InfoPath 2010 is the preferred method of building electronic forms in a SharePoint Server 2010 computing environment. This tool set includes an extensive set of point and click functionality, including a rich set of controls. These controls can be inserted within custom forms for a wide range of purposes, all the way from permitting text […]
Train Business Users to Build Workflows with a Combination of InfoPath and SharePoint Designer 2010
Business users looking for simple methods to build processes to deliver targeted data should be trained to use SharePoint Designer 2010 and InfoPath 2010 to build workflows. Of course these users should have the technical understanding required to safely use these tools. In a video tutorial titled Create a Site Workflow and Modify its Form […]
Automating Forms Production With InfoPath 2010 and SharePoint 2010 will Deliver Lots of Value for Communities of Users
Rehmani Consulting, Inc. offers a comprehensive set of video training courses on InfoPath 2010. This training course provides the user with most, if not all of the techniques required to build a regular production system for business forms and, necessarily, some of the data required for business intelligence gathering. We think it makes a lot […]
Using Big Data Tools on AMI Smart Meter Data Should Include SharePoint
Rehmani Consulting, Inc offers comprehensive training for users of SharePoint 2010 on InfoPath 2010. Our InfoPath 2010: Design Electronic SharePoint Forms can be of great value as public utilities here in the United States begin to address the Big Data produced by automated meter infrastructure and related smart devices. As noted in a recent article […]
Creating New Form Views to Expand on InfoPath 2010 Out of the Box Customization Capabilities for List Items
Out of the box InfoPath 2010 only permits the production of custom edit forms for list items, regardless of whether the required activity is to view items, edit items or even create items. Nevertheless, when list items are either, edited, viewed or created, in SharePoint 2010, three different forms are served to the viewer. In […]
Publishing Database Connections for InfoPath 2010 to SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]