Good Book or reference material on using Infopath with VSOT's

[kfrost]

Hello,

I'm contemplating on using Infopath for a concept I have. It needs to
function as a stand alone application storing data when offline and then
connecting to a web service when online.

I'm looking for a book that will go into details such as reading and
manuevering around dataset created by Infopath such as the Main Query or a
secondary query.

I'm looking for a way to display sorts of information based on user
credentials. There's quite a bit more I'm looking to do and I've yet to find
any good documenation or books. I've tried the SDK but after trying to
follow the DataInterop example and then calling MS support and getting told
not to use those examples because they were dated and based on pre SP 1
Infopath, I'm back to searching for a detailed guide.

Any pointers would be greately appreciated.

Thanks.

kris

 

[Renee in Juneau]

Check out these webcasts:
http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/W...lture=en-us&EventID=1032259551&CountryCode=US
http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/W...lture=en-us&EventID=1032259111&CountryCode=US
http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/W...lture=en-us&EventID=1032259538&CountryCode=US

These books:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0735621160
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0764579487

and these sites:
www.infopathdev.com
http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/understanding/infopath/techarticles/default.aspx

I don't have a link, but you REALLY need to order a copy of the
Fabrikam 3.1 demo project from Microsoft. 3Sharp did an awesome job
with this.


Offline user credentials will be interesting to implement. You can get
access to the user name via environment. But anyway, once you've got
the name pegged into a particular user role, you can use views and
conditional formatting to differentiate what the user sees/has access
to.

 

[Mike]

end user needs to have InfoPath installed on their machine
There is no InfoPath viewer.