January 2007 - Posts
SQL Server 2005, also known as Yukon, comes with greatly improved XML support . Just look at it: native XML columns - store XML blobs in your records, along with other data types. These XML columns can be typed or untyped; typed here refers to XSD typing,
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If you've ever designed and deployed a form that will be frequently used or require significant data analysis, you have probably looked into maintaining data in a SQL database . With InfoPath 2003 and the InfoPath 2007 rich client, you get what you expect.
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A few folks put together good resource compilations of everything InfoPath-related: articles, screencasts, help topics... Check them out: 1) InfoPath 2007 resources by Joris Poelmans 2) Office 2007 Spotlight: InfoPath 2007 by Michael Gannotti 3) Building
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Scenario A school department wants to create a standard digital template to use when administering tests to students. Since the template is to be a standard format across multiple classes, the department requires that teachers be able to enter questions
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With the introduction of InfoPath Forms Services for MOSS 2007, clever management of form template deployment will probably become a must for most IT departments. You'll want to be sure that form templates are not draining server resources. You'll especially
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I'd love to compile a list of blogs about InfoPath to help the developer community connect and share insights. If you wrote at least one InfoPath article in the past, and plan on writing more, please leave a link to your blog in the comments. Expect an
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Lately, we've had a lot of interest in e-mailing a custom view with InfoPath forms that are submitted via e-mail. There are a few simple tricks that will allow you to do this. Before we start, note that, in the InfoPath rich client, you have the option
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The SharePoint list data connection in InfoPath is a great declarative way to bring in data from a SharePoint list, but it does have some limitations. For those willing to put in a little extra effort, there’s much more that can be done with SharePoint
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It's Friday, and on Fridays I usually try to dig up a cool article or two from the community 1) Patrick Tisseghem wrote a beautiful walkthrough on making browser forms show up in a web part - no code required, just follow the screenshots. 2) S.Y.M. Wong-A-Ton
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What are Roles? Without going much in detail, InfoPath roles is a functionality where you can define user tags like "Sales", "Management" and utilize them in your form logic. This enables some very interesting scenarios in the forms space. For a detailed
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Template parts allow a form designer to combine view information, rules, schema, default data and other compatible components of a form template into a package that can be distributed to other form designers and inserted into form templates without manual
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MS Learning has some free Office 2007 courses. In particular, here’s a What’s New course for InfoPath . Here’s the outline: What's New in Microsoft® Office InfoPath® 2007 Converting Office Word and Office Excel Forms to Office InfoPath The Forms Converter
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Folks frequently ask whether it is possible to customize the InfoPath user interface around digital signatures. Some want to show the signature at the very bottom of the form; others want to show signatures side-by-side; others want to disable form submissions
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