I’m a fan of what is probably the least known of the Office products.\u00a0 InfoPath is intended to be used as a digital form editing and browsing tool.\u00a0 Using it you can completely do away with the need of paper forms (excluding regulatory requirements) in your office.\u00a0 This not only\u00a0does your bit to save the rain forests but also makes your organisation more responsive to change.<\/p>\n
I’ve used InfoPath 2003 in the past for managing projects and for employee timesheets.\u00a0 The form was published onto Sharepoint for easy access and storage.\u00a0 My usage was quite basic.\u00a0 I was hoping to expand its usage to include all of our process that required forms.\u00a0 Unfortunately, that was when our department was moved to Germany.<\/p>\n
The data could be stored in the forms or in a SQL database.\u00a0 Data was validated using rules.\u00a0 Drop down dialogs cou be pre-populated.\u00a0 Most of all, if you have deployed certificates, e.g. deployed an enterprise CA and certificate auto enrollment for users, then you could require that users of the form sign them, thus guaranteeing that person X did actually fill the form.\u00a0 You could extend this using workflow for automated processing of the forms.<\/p>\n
InfoPath 2007 was released with the Office 2007 system.\u00a0 Microsoft has made step-by-step training available<\/a>.\u00a0 It also includes a set of downloadable samples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m a fan of what is probably the least known of the Office products.\u00a0 InfoPath is intended to be used as a digital form editing and browsing tool.\u00a0 Using it you can completely do away with the need of paper forms (excluding regulatory requirements) in your office.\u00a0 This not only\u00a0does your bit to save the … Continue reading “InfoPath 2007 Training Lab”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}