Mohamed Saleh, Sr. Dev Engineer, DevosisAli Nimer, Sr. Dev Engineer, Devosis

November, 2009

Understanding InfoPath Forms Services

Who’s Who

Mohamed Saleh :• Senior Development Engineer - Devosis• Speaker at Various User Groups (JORDEV, JSUG, JITPROs)• Leader of Jordan .Net User Group (Jordev)• Blog: http://geeksconnected.com/mohamed

Ali Nimer:• Senior SharePoint Developer- Devosis• Speaker at Riyadh SharePoint User Group (RSUG)• Board Member at Riyadh SharePoint User Group (RSUG)• Blog: http://geeksconnected.com/AliNimer

What to Expect During this Presentation

Few Slides, Lots of Demos

We will take few questions during the presentation. Hold off with remaining questions until the end, Please.

You will enjoy this presentation more if, you already have some basic knowledge of SharePoint and SharePoint Designer.

Agenda• What is InfoPath?

• Convert a Microsoft Office Word document to a Microsoft Office InfoPath form

• Enhance the InfoPath form with Rules, Validation and Data Connections

• Publish the form to Forms Server

• Create a Workflow process using SharePoint Designer

What is InfoPath?Paperless environment (Business Processes)

Similar to paper forms that are used in many businesses to get work done

Design and publish interactive, user-friendly

Inserting standard form controls, such as text boxes or list boxes, on a form template

Why InfoPath?

Electronically

Off-line availability

Rich user-interface

Error free information

Re-useable

Result without InfoPath

Result without InfoPath

Demo

• Using Forms Template Convertors

InfoPath Internals

InfoPath Forms Services

• A Server Technology (WSS, ASP.NET)• Enabling Users to fill out InfoPath templates on Browser

in addition to InfoPath Client.• Allows wider access to the forms – Less Licensing.• Forms Server… Forms Services…

Adding Workflow Capability

Demo

Q&A