An email received from Nintex about SharePoint 2010:
There has been much speculation about the capabilities of SharePoint 2010 and the effect it may have on products that extend the current SharePoint platform. We understand the concern this can cause our customers and partners [...]
For a while now I’m building InfoPath form and mainly browser based forms which are cool. But InfoPath 2007 lacks some things in the browser based forms like combo boxes and multiple selection lists. On Itay’s blog I read about the new features of InfoPath 2010:
Pre-built page layouts and section layouts.
New Controls:
Picture buttons.
Hyperlink capabilities.
Date and time [...]
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 June cumulative update package
http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=971538
Office SharePoint Server 2007 June cumulative update package
http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=971537
Read more at the source for installation sequence.
Edit July 22:
My development server has been updated (and yes…it is called coffee )
Recently I was working on some infopath forms for a customer. At first I had made these forms in my own development SharePoint farm together with all the data connections (.udcx files). I had to move all the forms to the SharePoint farm of my customer. In this post you can find how I managed this and got everything working in the new [...]
Continue reading about Move Infopath forms to new SharePoint farm
In this post I talked about user roles in browser-based forms. I’ve found a very extensive post on Clayton’s blog (here) about another way of using user roles in forms. Check it out, it is very good.
Also on the subject of webservice he has some interesting posts.
Continue reading about Infopath update on userroles and webservices
Something I am looking for for quite some time is setting permissions in Infopath forms (browser based). For example, I am building a kind of timesheet form in which several fields might not be accessible by the users but only someone from the financial services department.
I tried several things until I found this blogpost at [...]
At the moment I’m researching cookie expiration in combination with FBA at a clients SharePoint farm. Cookie expiration is set to one (1) day at that is not acceptable. In my search on the internet for information about this, I stumbled upon a MSDN article about FBA and though it is not relevant for the [...]
In a Infopath form I was building I wanted to get the Manager name of the person who opens the form but also the Email address of that manager, for later use in a Nintex Workflow. In the comments of Itak Shakury’s post I found the necessary info.
First I retrieve the User information I need [...]
Continue reading about The GetCommonManager webservice in Infopath 2007
In my Infopath 2007 forms in my SharePoint site I want to collect some information about the logged in user who opens the form, like first name, last name, department, manager etc.
I found this blogpost of Itay Shakury which helped me a lot.
If you receive security errors please read this post of Jingmei Li.
Continue reading about Get current user information in Infopath form
At the moment I am designing some forms for a customer. To let all forms have the same design and layout I use reusable form template parts.
Look at this post for a detailed description how to use this parts.
