InfoPath & Outlook integration

[Paul Green]

Hi All,

I think the answer to this is a big fat NO, but I'll ask anyway.

Does anyone know if it's possible to create an Outlook folder which
can store InfoPath documents and promote some doc-properties as
Outlook columns (as in SharePoint forms libraries)?

I can create a folders with, say, tasks, with each task having a
hyperlink to the IP doc, which is rubbish - I want to be able to see
and sort the forms in the Outlook view.

All my users are used to using Outlook, which is an ideal platform for
what I'm doing, no-one wants to user SharePoint (nothing against SP,
just web-apps in general).

Thanks a lot
Paul.

 

[Brian Teutsch [MSFT]]

That's a great request, but you're definitely right - it's pretty far from
possible. Groove does make a product that lets users take SharePoint sites
offline onto their desktop, and it does work with InfoPath, so you might
want to evaluate that for your needs.

Brian