InfoPath Dev

I'm new to Infopath's capabilities. My company would like to use the features of Outlook task with Infopath forms. We need to move a form from a sales persons to operations for approvals, equipment ordering, delivery scheduling and IT installation. Can the form be passed from Outlook just as you would a email. Can the form be routed. Any help before an extensive use of time would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Duane

Hi

a form could be mailed from user to user (with a status flag being set or similar) but if you are looking for real workflow capabilities, i would consider integrating InfoPath with BizTalk workflow engine.

check out this link on the subject
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/odc_ip2003_ta/html/Office_InfoPath_integrating_HWS.asp


hth
//AndersR

Thanks for the info. I haven't looked at the Biz Talk server product yet. We are trying to stop the workflow bleeding, in your option would Biz talk be a short turnaround on delivery to the work place? We are not looking for a complex solution now but setting up a platform that we could expand on would be helpful. Would SharePoint offer workflow capablitiy with ease of set up?

Duane

BizTalk workflow engine is fine but another powerful workflow application out there called K2 Workflow -http://www.k2workflow.com/. It has out of the box integration with InfoPath, ASP.NET, WinForms, SharePoint, BizTalk, CMS, etc. I have done a lot of work with it. It has tended to be a bit easier to work with that BizTalk's current workflow framework.

Using K2, SharePoint and BizTalk you can build a complete framework and rapidly reduce development times. This coupled with InfoPath RAD development, you can created end-to-end solutions in a couple weeks. I have talked about it a couple times on this forum. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions regarding K2.