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In today's digital age, businesses are constantly looking for ways to improve their processes and increase efficiency. One solution to this is the integration ...

SharePoint Forms are a powerful tool for creating and managing forms within the SharePoint platform. They allow users to easily create and share forms, collect ...

skybow is a company that is dedicated to providing innovative solutions to its customers. In the past year, we have achieved several key milestones that ...

In September skybow is celebrating its 7 years. We would like to thank all our customers and partners who believed in us and supported us throughout this ...

PowerApps and Power Automate are excellent tools that provide great options to enhance efficiency and tailor a digital workspace based on Microsoft 365 to ...

In this blog post series we will talk about the modern working style and possibilities on the Microsoft 365 platform and how skybow perfectly incorporates to ...

There are many possibilities to describe what happened during the past years. We could look at the numbers and conclude that skybow started from Switzerland ...

In this blog post series we will talk about the modern working style and possibilities on the Microsoft 365 platform and how skybow perfectly incorporates to ...

In this blog post series we will talk about the modern working style and possibilities on the Microsoft 365 platform and how skybow perfectly incorporates to ...

In this blog post series we will talk about the modern working style and possibilities on the Microsoft 365 platform and how skybow perfectly incorporates to ...

This is a new blog post series where we will talk about the modern working style and possibilities on the Microsoft 365 platform and how skybow perfectly ...

Who has not heard about Microsoft Teams? Teams is everywhere and everyone is talking about it. As the Microsoft product with the highest acceptance rate this ...

skybow has with Sebastian Schneider a new Chief Executive Officer. Check out the latest talk between him and the former CEO Philip Nussbaumer.

Some years ago, the big Microsoft Office 365 boom started. You were able to see the rising of many intranet vendors that offered a great base in communication ...

Some vendors focus on Intranet and Collaboration, others have a complete Infrastructure-as-a-Service and call it a a "digital workplace". A real “digital ...

“Building business apps” was yesterday. “Selling business apps” is in trend. Here, my personal meaning about a transforming market and a chance for CSPs  in ...

The skybow Partner Day & Awards 2019 On Monday 27th of May skybow held its Partner Day for the second time since founding the company. More than 50 ...

We proudly announce our new Strategy Alliance with the German company Solutions2Share. This will open strategic discussions on every level. 

If you have used skybow before, with classic forms, you know that by using skybow each field is becoming a calculated field, that calculations, validations, ...

In the previous blog post we have seen that skybow has gone fully modern with skybow Solution Studio. In this blog post, we will see what the capabilities of ...

Custom forms and logic on modern SharePoint? There was one thing that was holding lot of organizations back on classic SharePoint: customizations! There were ...

Effretikon, 26 March 2019 - The contracts were signed in February, which means the partnership between skybow and IT system integrator Axians, which pursues as ...

It occurs to me that, when people first use Solution Studio, it takes a short while to figure out a few things. Once you have, Solution Studio becomes ...

The 3 Pillar of a successful workspace: Intranet, Collaboration, and Business Apps Adis Jugo (skybow Director of Product Technology and Microsoft MVP) and our ...

One of the major requirements nowadays is that business apps are not only functional, but that they should look good, and be available on all different range ...

I’ve been at skybow for four months at the time of this writing, and I want to pass on a few observations while I still have a fresh perspective – starting ...

The dirty little secret about InfoPath is that it’s still in widespread use. While sometimes it’s due to simple inertia or low budgets, at least as often the ...

Much of SharePoint’s popularity has stemmed from its flexibility. A single farm (or online tenancy) can deliver corporate intranets, document collaboration ...

We’re thrilled to announce that Mike Fitzmaurice has assumed the role of our Chief Technology Officer. He’ll be responsible for leadership and bridges between ...

SharePoint Designer is in the phaseout stage, what is replacing it? Three years ago, Microsoft has announced that there will be no new version of SharePoint ...

Easily Build Business Apps for SharePoint and Office 365. A webinar with actual answers to questions like: In this webinar we demonstrated our Solution Studio, ...

Migrating from Lotus Notes and Domino to Office 365: How to Overcome the "Apps" Issue. The reasons to move away from Lotus/IBM Notes and Domino should be ...

