Squared makes it easy to share expertise and improve communication across teams. This month, we’re highlighting its role in helping organizations build vibrant SharePoint communities that foster collaboration, learning, and engagement.

Upcoming Webinar
Content Aggregation in SharePoint Online with Lightning Conductor
16th October 2025

Managing content across multiple SharePoint sites, libraries, and lists can quickly become overwhelming. That’s where the Lightning Conductor comes in. Join us for this webinar to see how you can transform scattered content into powerful reports directly within SharePoint Online.

We’ll explore how the Lightning Conductor enables you to:

  • Aggregate content from SharePoint lists and libraries across sites and site collections.

  • Connect to Microsoft 365 entities such as Planner tasks, OneDrive documents, and Teams.

  • Incorporate external sources like JIRA for a complete view of your work.

  • Present information in a variety of ways—calendar, grid, tiles, or charts.

  • Enhance dashboards by combining the Lightning Conductor with the Filter Provider and Data Viewer.

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Watch Our Latest SharePoint & Microsoft 365 Webinars

Catch up on our most popular webinars covering SharePoint, Microsoft 365, and the Power Platform. From building forms and dashboards to managing permissions and improving intranets, our sessions are packed with real-world demos and expert insights. Watch on-demand at your own pace — no sign-up required.

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Webinar: Social Squared Discussion Forums Community Platform for SharePoint

Looking for a better way to build structured discussions in Microsoft 365? In this recorded webinar, Brett Lonsdale (Microsoft 365 MVP and CEO of Lightning Tools) demonstrates Social Squared, a powerful SharePoint Community Platform Tool for creating organized discussion forums inside SharePoint and Microsoft Teams.

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Migrate InfoPath Forms to Power Apps – Watch the Full Webinar

Discover how to migrate InfoPath forms and data to Power Apps using Lightning Tools Form Migrator. In this webinar, Microsoft 365 MVP Brett Lonsdale demonstrates how to scan your SharePoint environment, convert InfoPath forms into Power Apps (Canvas or Integrated), and preserve legacy data — all with minimal effort. A must-watch for organizations ready to modernize their SharePoint forms.

Latest Insights on SharePoint & Microsoft 365

Explore expert insights on SharePoint, Microsoft 365, and the Power Platform.
Our blog covers real-world tips, product updates, and how-to guides to help you get more from your digital workplace.

SharePoint Form External Data Lookup
Supercharging SharePoint Forms with External Data Lookups

SharePoint’s standard lookup column only lets you connect lists within the same site—useful, but limited. With the latest release of Lightning Forms and Forms Studio, you can now create lookup fields that pull data from external systems like SQL, JIRA, and Salesforce using Copilot Connectors. In this post, I’ll show you how we built a Helpdesk Issues form that pulls related issues directly from JIRA, and explain the difference between Lightning Forms and Forms Studio.

Solution Builder for SharePoint
Lightning Tools Forms Studio: A True Solution Builder for SharePoint

Lightning Tools Forms Studio is more than a form builder—it’s a complete solution builder for SharePoint and a cost-effective Power Platform alternative. Design custom forms, automate approvals and actions, package and redeploy solutions, and even migrate legacy InfoPath or Nintex forms with ease.

Social Squared Community Platform Tool for SharePoint
The Best SharePoint Community Platform Tool for Structured Discussions: Meet Social Squared

Social Squared transforms SharePoint into a structured community platform with threaded discussions, forums, and moderation tools—fully integrated with Microsoft 365 and Teams. If you’ve outgrown comments and Teams chat, this is the discussion board you’ve been looking for.

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Andrew Connell
Voitanos
CEO

“We’re proud to call Lightning Tools a partner of Voitanos. With industry leading solutions and people at the front of customer needs with awesome tools like Lightning Conductor, Lightning Forms, and Data Viewer to name a few. Their solutions are always at the top of the list when our customers ask us for solutions to challenges they have in their organization!”

Kurt Rolland
Covenant Technology Partners
Principal Architect

“Our customers business users now complete forms which kick-off workflows and assign tasks. The new forms guide the user to provide more accurate and
complete information. Once the form is submitted, the associated tasks are assigned and emailed to the appropriate personnel.
Immediately the users know which requests are in progress, in revision, or complete and who the open tasks are assigned to and when they were assigned. This is a significant improvement over the original process of email requests being sent back and forth with an outdated Excel form. Employees can now see who made the request, who approved it, who completed the tasks, and who fulfilled the request, making the process easy and transparent.”

Toby Pior
Andrew Wommack Ministries
Intranet Supervisor

Before Lightning Conductor, all we had available to us was default SharePoint views and custom coded JSON views, which were difficult to built and maintain and had plenty of limitations. Lightning Conductor perfectly filled that gap and allowed us to easily create simple dashboards that pull from SharePoint lists. Read more

Gary Buck
Network Rail
IMS Manager

I was just about managing to create as view in my document library but it meant that I was the only one who could create views and it took me forever to create each view as it came along. With this tool I am able to very quickly create the view I need and can also let others self-serve. The tool I am sure will continue to benefit us in many ways.

Julie Bird
Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service
M365 and SharePoint Deployment

Having experience of SharePoint On Premise and also SharePoint Online, there isn’t an out of the box app/webpart that enables you to ‘roll up content’ from a variety of source’s (in my case SP Lists, but there are many other data sources it works with) across site collections with an easy to use and intuitive interface which is what Lightning tools excels at.

Miroslav Pomsar
Veolia
System Administrator

Due to the large proportion of external workers, as well as new and departing employees, it is necessary to frequently change user and group permissions at all levels and in all areas of SharePoint data structures. In those cases, the Lightning Tools DeliverPoint tool is a great and valid helper for us. Also it is very useful for making reports of using rights of relevant objects and their subsequent processing in reports for auditors etc.

Ellie Wormsley
Trust Housing Association
Senior Service Designer & Improvement Lead

When first starting to use Lightning Forms, we had fairly simple use cases including a light touch Contact Management tool to allow colleagues to request a callback on behalf of a customer, and a Repair Request & Track tool for people to request a repair to their property and track its progress. While simple, these two cases have been largely successful and popular internally.
We are now looking to more complex use cases, including revamping our void property reletting process. This will bring together a number of departments and allow them to work together on each void in a visual way, giving everyone access to real time information and updates. This is particularly vital considering our colleagues work more remotely. We feel this solution is very powerful and is helping us strive to be sector leaders in this area.

Karlheins Sohl
City of Marion
Records Manager

We’ve used lightning forms on literally dozens of our SharePoint sites now and it’s just excellent, especially because it doesn’t interfere with our ability to governance and administer the sites. We’ve used lightning forms on literally dozens of our SharePoint sites now and it’s just excellent, especially because it doesn’t interfere with our ability to governance and administer the sites.

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Paul Shadwell
Ayaltis AG
Chief Technology Officer

Lightning Conductor helped us simplify a cumbersome document review process, making the process more efficient, more accurate, and more user-friendly.  It has also provided greater visibility to the controlled documents on our websites, enabling enhanced tracking of document control metrics.

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Stephanie Stamm
Graphic Packaging International
Training Development Specialist

Lightning Conductor helped us simplify a cumbersome document review process, making the process more efficient, more accurate, and more user-friendly.

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