From the course: InfoPath 2010 Essential Training

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What you can do with InfoPath

What you can do with InfoPath

From the course: InfoPath 2010 Essential Training

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What you can do with InfoPath

If you're new to InfoPath form development, it's helpful to think about what you can do with InfoPath before you jump in and begin creating forms. While some of us create forms that we will use, most of us create InfoPath forms for others to use. So before I jump in and say, "What can InfoPath do for me?" it's helpful to think, what can InfoPath do for my users? Onscreen you're seeing a form that we actually create in this course, so we'll be creating the Web Post Express Request and a more detailed request form, and it's just a beautiful form, and this is the user experience of this form. If they're using the InfoPath Filler, they have the ability to type text and make sure that they do. So we're doing some basic validation to choose dates using date pickers, to choose departments from dropdown lists, to say actually, I want to enter a whole new section in this form, and insert or delete optional sections. So it's a good-looking form. It's a form that works amazingly well, that…

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