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Using InfoPath to create a form for a library

Using InfoPath to create a form for a library

From the course: SharePoint Designer 2010: Building Custom Workflows

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Using InfoPath to create a form for a library

If you'd like a form with more bells and whistles than the SharePoint forms provide, I'd encourage you to take a look at Microsoft InfoPath. InfoPath 2010 lets you create two different types of forms, one type of form is a full-featured form that runs in Microsoft InfoPath filler, so it can be used offline. For example, a form that salespeople might fill out when they can't get to a web connection. The other type of form that you can create using InfoPath is a Browser-ready form, so it's a real competitor for the SharePoint forms, but you can create forms that are more beautiful and forms that use some controls that SharePoint doesn't have access to. This is an example of an InfoPath form for the workflow that we're creating to request a new position, so this is a workflow with lots of conditions. I'll just walk-through it briefly here, we have the ability for a person to enter the title of the position that they'd like to have hired, a proposed start date, their own name, and email…

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