Newbie Questions

Re: Digital Signatures

vapires — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:48:10 GMT

Thanks Matt! I do not have the db accelerator so I ended up submiting my form to a sql table and using SQL Data Transformation Services to build the text file. Thanks for your help.

Re: Digital Signatures

Matt Faus — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 23:32:41 GMT

Hi Vidette,

You should check out the sample Timecard form that comes with InfoPath - it is likely all you will need in order to collect the information you are looking for. I don't have a lot of experience with digital signature, so I'll have to let someone else answer that, but as for the last question, there are a lot of ways to solve this problem. Here are the ones I came up with:

1. Write a SharePoint event handler to watch for timecard uploads and then shred them to a text file
2. Write a command line utility that you can run manually or with a scheduled task to pull all the XML files, parse them, and then shred them to a text file
3. Use our Database Accelerator to shred each form straight into the SQL database as it is submitted.

The third option, of course, is how I would do. Not only do you get codeless shredding with the DBXL webservice, but there are also a slew of other features such as version tracking, fine-grained permissions, indexing, and many others! Try it out here:http://www.qdabra.com/proddetail.asp?prod=QDBXL1

Digital Signatures

vapires — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:16:42 GMT

Hi, I am starting to work on a project and need some guidance as to how to approach this using Infopath.

I am trying to Automate Time Sheets for the company. Currently users fill out a paper form and submit their Timesheet to HR.
1- I need to Fill out this form in Infopath
2 - Get the users signature
3- At the end of the week all the submitted forms need to be converted into a comma delimited text file so that it can be imported into Timberline (our payroll db)

1-- suggestionson how to approach digital certificates? do we need to purchase this or is there something inbuilt I can use?
2-- can I manage to convert all submitted forms to one single comma delimited text file?

Thanks for your help !!!