Office 365 is a powerful platform but many organizations struggle when it comes to maximizing the business value of Office 365. The main purpose of the ...

Getting out of the legacy trap: InfoPath, Access Services, Lotus Notes & Co. A webinar with actual answers to questions like: How to replace InfoPath and ...

Creating multicolumn form layouts in SharePoint list forms The last skybow Advent Cookie for 2017 is an evergreen: creating multicolumn form layouts with ...

Working with field labels in SharePoint Forms It is not always practical to have field labels in SharePoint Forms tied to their corresponding controls and ...

Performing operations on form load with SharePoint display, new and edit forms Very often, there is a need to perform an operation on form load when opening a ...

Creating cascading lookups in SharePoint A classic in today’s skybow Advent Calendar: creating cascading lookups with SharePoint and SharePoint Online. While ...

Perform an action before saving an item in SharePoint Today’s skybow Advent Calendar cookie comes from user’s question in our Forum: how can a custom action be ...

Working with User Profile Properties in SharePoint Online After a somewhat more complicated read in yesterday’s skybow Advent Cookie, today a simple one, but a ...

Running custom JavaScript in your SharePoint With all the goodies and features that SharePoint offers, still we sometimes just don’t get around of writing some ...

Displaying dialogs and messages in SharePoint One of the basics of user interaction is displaying dialogs and messages. In today’s skybow Advent Calendar ...

Cross-site lookup columns in SharePoint Online In today’s skybow Advent Calendar cookie, we are solving one of the most required features in SharePoint: ...

Advanced validation in SharePoint list forms Validation in list forms is again one of the evergreens for SharePoint professional developers and solution ...

Setting default and initial field values in SharePoint forms In today’s skybow Advent Calendar, again one of the classics: prepopulating values in SharePoint ...

Turn any SharePoint field into a calculated field Capabilities and limitations of the standard SharePoint calculated fields are well known, and all SharePoint ...

Showing dynamic, context specific information in SharePoint forms Another SharePoint requirements classic in today’s skybow Advent Calendar cookie: showing ...

Creating KPIs in SharePoint Lists Now, here is an evergreen, a holy grail of all SharePoint requirements in today’s skybow Advent Calendar: KPIs. They can be ...

Creating and modifying SharePoint fields in skybow Solution Studio Changing the view fields in SharePoint is a somewhat cumbersome process, you need to go to ...

Hiding a ribbon in SharePoint page, view or form A quick one – but a classical one – for the 9th cookie in this year’s skybow Advent Calendar: how do I hide a ...

Dynamic and user-specific forms in SharePoint Creating a user-specific, content-specific or situation-specific SharePoint form has always been a struggle. Both ...

Master-Detail relations in SharePoint Forms Today a simple, but important skybow Advent cookie: master-detail relations. Everybody knows this struggle with ...

Timer Jobs in SharePoint Online with skybow Solution Studio Timer Jobs in SharePoint Server? Each developer knows how to deal with that. But in SharePoint ...

Data Aggregation in SharePoint: Running totals across the lists Here is another one from the from the eternal “how do I” SharePoint questions: the data ...

Generating reports from SharePoint data Creating reports of SharePoint data has always been somewhat difficult. We have been trying different approaches during ...

Sending Emails Hey, how do I send an email from SharePoint? That might be one of the most asked questions ever in the SharePoint world, and it is the subject ...

List navigation and data filtering: fighting the SharePoint’s 5000 list items limit Everyone who was working with long SharePoint lists, knows the about List ...

Top-down metadata inheritance for SharePoint items and files Very often there is a situation where you need to enrich the large number of files of list items ...

SharePoint Survey 2017: Workflows and Business Processes Since 2014 Prof Arno Hitzges and Wolfgang Miedl have published 3 SharePoint surveys about the usage of ...

Intranet with Business Apps (Valo & skybow) SharePoint is probably the most popular intranet platform in the world, but the great paradox is that there is ...

The Changing Role of the Citizen Developer and Client Side Development in "Modern" Office 365 – skybow to the Rescue? Two SharePoint developers and Microsoft ...

What is background processing in the context of SharePoint Online? While a lot of actions and tasks in an application take place within the application user ...

