February 2007 - Posts
We have seen a number of requests on how to allow a user to enter (or select) a person’s name or logon alias and then validate that user against their Active Directory without using code. This has been especially true in workflow scenarios where User
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This blog article discusses a new feature of Microsoft InfoPath 2007 that makes it possible to pass data into an InfoPath form at load time. A typical example would be retrieving records from a database for a particular user. At load time a ‘userID’ can
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Our colleagues at Office Online released several interesting InfoPath topics: Form Data Aggregation and Merging: - Design a form for merging - Merge actions for fields and groups - Merge InfoPath e-mail form data in Outlook Document Information Panel:
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UPDATE: Due to the number of requests for adding more columns to this sample, I have re-designed the sample. If I have time in the future I will update the steps to create this new design; however, for now you can download the updated design here to see
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Similar to performing elapsed time calculations, creating a new date or time value based on a previous value used to require code – not anymore! With InfoPath 2007 you can use the new “ addDays() ” and “ addSeconds() ” functions to calculate a new date
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If you’re reading this blog, you’re probably passionate about InfoPath. You built several InfoPath applications, and think the technology has lots of potential. But you also realize that InfoPath is still a fairly new product, so there’s a lot to be done
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These articles will help you answer many of the questions you might have about Forms Services browser compatibility, rich-client only features, and the Design Checker. Title Details Audience Plan browser support (OSS) Describes the different levels of
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We often get questions asking if the XmlFormView control can be used in a particular environment. Usually you will use it on a regular page that belongs to a WSS Site or on a page in _layouts folder of a WSS site. These scenarios are supported and covered
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Some time ago, we blogged about the reasons why you'd use UDC files and the anatomy of UDC files . You may be wondering, however, if it's possible to author these files in InfoPath - after all, UDC files are just XML files. You're right - this is definitely
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We promised , and here it is: the OPML compilation of RSS feeds of bloggers that write about InfoPath. Just download the file and import it into your favorite news aggregator. Sneak peek: Cheers! Alex
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The InfoPath hosted control gives developers of third party hosted applications the ability to respond to events in the form. The InfoPath event manager provides this functionality. Through the event manager a host application can respond to 5 form events,
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Is this blog useful for you? Which articles are most useful? One very important way you can tell us is by rating the content that we publish: just use the little "star" control next to the title, in the detail view for each article - This will help us
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In a recent post , I touched upon the reasons why you might want to go with SQL Server XML columns as the storage for your InfoPath forms. In this article, we'll talk about actually making it work. InfoPath's strength is working with XML data sources:
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Some new MSDN resources to check out: 1) Microsoft Office Forms Server 2007 SDK 2) InfoPath Developer Reference for Managed Code Alex
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