Lightning Tools Lightning Conductor

1) We have an information architecture whereby Fire Stations and other departments such as Finance and HR have individual SharePoint team sites and yet need to collaborate on SharePoint Lists that lie outside of their individual team sites. Rather than expect all users to navigate to the master SharePoint List (in a new tab) and navigate to information relevant to their department via a user driven filter or pre-defined views via the Ellipses (which is hard to train and for non educated/casual users), we instead create a SharePoint page on their respective team sites and use Lightning Tools Lightening Conductor to re-create a SharePoint List view bespoke to their department or Fire Station via Lightning Tools. This provides the user with a fluid experience of interacting with a 'master list' without leaving their site and retains the look/feel/navigation of their site. 2) We also use it to show 'alerts' on home pages of SharePoint sites to newly created content on SharePoint List based on the conditions and formatting capabilities of Lighting tools. An example would be that if a new item was added to a SharePoint list to say a Crewing Department was Active, then this alert would show up as Green on the relevant site's homepage, if not the alert would show up in Red with text saying 'Offline' . We also roll up SP Calanders to display a view of all meetings 'Today' which is displayed on a TV screen in our reception Area.

Our company uses SharePoint to store controlled documents, and one of my responsibilities is the management of our document control/document review process. We have 70+ plants, each with its own website, as well as shared services divisions. Using the Lightning Conductor to aggregate documents across SharePoint sites and libraries has been a game-changer for us. I was able to set up views that show each document owner all their documents and those that are due for review, as well as to set up Controlled Document Registers for all the plants. Using the Lightning Conductor, the registers automatically update as documents are added or removed from our system, and the Plant Managers & Quality Managers can easily see who on their team has documents due for review, so they manage the process. As the overall owner of the system, I can more easily manage our document control process across plants. Processes that used to take days, now take hours, and those that once took hours, now take minutes. As I said, game changer!

Technical support is included in our subscription.

After 3 years of functioning fine, some of our Lightning Conductor views started throwing back errors. The support team worked with me to troubleshoot, and when screenshots and recordings didn't offer them enough information, we scheduled a troubleshooting call. The problem was solved within 30 minutes on the call. Very quick response and knowledgeable, efficient troubleshooting.

Lightning Conductor has become an integral part of many systems we've built on the SharePoint platform, allowing us to roll up content in ways SharePoint simply can't. A fantastic tool that we will definitely continue using for many years to come!

I was just about managing to create as view in my document library but it meant that I was the only one who could create views and it took me forever to create each view as it came along. With this tool I am able to very quickly create the view I need and can also let others self-serve. The tool I am sure will continue to benefit us in many ways.