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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Here’s your problem: You want to use a stored procedure in a database to access your data through InfoPath, but you don’t really want to have to write script for every query to change the stored procedure’s query parameters. We’ve all been there. Well,
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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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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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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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