This is not a vision. It’s happening now.
skybow AG is transforming skybow Studio into the AI Builder for SharePoint — and it fundamentally changes how SharePoint solutions are created.
This is more than a feature update. It’s a shift in how digital solutions are built.
What does that mean in practice? How does AI move from being a buzzword to becoming a real productivity engine inside your development environment?
The answer lies in two core areas that every SharePoint builder knows and often struggles with: logic and data queries.
With AI-powered Expression Building and AI-generated CAML queries, skybow is removing the last technical barriers between an idea and a working solution.
The Expression Builder: From Technical Logic to Natural Language
The Expression Builder has always been one of the most powerful components inside skybow Studio. The Expression Builder helps make solutions more powerful, easier to use and more customisable in almost all areas of skybow Studio.
What exactly can Expression Builder do?
It is used wherever logic is needed, for example:
- Field calculations
- Automation Actions
- Initial values in SharePoint forms
- Input validation with custom error messages
- Controlling visibility and enablement of buttons, fields, or entire sections
- Dynamic text generation in forms, Teams messages, or emails
Until now, skybow users configured expressions by combining functions, operators, and field names from a list. While low-code, it still required understanding of the expression structure, all the available functions to choose the correct one and logical composition. Therefore you needed technical thinking.
Now you just explain what you want.
With the new AI integration, users enter their requirement in natural language into the skybow AI Chat:
Instead of
you just ask the AI:
“I want to show this button to the manager selected on the request form during the ‘Verifying line manager‘-phase in the process.”
The AI instantly generates the correct expression. You can insert it directly where it’s needed. You’re able to test it immediately within the development environment to refine or optimize it together with the AI if needed.
There is no need to deeply understand the structure, syntax, or functions of the expression language. Yet you can still build highly complex, powerful, and individual SharePoint logic.
The CAML Builder: No More XML Barriers
CAML (Collaborative Application Markup Language) is Microsoft’s XML-based language for querying and defining data in SharePoint.
For Building SharePoint Solutions, CAML is required when:
- Filtering lists and sublists
- Creating lookup filters
- Querying items from other lists (Get Item Action)
- Sorting results by specific criteria
Previously, skybow offered a low-code wizard to configure CAML queries. It simplified the process. But users still needed to understand the CAML structure, the needed logical filter combinations and basic XML concepts.
For many, this was still a hurdle.
With AI, CAML becomes a conversation.
Now users simply describe their requirement:
Instead of
you just ask the AI:
“I want to get all contracts matching today's Deadline Reminder. And only return running (active) contracts!”
The AI generates the complete CAML query automatically. Just like with expressions, you can insert the query at the correct configuration point and test it instantly. With the test result you have the possibility to improve or adjust it together with AI.
What once required XML knowledge now requires only clear requirements.
A New Era for SharePoint Builders
These AI capabilities don’t just make development easier.
They accelerate it.
They reduce errors.
They lower technical barriers.
They expand who can build solutions.
Citizen Developers and Power Users — even without deep IT or SharePoint expertise — can now digitize and modernize business processes with far greater speed more powerful features and functionalities.
AI does not replace you as a SharePoint builder. It empowers you.
Experience the skybow AI Features Live
Discover these skybow AI features in the session “Redefining Solution Development: AI as Your SharePoint Builder” by Sebastian Schneider (CEO skybow AG).
Check out how AI can help you build SharePoint solutions.
And this is only the beginning. More AI-powered capabilities are already in development to further support skybow builders and accelerate solution delivery.
Want to know what’s next?
Visit skybow at booth 68 at ECS and discover how AI is redefining SharePoint development right now.