InfoPath Team BlogTips and tricks to get the most out of Microsoft Office InfoPathAssociating a Custom Document Information Panel with an Office Document- March 28, 2007 When a custom Document Information Panel is associated with an Office document andor template, the information needed to locate the Panel is contained in a custom XML data part stored with the document.I wont go into the details of the way an Office Open XML document is structured here (needless to say there are many great resources for this on the web), but the format is basically a ZIP file with a collection of XML files that describe the contents of the word processing, spreadsheet, or...http://blogs.msdn.com/infopath/archive/2007/03/28/associating-a-custom-document-informatio... Submitting to a SharePoint List- March 26, 2007 As you know, submitting to a Microsoft Windows SharePoint form library from an InfoPath form is quite simple: just add a submit type of data connection to InfoPath and away you go. However, submitting to a SharePoint List is another matter. In this post, we will take a look at the steps necessary to enable this functionality. Step 1: Create the list 1. Create a new custom list named: MyContacts2. From the Settings button choose List Settings3. Click Create Column4. Add the following...http://blogs.msdn.com/infopath/archive/2007/03/26/submitting-to-a-sharepoint-list.aspx InfoPath Data Connections: Part 1- March 21, 2007 Summary This article is part of a series of documents explaining the Data concept in Microsoft Office InfoPath. This particular article is an overview of how Data Connections work in InfoPath. The intended audience is those who are new to InfoPath and those who use InfoPath, but have not built up knowledge in the way Data Connections work. For more exhaustive information regarding specific types of data connection, see the Links section at the end of this...http://blogs.msdn.com/infopath/archive/2007/03/21/infopath-data-connections-part-1.aspx Transforming InfoPath Rich Text to Word- March 19, 2007 This article applies to InfoPath 2003 and Word 2003. Summary InfoPath is great for capturing structured data. A common scenario is that you need to output that data in a Word document. It is quite easy to create an XSLT transformation that will take the XML generated by InfoPath as input and generate WordprocessingML tags. For example, to output the value of the EmployeeName form field in a word documents paragraph you would use the following XSLT fragment:...http://blogs.msdn.com/infopath/archive/2007/03/19/transforming-infopath-rich-text-to-word.... |