How skybow Solution Studio can simplify your ALM Process Every software solution goes through well-known, long-established lifecycle stages. Of course, this is ...

red KG does Market-oriented concepts, transparent financial simulations and valuable rental contracts for sustainable success of hotels and mixed-use real ...

We are more than happy to announce the technology alliance between skybow and Lightning Tools.  Lightning Tools is a leading global provider of Microsoft ...

Every software solution goes through well-known, long-established lifecycle stages. Of course, this is also the case with the business solutions built on top ...

In the last two years Microsoft’s “cloud first” mantra has come to fruition, delivering the promise of Software as a Service with cloud offerings such as Azure ...

1. InfoPath is a dead technology Microsoft has announced that it will not develop InfoPath any further. It will extend support for current InfoPath products to ...

Effretikon, 16th May 2017 – skybow signed a partnership agreement with IT service provider Advantive. Advantive is a Microsoft specialist who develops ...

You are working with SharePoint whether On Premises or Online but you are not satisfied with the default look and feel? This Blog post including the related ...

Business solutions are one of the major use cases for SharePoint. We all know this “Get me the leave-request solution in SharePoint” requirement, and, it was a ...

The skybow webinar from March 23th was about building real-life, advanced SharePoint solutions, in matter of hours. We will specifically go through: a ...

Take a look into the record of our webinar and get to know: important requirements for no-code/low-code solution platforms which UI components (forms) and BPM ...

In the first three chapters I introduced you into the development of a "Request for leave" solution and began to show you how it can be easily migrated from ...

In the first two chapters I introduced you into the development of a "Request for leave" solution and began to show you how it can be easily migrated from ...

Modern business apps for SharePoint Online have to be client-side, quickly adapted to business changes, hybrid-enabled, able to fully interact with SharePoint ...

Microsoft has presented a new way for creating mobile and responsive user interfaces – PowerApps and Flow. Data-bound mobile apps, connectivity to SharePoint, ...

Data Modelling: Data structuring in SharePoint works in a similar manner to Lotus Notes: through lists and document libraries, which can be connected through ...

A lot of enterprises are facing the challenge of phasing out legacy Lotus Notes installations. The first choice in that replacement, and the most recommended ...

2016 Prof. Dr. Arno Hitzges and Prof. Dr. Thorsten Riemker-Gurki published a new survey concerning the use of SharePoint in companies in Germany. Hitzges and ...

You are working with SharePoint whether On Premises or Online but you are not satisfied with the default look and feel? This Blog post including the related ...

Thanks everyone who has joined our Webinar about replacing InfoPath with skybow Rich Forms on 20.10.2016. skybow Rich Forms is arguably the only product on the ...

Join us on a journey that started one year ago. A year full of awesome changes and cool achievements. We are proud and celebrate that skybow is a well-known ...

In the last step, we set the SharePoint field “Subindustry” to be invisible all the time (we set its “Visible expression” to “false”).

For now, all of the fields on the “Add new” and “Edit” SharePoint list forms are enabled and visible. But, the requirement was that the “Position” and ...

On Monday, 29 July 2016, Microsoft announced that it would be withdrawing support for code-based sandbox solutions in SharePoint Online and Office 365. New ...

The first requirement was to make it possible to add and choose new values for fields “Industry” and “Subindustry”, directly from the “Leads” form. That ...

A few days ago, while running a training program for a partner company, we came up with a requirement for dynamically setting SharePoint field values in the ...

The long term users of Ardevia Rich Forms might have noticed that this popular SharePoint AddIn is not anymore available in the Microsoft Office Store. This is ...

Our Matt and Adis have delivered an online webinar about skybow Rich Forms on July 13th, and we have received some great feedback and a bunch of good questions ...

Today marks the moment, where we can officially say that we are ready for SharePoint 2016. From now on SP 2016 is part of our official release cycle.

skybow was founded in September in 2015 with 7 employees. 10 months later the number of people has doubled twice and is currently at 28. skybow delivers the ...

Building a business solution with the out-of-the-box functionalities is challenging. Dynamic data input masks are often an important criterion for user ...

If you are familiar with SharePoint, you defnietly know the problem. Moving documents is horrific and the general overview is not logical. Our former solution ...

Matthias explains our skybow solution accelerator "Send Email Action" in this tutorial. Emails can be send with any SharePoint content. Possibilities of ...