View Infopath forms in .aspx webpage

[rjn]

Hi

I'm new to sharepoint and infopath development. First of all, how I can
quickly get started with these technologies. Some good links please?

Currently the forms are developed in infopath combined with sharepoint
teamsite. A few of the clients do not have infopath installed on their
desktops and hence the client wants to migrate a few of the infopath forms to
webforms. The users would login to sharepoint team site, and would see all
the infopath forms under the documents section. The user can fill out a form
or edit the form. Currently when they do either of this, form opens up in
infopath client. Instead they would ALSO want to see the form in a browser
and be able to submit the form to the sharepoint server to save it. Is it
possible to provide a webedit option in the documents window where the forms
are listed? Can somebody offer me a technical solution to this? What are the
webservices/APIs exposed by sharepoint to achieve this? Can I support all the
features supported by infopath like version management, checkin/checkout etc.
using webforms? How do I seamlessly migrate?

One way might be to use the xml/xsl contained in .xsn file and show the
controls in a browser and while saving create an xml file having the same
schema as that of a infopath form and submit back to the sharepoint server.

Any help, code samples is highly appreciated. There is a commercial sofware
infoview.net available which I can't use in my project.

Regards

rjn

 

[Adam Harding]

This deals with the fundamentals of Infopath design, covering

http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/assistance/CH010966841033.aspx

Controls - How the fields appear on the form
Fields - DataSource from Sharepoint/SQL etc
Rules - If then actions
Validation - If then prevent submission
Conditional Formatting - If then hide control/change colour etc.
Views - Different views of the same data for different people
Roles - User groups that determine which views/controls they can see.

When designing an Infopath form it is like dealing with a DTP application.

Specifically the below deals with connecting the form to a sharepoint site
and is a drill down from the above link.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/assistance/HP011093021033.aspx

What you are saying with regards to developing the web forms sounds like it
would work but what i have mentioned so far is the limit of my knowledge.

Cheers Adam