July 2006 Entries
During one of my TechReady3 instructor-led lab sessions yesterday, an attendee asked if it were possible to use variables in a Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 workflow. That same question had been asked previously by a customer hoping to resolve localization and maintenance issues related to string values. The answer to the question is yes...
posted @ Thursday, July 27, 2006 11:28 AM | Feedback (16)
Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 supports parameters for browser forms. This functionality can make form solutions more dynamic and requires only a small amount of code. Within the Loading event of the form template, the TryGetValue method is needed for each parameter value that is being passed. Then, the appropriate fields in the form file can be set accordingly...
posted @ Monday, July 24, 2006 11:35 AM | Feedback (6)
The much-hyped building permit application solution, which was featured in John Peltonen's Tech•Ed 2006 demo and will be presented as an instructor-led lab later this month at TechReady3, includes a feature that has not been discussed in great length but has been sought after by developers for a long time. The feature, having a Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 form hosted in a custom Web page, is used at the beginning of the demo—when the applicant first provides building project information...
posted @ Friday, July 14, 2006 10:22 AM | Feedback (0)
This is the sixth and final installment in a series about the building permit application, an end-to-end solution built entirely with the 2007 Microsoft Office release. The previous post described how to enable form conversion for archiving in a SharePoint document library. This post focuses on key performance indicators (KPIs)…
posted @ Wednesday, July 05, 2006 10:19 AM | Feedback (7)