InfoPath Review

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re: InfoPath Review

David — Tue, 22 May 2007 13:28:19 GMT

I checked out InfoPath and was impressed on how quickly I can throw together a form and how pretty it looks. But then the big hammer came crashing down on my dreams. How can I concatenate forms in such a way as that the subsequent forms dynamically change based on entries in the previous forms? Of course, I can make trips to the database and back, but what if subsequent forms invalidate or change previous entries? Adding the dynamics to forms is close to impossible unless I use some scripting. And for that PHP and MySQL are way more powerful as some clicked together form. That really was a disappointment.

re: InfoPath Review

Dave Burke — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 16:23:00 GMT

Mauro, couldn't agree more! Thanks for the comments.

re: InfoPath Review

Mauro Ciaccio — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 16:13:00 GMT

...and what about storing the database connection string in the clear whenever you save an InfoPath form...
It seems to me that unless you simply need to capture data from different people and store it in an XML format ONLY for it to be PRINTED OUT (no back-end data saving) then putting together a solid InfoPath form is NOT TRIVIAL.

re: InfoPath Review

Irv Schor — Thu, 03 Jun 2004 20:11:00 GMT

...everybody pay attention and look at what Lotus Notes/Domino has been providing for the past 10 years. MicroSoft continues to require product addon after product add on in its attempt at a 'consolidated' groupware solution. The above example would have been a cakewalk in Notes, with one product on 1 server.

re: InfoPath Review

Amir Parsi Esfahani — Thu, 20 May 2004 06:30:00 GMT

There is a more important limitation: "Long type fields are not supported to sumbit". It means that storing a xml file in a database is not allowed if there are fields of type "ntext", "memo", ...

re: InfoPath Review

Raymond Burns — Sat, 24 Apr 2004 04:51:00 GMT

For what it's worth, I'm a non-programmer and was able to create necessary forms fairly easily. What I couldn't do, I was able to find online. I'm using Data Views in Frontpage to connect to query Forms to pull necessary information. To display the necessary info in a webpart, I'm just using filters which seem pretty intuitive.

re: InfoPath Review

Dave Burke — Tue, 24 Feb 2004 21:39:00 GMT

Thanks, Matias. Once I can get my hands on a non-preview copy, I'm definitely going to check it out!

Service Pack Incoming

Matías Niño — Tue, 24 Feb 2004 21:35:00 GMT

There's a service pack incoming that might address a lot of your UI grievances (which I completely agree with about InfoPath).

Check it out!

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2004/feb04/02-23EnhancedInfoPathPR.asp

re: InfoPath Review

Dave Burke — Mon, 16 Feb 2004 13:11:00 GMT

Thanks, Phil. Went through it last week, sample by sample. Some cool and helpful stuff there, for sure, but it didn't change the issues I had with the UI and development support.