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Electronic Signatures allow you to add signatures to your solutions without the hassle of setting up digital certificates. Qdabra packaged the Electronic Signature template part so that you can reuse it in all of your forms. This blog post describes Qdabra...
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Let's say you have a field in a repeating group that you'd like to set to the value of another field in your form. Pretty straight-forward, right? Set a rule on the field with the desired value, and when you change that value, all the instances...
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DBXL v2.3 allows you to map your DBXL xml documents into a SharePoint form library . You can use the "Publish Library and XSN" checkbox to create a new form library or update an existing one. However, if you promote a field as “Description”...
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A recent conversation (okay, a conversation over a month ago, it has been a busy spring) with an InfoPathDev user reminded me of these wonderful tutorials on MSDN. Please, please don't be afraid of MSDN. I know there is scary object model blah blah...
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When you have moved or renamed an InfoPath form template (XSN), the associated XML files become orphaned from their associated template. The Qdabra Modify PI Tool for InfoPath (QdModifyPI) modifies the InfoPath processing instruction (“HREF”) attribute...
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It is always nice to alert people via email that there is a form they should look at -- maybe you are using some built in InfoPath capabilities for your work flow rather than having to build one in SharePoint, maybe you just want to make sure that the...
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A previous blog post provided some guidelines on how to create form templates with different versions. One is a restricted version for public-use, i.e. for external users; and another for private use. The private version may contain some additional controls...
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Large enterprises generally have redundancy mechanisms in place for critical SQL databases and are managed by an IT staff. For those without the large IT staff to manage your systems, you may still need something more than nightly backups. For high-availability...
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As a DBXL user, you might encounter an error when submitting your form to a SQL database. Normally, the error returned by an InfoPath form will not give you the information you need, such as a detailed error explaining why a submit process failed. In...
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Everyone gathers contact information. Let’s face it: people are the backbone of our business and we need to know how to reach them. We gather this information by collecting the data in forms. Unfortunately, it can be very difficult to reuse this information...
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Kudos to Russell Wright on his great article entitled " Using XSLT to Create a Forms Server Link on a Task Form ." The premise is that when a workflow is created around an XML form, there is a To-Do item in the task list that links to a view...
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Microsoft has an exporter that allows you to save InfoPath (and Office 2007) documents as PDF files. You can download the add-in here . There is an additional add-in that allows you to save as either PDF or XPS. Click here for that . But Microsoft also...
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Qdabra’s Active Directory Web Service allows you to obtain the manager’s alias for a given username. This means that you can load the information for the currently logged in user, then determine his or her manager, then query again to obtain the manager...
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There is sometimes a need to have a form that works differently for public (external) vs. private (internal) use. As an example, you might want to make a simple form to be sent out via email or downloaded from a website and submits back to you via email...
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