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Ultimate Forms automates SharePoint business processes through actions: small, configured units of work that run when items change, on a schedule, or at the click of a button. There are action types for updating and creating data, sending communications, managing permissions, calling external systems, and printing documents. Each is configured in...

Introduction In modern business processes, knowing when to act is just as important as what to do. Many automation scenarios require detecting not just a value, but a change in value. For example, “Status changed from ‘Pending’ to ‘Approved’”, or “Budget increased beyond $100,000”. In the world of forms and workflow automation, this kind of...

Manual actions in Ultimate Forms can decide for themselves who sees their buttons, and when. Visibility rules on the Run Action feature show or hide each action's execution button in the SharePoint command bar based on the current user or group, on conditions over the item's values, or both, so a Complete Project button simply is not there once...

Cognito Forms and Ultimate Forms both answer the question hosted form builders taught everyone to ask: can a form calculate, branch, repeat, and validate without code? The difference is everything around the answer. Cognito runs forms in its own cloud, metered by entries per month and seats per plan, with submissions that reach your other systems...

This is a working session, not an overview. By the end of it you will have a complete expense approval system running in SharePoint: a validated submission form, an Approval control routing to the manager and, above a threshold, to finance, notifications and reminders running themselves, and a dashboard showing the queue. Every step is...

Organizations running Microsoft 365 often end up with two form systems: SharePoint for internal work, and Jotform for anything public, applications, registrations, customer requests. The Jotform alternative that removes the second system is Ultimate Forms: its external public forms run without any sign-in, carry your branding, work from a QR code,...

If you came to Power Apps to customize SharePoint forms and found yourself learning a development platform instead, the alternative is Ultimate Forms: a third-party, no-code platform that builds forms, automation, and approvals directly inside SharePoint, on both SharePoint Online and on premises, without premium licensing tiers and without handing...

Teams comparing Plumsail Forms alternatives usually want the same three things: form logic without JavaScript, automation without building Power Automate flows, and one product instead of several. Ultimate Forms is the alternative built around exactly those three. It is a third-party, no-code platform where form behavior comes from rules rather...

SharePoint Designer has no successor from Microsoft: the 2013 release was the last, the workflows it created have been retired from SharePoint Online, and the modern experience was never supported. What to use now depends on what Designer did for you. For its two real jobs, workflow automation and form customization on SharePoint data, Ultimate...

InfoPath reached the end of its road on July 14, 2026, and Ultimate Forms is its natural successor for SharePoint forms: browser-based design instead of a client application, data stored as real SharePoint items instead of XML, all column types supported, and permissions, validation, automation, and printing built in. This comparison walks the two...

As a SharePoint consultant, I usually get few queries on what is the best form designing options in SharePoint on premise or SharePoint online. After Microsoft declared there will be no new version of InfoPath will come in future, lots of people are asking what are the alternative options of InfoPath?   Replacing SharePoint Designer too? See...

For SharePoint teams evaluating a Nintex alternative, Ultimate Forms is the closest like-for-like replacement: a third-party, no-code platform covering forms, automation, approvals, alerts, and document generation, built directly inside SharePoint Online and on premises. The differences that decide the comparison are architectural: where each...

Every form built in Ultimate Forms is mobile-ready by default: desktop layouts collapse automatically to a clean single column on phones, QR codes open any form with one scan, and public forms work without a SharePoint login. No separate mobile version, no Power Apps, no code. Mobile-First SharePoint Forms: Designing for How People Actually...

The Power Platform and Ultimate Forms solve the same problem from opposite directions. Microsoft gives you three products, Power Apps for forms and screens, Power Automate for workflows, Power BI for reporting. Each with its own designer, skill set, and licensing, assembled into a solution by whoever can operate all three. Ultimate Forms is a...

A complete multi-stage approval process can be built in SharePoint in about ten minutes. And the surprising part is where the process lives: in the form itself. Ultimate Forms turns tabs into stages and permission rules into transitions, so a submission moves from department to department with each finished stage locking behind it, no workflow...

Ultimate Forms looks and works the same in SharePoint Online and in SharePoint on premises. The same Form Designer, the same Actions and Alerts, the same configuration screens, the same implementation steps, in both environments. That sounds like a small fact, and it is anything but. In a market where every alternative forces you to choose an...