Using Infopath with Access

[kewpaloop]

Im new to this Infopath program... my boss wants to use a infopath form to
provide a sales quote... and wants to link it to access.. Is this option
available? It sounds to me like more of a web based form than a form to use
with access... Is it possible for infopath to retrieve information from
access and show it in your infopath form... or is infopath a input only form?
Please let me know if im headed in the wrong direction and should just make
the form and report in Access??

 

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

An InfoPath form is not an input only form. You can bind it to an Access
database to retrieve information. And while InfoPath 2007 supports web-based
forms, InfoPath can still be used as a standalone client.

To learn more on how to connect InfoPath to Access, see
http://office.microsoft.com/training/training.aspx?AssetID=RC011879111033

And for a list of other Access resources, try:
http://blogs.msdn.com/infopath/archive/2007/03/16/love-access-we-do-too.aspx

BTW, creating reports is not a strong point of InfoPath, so if you want
reports, I'd suggest to stick with Access.

 

[pharoz]

Im new to this Infopath program... my boss wants to use a infopath form to
provide a sales quote... and wants to link it to access.. Is this option
available? It sounds to me like more of a web based form than a form to use
with access... Is it possible for infopath to retrieve information from
access and show it in your infopath form... or is infopath a input only form?
Please let me know if im headed in the wrong direction and should just make
the form and report in Access??

Check out this link.

http://blogs.msdn.com/infopath/archive/2007/03/16/love-access-we-do-too.aspx

Access and Infopath should work hand-in-hand.