March 2007 - Posts
When a custom Document Information Panel is associated with an Office document and/or template, the information needed to locate the Panel is contained in a custom XML data part stored with the document. I won’t go into the details of the way an Office
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As you know, submitting to a Microsoft Windows SharePoint form library from an InfoPath form is quite simple: just add a “submit” type of data connection to InfoPath and away you go. However, submitting to a SharePoint List is another matter. In this
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Summary This article is part of a series of documents explaining the Data concept in Microsoft Office InfoPath. This particular article is an overview of how Data Connections work in InfoPath. The intended audience is those who are new to InfoPath and
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This article applies to InfoPath 2003 and Word 2003. Summary InfoPath is great for capturing structured data. A common scenario is that you need to output that data in a Word document. It is quite easy to create an XSLT transformation that will take the
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And that's why there's all the new-and-cool documentation about how to make your InfoPath forms work well with Access: Design a form template that is based on a Microsoft Access database Add a data connection to a Microsoft Access database Submit form
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So, you’ve heard about this new InfoPath 2007 feature called template parts. You may have even found the option to design one in the Design a Form Template dialog. But what you can do with it and why you would want to bother.. well that’s just a big mystery.
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You were patient enough to read through my ramblings about why Yukon and InfoPath are a match made in heaven , and how to set up basic interop . But these two articles left you dreaming of more. Well, that was their purpose :-). Magic begins: Structure-aware
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I’m pleased to announce that InfoPath 2007 training labs are now live on MSDN . Just like with the hands-on labs for InfoPath 2003 , we created a set of exercises that walk you through a real-life scenario, introducing a new InfoPath feature in the process.
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It is now easier than ever to pre-populate your InfoPath 2007 forms with the user profile information of the current user. Background: In Microsoft SharePoint Server 2003, the UserProfileService.GetUserProfileByName (string accountName ) web service method
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The Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 setup program installs two .xml files that are designed to display programming information from the Class Library reference inline in the Code Editor and the Object Browser when working with members of the Microsoft.Office.InfoPath
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All Office InfoPath 2007 developer documentation that is published online in the MSDN Library now supports the MSDN Community Content features that enable users to comment on, edit, and add content to online documentation. We would like to encourage you
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