I opened my big mouth

[GAZ]

I opened my big mouth about office intergration and infopath forms to get
our web-based expense reporting onto an offline solution rather than the
web-based clunker we enjoy now. The president is escalating this into a
project now. Guess who is on the task force?

I am green with this. I know SharePoint okay and have done reasonably
advanced stuff with it. Nada with InfoPath.

How should I get started (at a high level)? Define schema? USe existing
schema from Oracle?

Can legacy tools/connectors easily pre-populate fields in infopath forms?
Can a form populate tables in an Oracle DB? How much work is it?

 

[Bob Chauvin \( Paix dehors \)]

I am also relatively green, but found that Infopath docs are just XML, that
point to the infopath form schema.

So... If you have an existing schema, you can build an IP form from that
(SP2 required).

You can build your xml doc with the appropriate schema, and opening it will
launch IP

Infopath can talk to SQL Server, and any other database via Web Services.

I was scepticle, but find it to be a fairly robust, if not new/immature
platform.

Check out:
http://blogs.msdn.com/infopath/