Lightning Forms
Core Features
ightning Forms stands as an intuitive solution for SharePoint list form design, empowering you to enhance the logic, layout, and aesthetics of your contemporary, responsive SharePoint Forms. With Lightning Forms, you gain access to an array of powerful features including cascading lookups, tailored buttons with actions, seamless integration of repeating lists, tab controls, comprehensive styling options, and conditional control formatting. Additionally, the tool provides straightforward calculations and expressions. These capabilities collectively facilitate the effortless creation of business forms within SharePoint, providing an outstanding alternative to InfoPath Forms.
Use Intuitive Calculations & Expressions
Cascading Lookups, Hide Fields, Field Validation, Cross List Calculations, Actions, and Default values can all be performed easily. Being integrated into SharePoint means that we have the context of the list and environment variables to hand to help with your calculations.
Try Out Lightning Forms
Lightning Forms offers the ability to redesign your SharePoint List forms to reflect the business needs. Using Lightning Forms, you can easily transform the SharePoint List Forms such as New Form, Edit Form, and Display Form to meet your business requirements of a business form or business solution. You can improve the layout to suit the needs of the business, add business logic, and include styling and conditional formatting. All of this can be achieved while retaining the modern, responsive SharePoint list forms.
The Contextual Design Experience
With some form designers, the design experience doesn’t have the SharePoint list context. Lightning Forms provides a design experience for your SharePoint Modern List Forms where you have the context of the form you are customizing. You can test your logic with existing list items, build expressions using existing fields belonging to the list you are modifying, and test your changes without committing your changes to the list. Once you are happy, you can save the changes, and easily revert back to the original design if you need to. Having the context of the SharePoint List within your design tool also means that any environment values such as user profiles and site properties can be used and tested within the design experience.
With Lightning Forms, you can build powerful expressions for calculating field values, hiding fields and other controls, adding actions to buttons or the form load experience, and much more. You don’t need to be a programmer to accomplish adding business logic. The Lightning Forms expression builder is intuitive, and guides you through your expressions. Issues with your expressions are explained in the interface and can also be tested without existing from the design experience.
Modern SharePoint List Forms look great! They are responsive, and modern looking! The colours of controls adhere to the theme applied to your SharePoint site. Lightning Tools doesn’t break from that modern experience, but it does allow you to add styling and conditional formatting to any control on your form. This can be used to highlight to users where they have incorrectly completed the form. You can highlight tabs, change border colours and labels based upon conditions to make form completion very intuitive.
Within Microsoft InfoPath, you may have used repeating tables. With Lightning Tools, you can achieve the same results with our sublists. You can embed another list within your site, onto the form of another list. An example is an Expense Report with embedded Expense Items as shown in the above video.
Sometimes, a workflow is overkill. With Lightning Forms, you can build a series of actions such as Save Form, Send Email, Set Form Field Value, Add List Item, and Close Form. These actions can be configured against the Forms load event, floating buttons or command bar buttons. If needed, you can also call a Power Automate Flow with our custom actions.
Within Microsoft InfoPath, you may have used repeating tables. With Lightning Tools, you can achieve the same results with our sublists. You can embed another list within your site, onto the form of another list. An example is an Expense Report with embedded Expense Items as shown in the above video.
The Premium Document Generator Action enables users to transfer information from the SharePoint list form to a Microsoft Word Document so that the document can be saved as PDF or DOCx, Printed, or Shared with non-SharePoint contacts.
Lightning Forms Customer Reviews
“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.”