November 2006 - Posts
Last week, we posted an article on techniques around debugging browser forms. We received a few questions around the recommended way to find the right w3wp.exe process to attach to - this article aims to help. Non-production Server (where you can do anything
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Have you ever tried to programmatically set a value on a field only to get a “schema validation” error? Many times, this error is caused by the “nillable” attribute being present on the node. The nillable attribute is a special attribute that can appear
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Sometimes you want the default value of a field to be dependent upon a condition. However, there isn’t any direct functionality to support IF statements in the default values of fields. Substituting a rule for a default value only gets you so far, as
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Debugging InfoPath forms in the client environment is relatively simple: set a breakpoint, press F5 and execute the process that will cause the breakpoint to be hit. However, debugging InfoPath forms that are opened in the browser requires some additional
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Microsoft Office SharePoint workflow can be described as a series of tasks implemented with specific business needs to help people manage their project tasks. In Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007, we provide the workflows user experience for InfoPath forms.
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I’ve been blogging quite a bit about the brave new world of data connection libraries and UDC files. A data connection library is the recommended way to expose data connections for use in enterprise InfoPath forms. Users can easily select an appropriate
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Shoutout to InfoPathDev.com - several of our product team alums are hosting an excellent resource for the InfoPath developer community. Lots of great content there: sample form templates , very lively forums , and walkthroughs . My personal favorites:
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One of the major bets we continue to work on delivering is the notion of integrated innovation. Across Office, we have applications that are great at certain tasks and one of our jobs is to try and bring those great technologies together to make a fantastic
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When entering phone numbers in InfoPath, you can validate that it is a phone number easily enough (Data Validation->field1 “matches pattern” Phone number), but what do you do if the input does not match that pattern? Asking users to exactly enter the
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Shoutout to Kristof De Causemaeker - his blog has interesting articles on both InfoPath and SharePoint; couple particularly cool posts: 1) Great walkthrough on template parts, new InfoPath 2007 feature that allows you to modularize components of your
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Have you ever needed to develop an InfoPath form template that submits back to a SharePoint document library but you did not initially know the server or library name when developing the form? Or have a scenario where your InfoPath form template could
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The Document Information Panel is a Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 form that is hosted and displayed in a Microsoft Office Word 2007, Microsoft Office Excel 2007 or Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 document. It enables users to view and edit properties
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I found two more cool InfoPath resources. Shoutout to Christopher White, who has a couple code-intensive InfoPath-SharePoint articles in his blog . Particularly interesting: 1) Walkthrough on setting up a pretty complex workflow using InfoPath and Office
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We often see issues when people move forms and templates from one location to another. In fact, the linked nature of InfoPath forms and templates is probably one of the hardest aspects of InfoPath to understand. While the complexities can sometimes seem
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