SPS Designer Class Notes and Links - Thursday

More useful notes and links from the SPS Designer class in Atlanta...

Infopath and forms

- form is a CAB file with an .XSN extension - Trust levels - Restricted - Domain - Full Trust

- To create forms, Infopath must be installed in designer mode.
- There is a framework from MS for importing Word and Excel documents
- To run forms services, enable both Office SharePoint Server Standard Site features and Office SharePoint Server Enterprise Site features in Site Features. Then, enable the same features under Site Collection Features.

- To force forms to be edited in browser, Advanced settings in the library, display as web page.

- If a form is going to be used in multiple locations, publish it as a content type. Then, when the form is updated, all locations where the form is used will also be updated.

Workflow

- Automates business processes

- Waits until something happens then proceeds to next step - Build on windows workflow foundation
- WF Program (template and forms)

- Installed as a feature into farm

- Workflow instance

- Activities

- .NET Framework Community Workflow site

http://netfx3.com/content/WFHome.aspx

- Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation Step by Step by Kenn Scribner

- Shelton Blog - Workflow documents and videos

http://sheltonblog.com/

- El Blanco's Office 2007 Blog

http://chrissyblanco.blogspot.com/

- MOSS provides pre-built infrastructure for workflow. Possible with WSS but very difficult, have to build the infrastructure from scratch.

- Workflow templates (built from scratch) are deployed as features

- In Visual Studio (CTRL-K-B) to bring up snippets for sharepoint

- c:\program files\visual studio 8\xml\1033\snippets\sharepoint server workflow\snippets