relationship to sharepoint

[BorisS]

sorry for the very newbie question, but how is infopath related to sharepoint
(if at all)? Let me describe what I am after, and hopefully get some
guidance:

My workgroup, spread across India and the US, has lots of Excel, Word, and
PDF documents that we are constantly receiving, and needing to process (view,
edit, resave, etc.), and then send back and forth between a host of members
of teams. I am envisioning that our current process of using OL to get
things back and forth is inefficient (along with the back and forth, we are
saving copies of files both within OL messages and somewhat haphazardly on
Groove, which is overloaded with the volume of duplicate documents we have).

I would hope there's a way to have each person on the team have a workflow,
wherein s/he can see the documents that are to be reviewed/commented/edited,
do what s/he needs to do to them, and then move the process along.

What sort of solution can I look to as an example (built into infopath of
sharepoint) of how something like this can be done?

thanks much.
Boris

 

[Don Reamey \(MSFT\)]

InfoPath has a SharePoint component called InfoPath Forms Service. This is
part of Office 2007 and it allows forms to be published to a document
library and rendered in the browser.

You can also build workflows that use InfoPath Forms Service to render forms
as part of the work flow.

--
Don Reamey
Microsoft
Software Development Engineer
InfoPath Forms Server
http://blogs.officezealot.com/dreamey

 

[S.Y.M. Wong-A-Ton]

I wrote a short piece on the relationship between InfoPath and SharePoint on
my Squidoo lens: See section "How InfoPath and SharePoint work together" at
http://www.squidoo.com/microsoft-office-infopath

It sounds like you need a document management solution, which SharePoint can
provide you with, including the reviewing and approving of documents, which
can be done through the use of workflows in SharePoint. I don't see InfoPath
providing much benefit in your scenario.