IWI 202 Introduction to InfoPath
I went to the InfoPath Overview yesterday, presented by Shiraz Cupula. It was a high-level overview, which was fine for me because I didn't know very much about InfoPath. But the talk got me pretty interested, so now I'm really interested to try it out.
Highlights:
- Rich forms interface. In one example, Shiraz clicked “Yes“ on an option, and another section of the form appeared, asking for additional information.
- Part of the Office suite
- Particularly useful for collecting information that is currently going onto paper forms.
- Rich-text editing
- Conditional formatting
- Immediate validation, either against the schema, or a web service
- All input and output is Xml
- Can retrieve data from a database
- “Premier smart client for Xml Web Services“
- Support for digital signatures
- Rich text areas grow automatically
- Can use the form offline, then submit to online backend later on, web service, database, or BizTalk
P.S. I tried to setup InfoPath to be my blog editor, submitting to Scott's web service, but I keep getting an error message, “The parameter is incorrect”, but it doesn't tell me *which* parameter. Does anyone have this working currently, and want to share their form?