Form Migrator: Migrate InfoPath to Power Apps, Lightning Forms, and SharePoint
InfoPath is reaching the end of its life—and if you’re still relying on InfoPath, it’s time to plan your next move. The Lightning Tools Form Migrator makes migrating your existing form solutions fast, simple, and stress-free. Whether you’re moving InfoPath to Power Apps, InfoPath to SharePoint Lists, InfoPath to Lightning Forms, or Nintex Forms to Lightning Forms, our tool handles both form design and data migration—saving you weeks of manual effort.
WHY CHOOSE LIGHTNING TOOLS FORM MIGRATOR?
The Lightning Tools Form Migrator is a robust migration tool built to help organizations move away from legacy form solutions like InfoPath, Nintex On-Premises, and PDF-based forms—and onto modern platforms such as Power Apps, Lightning Forms, Forms Studio, and SharePoint Lists.
With support for both form design and data migration, the Form Migrator ensures your forms, business logic, and user experience are preserved—so you can transition to modern tools without disruption or data loss.
Whether you’re planning an InfoPath to Power Apps migration, upgrading to Lightning Forms, or moving from Nintex On-Premises to Microsoft 365 Modern Form Solutions, our Form Migrator enables a faster, safer, and more future-proof migration process.
- InfoPath deprecation in 2026: Prepare for the upcoming InfoPath deprecation by migrating now to supported and scalable form platforms.
- Seamless Migration: Migrate form designs and data from InfoPath, Nintex, and PDF forms with minimal manual effort and reduced risk of errors.
- Increased Productivity: Upgrade to Lightning Forms or Power Apps for improved performance, streamlined user interfaces, and smarter workflows.
- Data Integrity: Preserve field values, attachments, relationships, and metadata throughout the entire migration process.
- Enhanced Features and Capabilities: Move beyond legacy limitations with advanced functionality in Lightning Forms—like cross-site lookups, conditional formatting, and automation.
The Lightning Tools Form Migrator is more than a migration tool—it’s a complete assessment and deployment platform for modernizing InfoPath and Nintex On-Premises forms across SharePoint environments.
Start by scanning your SharePoint On-Premises farm or Microsoft 365 tenant to automatically detect InfoPath forms and Form Libraries. Alternatively, you can import forms directly from the file system. The tool reads each form’s structure and logic, allowing you to analyse layout, controls, and fields before any changes are made.
Once identified, each form can be previewed within the Migrator, giving you full visibility into how it will render and behave post-migration. This allows you to test and validate before committing to a migration path.
When you’re ready to modernize, you have flexible output options:
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Power Apps Canvas Apps: Ideal for standalone, customizable apps that go beyond SharePoint.
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Power Apps List-Integrated Forms: Embed directly into SharePoint Lists for familiar, contextual experiences.
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Lightning Forms: Take advantage of a modern, responsive SharePoint-native form builder with powerful features like conditional formatting, cross-site lookups, and automation.
After the form design is generated in your chosen platform, you can then migrate the associated data—preserving field values, attachments, metadata, and relationships—ensuring a smooth transition without business disruption.
The Lightning Tools Form Migrator is delivered as a desktop application, meaning all form analysis, transformation, and data migration happen within your environment—not in the cloud.
This local-first approach gives you full control over your sensitive business data and eliminates the need to send forms or content outside your firewall. It’s designed for security-conscious organizations who want to modernize legacy forms—such as InfoPath or Nintex—without compromising on data privacy or compliance.
With its robust architecture, the Form Migrator ensures fast, reliable migrations while aligning with internal IT policies. Whether you’re migrating a single form or hundreds across your SharePoint environment, you can confidently manage the process directly from your own workstation.
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- Automated Analysis: Detects legacy forms, form libraries, and data within SharePoint for a comprehensive assessment.
- Accurate ROI Calculation: Factors in form complexity and hourly resource rates to provide an accurate estimate of your return.
- Informed Decision-Making: Offers insight into the cost-effectiveness of migration, making it easy to justify your investment.
Preview, Test, and Enhance Your Form Migrations with Lightning Tools Form Migrator
- Design Preview: Visualize the migrated form’s layout and ensure it mirrors the original legacy form before publishing.
- Pre-Migration Testing: Test the form’s functionality in SharePoint Online and Lightning Forms to confirm everything operates as expected.
- Post-Publishing Flexibility: Use Lightning Forms to make changes or enhancements to your forms after they’ve been published, ensuring they continue to meet your evolving needs.
The screenshot shows a typical InfoPath Employment Application Form, demonstrating just how complex and dynamic legacy forms can become over time. This example includes:
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Validation Rules to enforce required fields and data consistency
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Conditional Formatting to dynamically show or hide fields based on user input
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Repeating Sections for capturing multiple employment history entries
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Multiple Views tailored for different user roles or stages of the process
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File Attachments for uploading CVs, certifications, or supporting documents
These features are often deeply embedded in business processes—making manual migration risky, time-consuming, and prone to errors. That’s exactly why the Lightning Tools Form Migrator is designed to analyze and accurately replicate these elements in modern platforms like Power Apps or Lightning Forms, while also preserving the original logic and structure.
Migrated Form in Power Apps: Flexible Output Options
The image shows the Employment Application Form successfully migrated from InfoPath into a Power Apps Canvas App. As you can see, the structure, validation logic, and repeating sections have all been preserved—now rebuilt using modern Power Platform components.
With Lightning Tools Form Migrator, you’re not limited to Canvas Apps. You also have the option to migrate your InfoPath or Nintex forms into SharePoint List-Integrated Power Apps, providing a more familiar and contextual user experience directly within SharePoint Lists.
This flexibility means you can choose the best-fit approach for each form:
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Canvas Apps for standalone, highly customized applications
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List-Integrated Power Apps for embedded, list-based forms with a streamlined UI
Both migration paths support preserving your form’s functionality while modernizing the experience for today’s Microsoft 365 environment.
- Responsive Side Panel Forms: Lightning Forms provides a modern, user-friendly side panel form interface that works across all devices.
- Seamless Feature Migration: Repeating tables, validation rules, data, and logic are carried over, preserving the integrity of your legacy forms.
- Advanced Customization: Leverage Lightning Forms to enhance your forms with styling, actions, calculations, cross-site lookup columns, and additional features tailored to your needs.
Modern SharePoint-Integrated Power App
After migration, your InfoPath or Nintex form can be transformed into a modern SharePoint-integrated Power App—seamlessly embedded within the associated SharePoint list. This provides users with a familiar, list-driven experience while benefiting from the enhanced functionality of Power Apps.
The integrated form supports:
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Modern responsive design
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Field-level validation and business logic
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Conditional visibility and formatting
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Mobile access via SharePoint and Teams
By keeping the form tied to its list, you preserve user context and simplify adoption—making it an ideal solution for forms that are part of existing SharePoint-based workflows.
Migrating form design is only half the challenge—the Lightning Tools Form Migrator also ensures that your form data is safely transferred and accessible in the future.
For forms stored in SharePoint Form Libraries, the underlying data is typically stored as XML. After InfoPath reaches end of life in 2026, many organizations may find themselves unable to open or interpret this XML content—posing a serious compliance and continuity risk.
To mitigate this, the Form Migrator allows you to:
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Migrate InfoPath form data into modern SharePoint lists, maintaining structure, relationships, and metadata
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Preserve file attachments and repeating data, even when nested within complex form structures
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Export completed forms to PDF if editing is no longer required, ensuring long-term accessibility and auditability for regulatory or archival purposes
This means you can modernize interactive forms and create secure, view-only records of historical submissions—keeping you covered from both a business and compliance standpoint.