Any/all SQL Server database connections that are required to properly complete InfoPath 2010 forms must be published to SharePoint Server 2010 if other users are to have access to these forms. In a video titled Store database connections in an InfoPath form to a data connection library. The intended audience for this video tutorial are […]
Converting Excel Forms into InfoPath 2010 Forms for Web Publishing with SharePoint 2010
Converting business forms created with Microsoft® Excel is well within the reach of most users of InfoPath 2010. Once converted to InfoPath 2010 forms, these business tools can be uploaded to a SharePoint 2010 Intranet or Extranet for organizational-wide usage, as required. The ability to distribute IT assets, such as custom business forms, with SharePoint […]
Use Native InfoPath 2010 Form Converters for Excel and Word Forms to Streamline Form Creation
We think that the prevalent software tools used to build forms for business procedures are two components of the Microsoft® Office suite — Excel and Word. InfoPath 2010 ships with native converters for forms built with either of these tools. These converters add to the value of forms production systems built around InfoPath 2010 and […]
Implementing a Policy of Only Publishing to SharePoint InfoPath 2010 Forms with Administrator Approval is a Sensible Security Procedure
For enterprise IT organizations planning an implementation of InfoPath 2010 for forms development, it makes sense to design an administrator approval process. The objective of this approval process would be to ensure that only approved forms are published to SharePoint 2010. Taking this step contributes to the security of SharePoint sites, especially when computer based […]
Develop Content Types for SharePoint 2010 Enterprise with Forms Created with InfoPath 2010
MSDN defines a content type as “a reusable collection of metadata (columns), workflow, behavior, and other settings for a category of items or documents in a Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 list or document library.” Of course, metadata is a key component of highly relevant enterprise search for SharePoint. Together with taxonomy and the Term Store, […]
Learning How to Use Nested, Dependent Controls for InfoPath 2010 Forms Makes Sense
Learning how to use nested, dependent controls in InfoPath 2010 makes sense. In fact, these controls are a popular feature of lots of different types of forms. Video tutorials present an excellent method of achieving this training objective. SharePoint-Videos dot com offers a video tutorial on this subject, “Use cascading drop-downs in InfoPath to display […]
Populating InfoPath 2010 Forms with External Data for SharePoint 2010
Seamlessly populating InfoPath 2010 forms with data copied from external sources, like databases, is a popular requirement. The popularity of this approach to planning forms makes a lot of sense when one considers the amount of data that is likely already stored in databases as the result of day to day business activity of departments […]
Business Users can Quickly Add Forms to Web Pages with the InfoPath Forms Web Part which is Exclusively a Feature of SharePoint 2010
Including interactive forms within web pages on a corporate Intranet is a highly desirable feature for most departments and/or business units within organizations. Rarely will an implementation of these forms on an Intranet produce additional revenue for an organization; therefore, spending substantial amounts of money building these InfoPath 2010 forms web part pages may not […]
Publishing InfoPath 2010 Forms to SharePoint Online
We reviewed our video tutorial “Publishing InfoPath form to form library in SharePoint” for consistency with normal operation of our SharePoint Online site, which is part of our Office365 E3 Plan account. Note that opening InfoPath 2010 forms that are already stored in a SharePoint Online form library is not a very straightforward process. We […]
Using InfoPath 2010 to Customize Standard Forms for SharePoint Online Enterprise Edition Lists Encourages User Adoption
InfoPath 2010 can be used with SharePoint Online Enterprise Edition to customize core forms for creating SharePoint lists. This type of application of InfoPath 2010 makes lots of sense for organizations committed to SharePoint Online who need to hasten end user adoption of the computing platform. List forms put together with program logic that includes […]