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Template Parts 101

Posted Wednesday, March 14, 2007 6:42 AM by infopath
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. Read More...
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Data Connections in Template Parts

Posted Monday, January 08, 2007 7:23 AM by infopath
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 Read More...
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Workflow user experience in InfoPath

Posted Wednesday, November 22, 2006 7:08 AM by infopath
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. Read More...
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Integrated Innovation: Access Data Collection

Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 6:53 AM by infopath
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 Read More...
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Interesting InfoPath/SharePoint Blog

Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 10:47 AM by infopath
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 Read More...
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Data binding between Document Information Panel and Word document

Posted Monday, November 06, 2006 6:39 AM by infopath
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 Read More...
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Aggregation: and many became one...

Posted Thursday, October 19, 2006 9:04 AM by infopath
In InfoPath 2003, forms were equipped to merge in a simple manner: repeating sections and tables would merge to form one, as would the contents of lists or rich text controls. The remainder of the form was not merged. This functionality proved useful Read More...
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Protecting Sensitive Data

Posted Thursday, September 28, 2006 6:40 PM by infopath
Frequently, we find developers using InfoPath as a platform for developing solutions that manipulate sensitive data, may it be financial data, patient records, or performance review forms. This article shares tips on protecting such data. First and foremost, Read More...
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Publish faster to even more places with InfoPath 2007

Posted Friday, June 30, 2006 9:53 AM by infopath
When designing a form template, publish is an important step to make the form available for end users of the form. In InfoPath 2007, we have made some modifications and improvements to the publish process. This article is intended to highlight some of Read More...
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Getting the XPath without straining your brain

Posted Wednesday, June 07, 2006 2:39 PM by infopath
Yesterday I talked about using System.Xml in the new object model . My code examples included a key part of the InfoPath programming model: looking up fields in the data source using XPath so that you can set and get values. Unfortunately, figuring out Read More...
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Use Visual Studio to create InfoPath forms… without code

Posted Wednesday, May 24, 2006 3:45 PM by infopath
Although the primary purpose of Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office (InfoPath 2007 Support) is to add C# and Visual Basic code to your InfoPath form template, you can still take advantage of hosting InfoPath inside Visual Studio to design forms that don't Read More...
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Best Practices for Rules

Posted Wednesday, May 17, 2006 9:06 AM by infopath
My forms have a bad habit of accumulating more and more rules as I add more and more functionality over time, so I came up with a set of guidelines to keep those rules clean and orderly. Remember that there are four places to add rules On Button Click Read More...
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Moving fields in the data source

Posted Thursday, May 04, 2006 9:22 AM by infopath
As most folks figure out quickly, InfoPath doesn't support drag-and-drop of fields in the data source. There are a lot of technical reasons for this, and even a usability concern that people won't realize they can drag fields onto the form as controls Read More...
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