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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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Greg’s blog post provided brief guidelines on how to create form templates with different versions. One is a restricted version for public-use, i.e. for external users; the other is a version for private use. The private version may contain some additional...
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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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We have created a Twitter account for our forum so that you can keep up with all the blog posts as they happen! Follow us at http://www.twitter.com/infopathdev .
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Wondering why you can't publish your InfoPath form to a SharePoint custom list? This is a limitation of both InfoPath and SharePoint - you can only publish forms to a form library/document library but not to a custom list. Submitting data to a custom...
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The Active Directory Web Service is a very powerful tool for retrieving user information in our solutions, making them easier to fill out. What’s even more convenient is the ability to just inject it into our forms in a single mouse-click – and there...
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In a previous blog post , we’ve shown you a template part called Contact Block Advanced , and described how useful it is for keeping a record of contact persons / employees for every company, all in one place. One of its cool features is the ability to...
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If you edit an existing Document Type in DBXL you’ll see a button labeled Save As in the header. This is an easy way to create a duplicate of your configuration, but under a different name. Why is this useful? Here are two possible scenarios: Database...
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While setting up a child table database mapping in DAT (whether in DBXL v2.2 or DBXL v2.3), you might find that only the first row of the repeating table (mapped to the child table) is committed to the child table. The reason for the problem is an error...