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Business Apps With Electronic Forms
SharePoint PUG
Business Apps With Electronic FormsBrowser-enabled Forms
Agenda What are Business Applications? Importance of Business
Applications? Role of SharePoint in Business
Applications Is SharePoint the right tool to
develop business applications?
Agenda What are electronic forms? Evolution of electronic forms Learn how to create eForms using Microsoft technologies SharePoint and InfoPath hand in hand Electronic forms for streamlining business processes
Platform Make sure InfoPath services are enabled Make sure SharePoint is configured to work with
InfoPath Avoid pitfalls
What Is InfoPath? InfoPath is an information gathering tool and is used to
create XML forms. People have always been trying to come up with a standard for creating electronic forms. Before InfoPath, companies created electronic forms in different formats. InfoPath has helped companies to adhere to a standard. Coding XML manually may not be an interesting job but creating XML forms with InfoPath has really made this job quite easier.
Forms For The Browser What are browser-enabled forms? Requirements for creating browser enabled forms Licensing Requirements Alternate solutions Desktop App VS Browser Forms InfoPath Advantage InfoPath and SharePoint Together
Create form Create form; add controls Add data connections
Note: Controls and data connections will be explained in demo shortly
Publish Publishing through central admin Publishing using stsadm Publishing using Powershell
Preparing SharePoint Library Prepare SharePoint forms library for deployment Publish form
Submit Options
Configure form for submit options
Demo (20 mins)
Summary
This was a simple form used to demonstrate the creation and publishing process. You have seen the publishing method. Now you can design simple forms as well as complicated ones. The publishing method does not change. Only form layout and design will change. For complicated forms, programming can be done in Visual Studio.
Q & A (10 mins)
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