Hello,
I'm brand new to InfoPath and have been asked to design a form that my department will fill out for project proposals.
Users will submit the form to me via email and I will put them in the appropriate network folder for managers to edit and approve or disapprove.
Once the proposals have been edited and approved, I need to consolidate some data from all of these forms into a budget report.
I am scheduled to take an intro to InfoPath class next week but the form I created has to go out before I will have a chance to figure out what I'm doing. My question is, if I just publish this form, email it out and have users submit to me via email, will I be able to "compile" data later on having not set up a data connection in the beginning? I assume I would want to put it into Access (I have a fair amount of experience with the program) but have also see a few people mention "compiling forms" into a report. I just want to know if I will have an option later or if I will end up doing a bunch of manual entry because this form has to go out a week before I learn how to use it :-)
Thank you very much in advance for any information you can provide to me.