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Using Rules to Format Infopath Fields
Adding colour formatting to fields in InfoPath makes your forms easier to process and fill out for your end users. Formatting is particularly useful if you use the same design principles across all of...
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Promoting People Picker fields
Promoting the People Picker field does not work as immediately expected within SharePoint. When you promote the Account ID or Display Name field the resulting SharePoint column is typically left...
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InfoPath 2013 Quick Preview
The music in this video needs to be muted, but it provides a quick overview of the InfoPath 2013 layout and some new features. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiiGOfobRlU
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Access user Active Directory details via the User Profile Service in an...
Forms should make life easy for users. Anything you can do to help the user complete the form faster will improve the usability and acceptance of your project. Users expect that they should not have to...
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SPC12 Content available online
Although it would be great to attend the annual Microsoft SharePoint Conference reality dictates that paying $3000 for registration, $2000 for airfares and $2000 for accommodation, as well as a week...
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InfoPath 2013 New Features
InfoPath 2013 has been available for a little while now. Microsoft have provided a summary of the new InfoPath 2013 features. It is good to see improvements in Browser Based forms with Microsoft staing...
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Sending email from InfoPath, closing the form, and avoiding "The form has...
Recently I worked on a form for the Logistics Team. The manager wanted an email sent every time an order passed the “Waiting for Allocation” status.Typically I piggy back on a SharePoint Designer...
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SharePoint 2014 Conference Content
The SharePoint 2014 Conference has been and gone for another year, but don't worry Microsoft have kindly uploaded all of the content for us at on msdn.com Previously there has been a charge to access...
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Future of InfoPath - 2015
It seems InfoPath is around for a while yet. Microsoft were hoping to retire InfoPath in the near future, but this decision has been rescinded. Here is an excerpt from their updated blog post. “As...
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Populate a user's details via The User Information List
When creating an InfoPath form and hosting it on SharePoint Online or Office 365 you cannot get access to the GetUserProfileService. This is frustrating as you can get some great information for your...
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