October 2006 - Posts
OK, we’ve talked about super-fantastic high end authentication scenarios. We’ve talked about cross-domain security and administrative control. We’ve talked about generating UDC files using InfoPath and consuming them again in the designer. Now let’s drill
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I've been on a hunt for cool InfoPath-related blogs; well, I just found a gem. Shoutout to Liam Cleary whose blog talks about SharePoint, VSTO, Groove, and, of course, lots and lots of InfoPath. I loved all the screenshots and detailed walkthroughs. Some
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How do you test more than 5 parameters? How do you group parameters? One answer to both questions, is to have multiple validations in one statement. We'll look into these problems in detail in the case studies below. Case Study #1 Problem : a form designer
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If you’re a server administrator for Microsoft Office InfoPath Forms Services 2007, there may be a time when you’re tried to perform some action on a form template and received an error message that looks like the following: “Form template was deployed
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Many of you saw a detailed MSDN article on embedding an InfoPath XmlFormView control into a custom ASP.NET page. But - there's more to it. I came across an interesting blog post that talks about embedding a browser-based InfoPath form into a webpart.
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Our friends from the Internet Explorer team are celebrating a major milestone - the release of Internet Explorer 7. You all know about the great features it brings to browser users (security, performance, ease of use); you may have seen them first-hand
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In InfoPath 2003, forms were equipped to merge in a simple manner: repeating sections and tables would merge to form one, as would the contents of lists or rich text controls. The remainder of the form was not merged. This functionality proved useful
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With InfoPath Forms Services, you can take powerful InfoPath forms, and allow users to fill them out by using a browser. This enables your forms to reach more customers than ever before. Many Office users have been enjoying the convenience of spell check
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I just came across two great InfoPath resources: A series of articles by Christopher Domino (12 detailed articles so far!). Christopher's articles look deeply into many InfoPath aspects, from "declarative logic vs code", deployment approaches, and backend
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If you are building an InfoPath client-only solution and you need to filter drop-down list boxes, you can simply use the “ Filter Data ” feature when you set the Entries property for the control. However, since filters are not supported in browser-compatible
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When building a workflow solution using InfoPath, it is often necessary to enforce data validation for some, but not all users. For example, in a simple expense report workflow, Employee->Manager->Accounting, the manager may be required to specify
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Where do UDC files come from? - I knew you’d ask. (For those of you who are wondering what a UDC file is, you should go read my post entitled " Making data connections work in browser forms .") There are a couple of ways to go about it. UDC files are
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A while back, I wrote a series of 3 blog posts about authentication that was targeted at advanced enterprise-level scenarios involving multi-tier delegation of credentials for data connections on the server. However, I never took the time to cover the
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