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May 2006 - Posts

Goodbye WhoAmI! Hello userName()
Anyone who's tried to get the username of the person filling out their form in InfoPath 2003 knows the WhoAmI web service . That was the only way to get the username without writing Visual Basic or C# managed code and using System.Environment.UserName Read More...
Use Visual Studio to create InfoPath forms… without code
Although the primary purpose of Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office (InfoPath 2007 Support) is to add C# and Visual Basic code to your InfoPath form template, you can still take advantage of hosting InfoPath inside Visual Studio to design forms that don't Read More...
Download the Beta!
I'm super excited to announce Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 Beta and Microsoft Office Forms Server 2007 Beta for browser-enabled forms , so you can install both of them today . After registering you'll get to select which products you want, which should Read More...
Cool video on InfoPath in Outlook
As part of getting everyone up to speed on Office 2007, and in preparation for the imminent release of the Beta, we've just posted some "Partner technical readiness training" videos. It includes a great one on using InfoPath in Outlook, so I thought I'd Read More...
Best Practices for Rules
My forms have a bad habit of accumulating more and more rules as I add more and more functionality over time, so I came up with a set of guidelines to keep those rules clean and orderly. Remember that there are four places to add rules On Button Click Read More...
Auto height for sections
InfoPath forms are all about being dynamic, so it's important that the sections in your form grow and shrink appropriately. For example, if someone deletes an optional section from inside another section, the outer section should shrink accordingly. Of Read More...
Moving fields in the data source
As most folks figure out quickly, InfoPath doesn't support drag-and-drop of fields in the data source. There are a lot of technical reasons for this, and even a usability concern that people won't realize they can drag fields onto the form as controls Read More...
Tabs
In my last post I covered how to make Wizard-like forms . This time I want to talk about another common practice for organizing all the fields in a form: grouping each set of fields onto a "tab" so the user can switch between the sets in whichever order Read More...
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