Business Apps With Electronic Forms

SharePoint PUG

Business Apps With Electronic FormsBrowser-enabled Forms

Agenda What are Business Applications? Importance of Business

Applications? Role of SharePoint in Business

Applications Is SharePoint the right tool to

develop business applications?

Agenda What are electronic forms? Evolution of electronic forms Learn how to create eForms using Microsoft technologies SharePoint and InfoPath hand in hand Electronic forms for streamlining business processes

Platform Make sure InfoPath services are enabled Make sure SharePoint is configured to work with

InfoPath Avoid pitfalls

What Is InfoPath? InfoPath is an information gathering tool and is used to

create XML forms. People have always been trying to come up with a standard for creating electronic forms. Before InfoPath, companies created electronic forms in different formats. InfoPath has helped companies to adhere to a standard. Coding XML manually may not be an interesting job but creating XML forms with InfoPath has really made this job quite easier.

Forms For The Browser What are browser-enabled forms? Requirements for creating browser enabled forms Licensing Requirements Alternate solutions Desktop App VS Browser Forms InfoPath Advantage InfoPath and SharePoint Together

Create form Create form; add controls Add data connections

Note: Controls and data connections will be explained in demo shortly

Publish Publishing through central admin Publishing using stsadm Publishing using Powershell

Preparing SharePoint Library Prepare SharePoint forms library for deployment Publish form

Submit Options

Configure form for submit options

Demo (20 mins)

Summary

This was a simple form used to demonstrate the creation and publishing process. You have seen the publishing method. Now you can design simple forms as well as complicated ones. The publishing method does not change. Only form layout and design will change. For complicated forms, programming can be done in Visual Studio.

Q & A (10 mins)

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