InfoPath Dev

Hi

I'm new to sharepoint and infopath development. First of all, how I can quickly get started with these technologies. Some good links please?

Currently the forms are developed in infopath combined with sharepoint teamsite. A few of the clients do not have infopath installed on their desktops and hence the client wants to migrate a few of the infopath forms to webforms. The users would login to sharepoint team site, and would see all the infopath forms under the documents section. The user can fill out a form or edit the form. Currently when they do either of this, form opens up in infopath client. Instead they would ALSO want to see the form in a browser and be able to submit the form to the sharepoint server to save it. Is it possible to provide a webedit option in the documents window where the forms are listed? Can somebody offer me a technical solution to this? What are the webservices/APIs exposed by sharepoint to achieve this? Can I support all the features supported by infopath like version management, checkin/checkout etc. using webforms? How do I seamlessly migrate?

One way might be to use the xml/xsl contained in .xsn file and show the controls in a browser and while saving create an xml file having the same schema as that of a infopath form and submit back to the sharepoint server.

Any help, code samples is highly appreciated.

Regards

Rajesh

Hello Rajesh

You can start getting trained in Infopath with the Training labs available at the below link
http://www.infopathdev.com/resources/labs/default.aspx
Read the HowTo's, Tricks written on this site written by experts which are very helpful.Also you can Refer Infopath 2003 SDK Documentation which you can download from this site(See on the left side)

Regarding showing Infopath forms in webbrowser, Yes you can only show them using Downlevel tool but the clients may not be able to edit them. However this feature is made available in Infopath 2007 where the Forms can be opened in Web browser and be edited by the clients who do not have Infopath Installed

I'd recommend getting the SDK and then read the tech articles in MSDN:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/ipsdk/html/ipsdkwelcometotheipsdk_hv01071365.asp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/program/infopath/2003/reference/articles/

hth