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InfoPath 2010 Introduction Part 1: Create a simple form

JessMeats — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:55:00 GMT

First in a new series of demo videos introducing InfoPath 2010. In this demo, I show the creation and publication of a simple electronic form.

Scenario: Holiday Requests

JessMeats — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:17:00 GMT

This is a short demo showing a potential scenario for InfoPath and SharePoint workflows improving common processes. In this demo, an employee requests holiday, their manager reviews and approves the request, and then the holiday is added to a SharePoint team calendar.

How to: Connect to a database

JessMeats — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:22:00 GMT

Continuing my series of how to demos. I had a request to do a video showing how to show red, yellow, green indicators based on values from a database. Yesterday, I posted a demo showing how to set up indicators. Today, you get to see how to connect to a database. The procedure is the same to connect to an Access and a SQL database.

The procedure for connecting to a web service is very similar, but includes choosing which method to use for reading and writing data, based on a list of methods supported by the web service.

How to: Show indicators based on values

JessMeats — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:20:00 GMT

This video is a response to a request. The request was to show how to show indicators based on values taken from SQL. In this video, I showed how to set conditional formatting to show indicators based on the value in a field. In this example, the value was entered manually, but exactly the same process can be applied to set rules on fields where the data is taken from an external data source.

I can show how to connect to an external data source in a separate demo.

If you have a request for a how to video, please let me know.

How to: Display a form in SharePoint

JessMeats — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:37:00 GMT

Continuing my "how to" series with this requested demo. In this video, I show how to embed an InfoPath form as a web part in a SharePoint page.

If you have a request for a feature you'd like to see demonstrated, please leave a comment.

How to: Hide a Section

JessMeats — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:40:00 GMT

Continuing my series of "how to" videos, I show how to use conditional formatting to hide or show a section based on the values entered elsewhere in a form.

Conditional formatting can be incredibly valuable when you're creating a long, complex form where people might need to fill out different parts depending on the circumstances. By including a few, logical rules, you can ensure that people only see those parts of the form that are relevant to their circumstances. This makes the process of filling out the form much easier and reduces the frequency of errors, which can in turn reduce process costs.

If you have suggestions of features you'd like to see in this series, please leave a comment and I'll see what I can do.

How to: Auto Populate

JessMeats — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:10:00 GMT

A couple of different people have asked me how to auto-populate the values in fields based on the username and values in external data sources. Those questions were the inspiration for this series of videos. I will show how to do simple but useful things in InfoPath. If there's something you'd like to be shown how to do, please leave a note in the comments and I'll see what I can do.

SharePoint for Business Processes

JessMeats — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:07:00 GMT

Continuing my series of short introductions to how SharePoint can be used to solve various business problems. This video touches on custom and out of the box workflows, as well as browser-enabled InfoPath forms.

SharePoint for Document Management

JessMeats — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:39:00 GMT

Continuing my series of videos showing the capabilities of SharePoint as a solution for various business problems. This video shows some of the features relating to document management.

SharePoint for Search

JessMeats — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:37:00 GMT

This is the third in my series of videos showing how SharePoint can be used as a solution to a range of business problems. This demo shows some of the features that are designed to help SharePoint function as a search solution, such as basic and advanced search, people search and business data search.

SharePoint for Collaboration

JessMeats — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:00:00 GMT

This is the second in my series of videos showing how SharePoint can be used as a solution to a range of business problems. This demo shows some of the features that are designed to help SharePoint function as a collaboration solution, such as discussion boards, wiki pages, project task lists and more.

SharePoint for Portals

JessMeats — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:34:00 GMT

This video is the first of a new series showing how the capabilities of SharePoint fit various business solutions. SharePoint can be used in a wide range of different scenarios to solve a huge number of different business problems. In this series, I will discuss some of the most common ways SharePoint is used and some of the features specific to those.

In this video, I talk about SharePoint as a portal solution and some key features: content query web parts, audience targeting and mysites.

InfoPath Introduction Part 7

JessMeats — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:39:00 GMT

Continuing my series of demonstrations introducing the capabilities of InfoPath 2007. This demo shows how easy it is to create a form that connects to a database to view records, update records and create records.

InfoPath Introduction Part 5

JessMeats — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:54:00 GMT

This continues my series of introductory demos to InfoPath 2007. In this demo, I discuss the benefits of views and how to associate views to user roles.

InfoPath Introduction Part 4

JessMeats — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:06:00 GMT

In this part of my introductory series, I will show how InfoPath can be used with SharePoint or Forms Server to provide forms through the internet browser.