Solution Studio

Build the entire solution with a single tool

Every solution typically consists of three parts, the user interface, business logic, and data storage. Solution Studio is designed to let you build the whole thing from one solution design environment. You can design lists, libraries, forms, sets of actions, pages, styling, images, and more — without moving from product to product.

In particular, we've noticed most tools for SharePoint assume you already built and configured all of your lists and libraries. Well, skybow thinks that's an essential part of any solution -- so we take lists and libraries very seriously.

The starting point of most skybow solutions is a dossier, or case file. So you can open one form and see everything about a given item across multiple lists and libraries. It's really a set of interdependent SharePoint lists and libraries that form one or more master-detail relationships. When you combine it with data aggregation and/or metadata inheritance, you can make the data automatically do work you used to have to hard-code into forms or workflows.

You don't have to start from scratch, and you can make your work reusable by others

We provide several templates to get you started, and you can create more. Anything designed using Solution Studio can be turned into a template. Sharing templates is easy.

What's it like to build something with skybow Solution Studio?

If you can create a SharePoint list and/or add Web Parts to a SharePoint page, you'll find Solution Studio quick and easy. The process often goes something like this:

• Design your schema. These can be standalone lists/libraries and/or something we call a dossier. A dossier is a set of SharePoint lists/libraries linked together to behave like a database. You can view a master list item and all related detail items like one complete case file. We do the linking for you.
• Build your forms. We'll actually help build them for you, including tabbed pages and master/detail lists. But you can take them much further from there.
• Build your actions. These can be links on a page, buttons on a form, or scheduled actions. They can trigger a whole set of instructions that take place as a set.
• Add extra functionality. Would you like totals to be calculated automatically? To generate a Word document containing all the content in a case file? To have custom pages, images, or Quick Launch links? You can do that, too.
• Add any assets. This can include images, pages, list item content, library documents, navigation links, style and theme configurations, and more.
• Package together a release.
• Deploy that release package to your test or production environment using one of several available methods, the easiest of which is little more than one click.

Rich Forms to create simple user interfaces

skybow Rich Forms is an integral part of skybow Solution Studio, and provides an easy-to-use, yet powerful editor to customize list forms. Building forms in SharePoint Online that look great and fulfill all your requirements of your forms has never been easier!

Key features:

• Deploy easily
• Place form fields freely
• Group vertically, horizontally or in tabs
• Edit sub items in a grid
• Cascading Lookups
• Design forms per Content Type separately
• Handle complex business logic

List View Search to filter large lists

skybow List View Search is an integral part of skybow Solution Studio, which enables users to easily find information in lists. Add skybow List View Search above any list or library view to provide useful search inputs. You can easily configure the underlying query, the columns to search in and the comparison to use.

Key features:

• Applicable for list views on any page, view or form
• Accessible dropdown of actual list columns to quickly add new filters
• Drag & drop functionality for reordering search inputs
• An easy query builder to configure more complex queries
• Supporting all standard columns incl. Managed Metadata

Metadata Inheritance to optimize search results

Optimize the search result and refinement possibilities of SharePoint by inheriting metadata to related documents and items from its superordinate element.

Key features:

• To be used in a dossier (master-detail relation)
• Configurable on standard columns of a detail list
• Retrieve values from a connected master list item’s column
• Use inherited data to improve search results
• Automatic recalculation on changes in master list
• Asynchronous background calculation

Document Generation to create documents with SharePoint metadata

Generate documents based on standard Microsoft Word files filled with SharePoint list data by just one click.

Key features:

• Print your content nicely formatted
• Loop functionality for (sub)list
• Generate an inventory of a complete list
• Based on a standard MS Word file
• Use powerful placeholder to fill with SharePoint list data
• Final document can be downloaded or directly stored in a SharePoint library