Designing Forms for Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007

4-DAY CLASS | COURSE SP2001

Microsoft’s SharePoint 2007 is one of the most powerful collaboration and information management systems available today. SharePoint 2007 provides your employees with a single point of access for all your organization’s teams, departments, partners and customers over your corporate Internet, intranet and extranet SharePoint portals.

This four-day course is designed to equip Web developers and designers with the knowledge of how to develop custom forms using Microsoft Office InfoPath. Attendees will develop skills to design, implement, deploy and customize forms that can then be deployed to Forms Services 2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. In this course students will have four days of hands-on training to learn how to design and customize InfoPath forms, including:

- The basics of InfoPath form design
- Working with data and advanced controls
- Conditional formatting and data validation rules
- How to retrieve data from external sources
- Various features of data connections
- Submitting forms and working with form templates
- Understanding various security levels
- Merging and exporting forms
- Installing and configuring form services

Audience and Prerequisites
Students attending this course should meet the following prerequisites:

- A generalized knowledge of managed business processes
- A foundational understanding of HTML and Cascading Style Sheets
- A familiarity of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Forms Services 2007 or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

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Training Schedule:

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If you have eight (8) or more students we can provide on-site training as a cost-effective option. Call us toll-free to get details:

877-795-9372
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Did You Know?

• A typical worker produces 300GB of data each year?

• A typical worker spends 30% of the time each day searching for information?

• Lost productivity costs a 1,000 employee company $5 million per year.

Chapter 1:  Introducing InfoPath 2007

What is InfoPath?
InfoPath 2003 vs InfoPath 2007

Chapter 2: Basics of InfoPath Form Design

Form Templates
Creating New Templates
Designing the Layout of the Form
Using Controls
Creating Views
Advanced Formatting

Chapter 3: Working with Data

Data Binding
Data Source Field and Group Properties
Manually Editing the Data Source
Advanced Data Binding
Editing the Default Template Data

Chapter 4:Advanced Controls and Customization

Advanced Controls
Control Properties
Advanced Customizations

Chapter 5: Adding Logic without Code

Conditional formatting
Data Validation
Rules
Logic Inspector

Chapter 6:Retrieving Data from External Sources

Data Connections
XML Files
Databases
Web Services
SharePoint Lists and Libraries

Chapter 7:Extended Features of Data Connections

Extended Features of Web Services
Secondary Data Source Binding
Offline Mode Query Support
List Box Controls

Chapter 8: Submitting Form Data

Submitting Forms
ADO.NET DataSet Submit
Submit Options

Chapter 9: Saving and Publishing

Saving and Publishing a Form Template
Saving Templates as Extracted Source Files
Previewing Form Templates

Chapter 10: Building Reusable Components

Designing a Template Part
Using a Template Part
Updating Template Parts
Customizing Existing Template Parts

Chapter 11: Security and Deployment

InfoPath Security
Security Levels
Trust and Designer Lockdown
Digital Signatures
Information Rights Management

Chapter 12: Creating Reports

Merging Forms
Printing
Exporting Forms

Chapter 13: Workflows

User Roles
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
InfoPath E-mail Forms

Chapter 14: Forms Services

Installing and Configuring Forms Services
Publishing a Form Template to Forms Services
Browser Form Functionality
SharePoint Integration
Data Connections