Explore InfoPath 2003—and transform the way you manage business information and deliver results! This guide expertly reviews InfoPath features and capabilities—including the latest updates from Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 1—demonstrating how to create easy-to-use forms to capture data from spreadsheets, text files, databases, XML Web services, and even e-mail in reusable XML format. Whether you’re streamlining your invoicing system, managing performance appraisals, or collecting feedback from users or customers, you’ll discover how to quickly connect the people and information you need—with no XML enterprise or advanced programming required.
Discover how to:
- Use InfoPath forms to capture and validate user input—without writing code
- Design from features, from basic controls and views to digital signing options
- Send forms to shared servers, Web sites, form libraries, or e-mail
- Easily reuse captured XML data in other applications, such as Microsoft Word or Excel
- Develop front-end forms that interoperate with back-end databases such as Microsoft SQL Server and with Web services
- Use your programming skills to customize forms with the InfoPath 2003 Toolkit for Visual Studio .NET
- Generate special purpose XML documents, such as Really Simple Syndication 9RSS) 2.0 files