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InfoPath is a really, really old technology. Why are a lot of companies still using it? I’ve teamed up with Rob Bogue and Mark Rackley, for this informal “Stop using InfoPath” campaign. Microsoft killed InfoPath, wow, it’s been about 7 years ago now? A lot of companies are still crunching along with thousands of InfoPath forms, just waiting… for… what
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STOP USING INFOPATH Tomorrow, March 16th, 2016, I will be answering a list of questions about InfoPath, live on my SharePoint Power Hour show, here at 11 central: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxmTSO9_kLs This old post of mine, InfoPath – Query Specific SharePoint List Data, has accumulated 103 comments since 2011 when I posted it. Also, InfoPath: Pre-populate the People Picker has gotten 79
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This is a topic that I’m being asked about more and more frequently, so that’s a great reason to write a post! There are issues that crop up, multiple annoying authentication prompts, and even issues and errors with MS Office (and InfoPath) integration with SharePoint. The best part about this browser setting, is that it gets rid of your authentication
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STOP USING INFOPATH In October, at SPTechCon, Andrew Connell got several of us together to have a panel discussion on the topic of forms, for the Microsoft Cloud Show podcast. The title is Episode 49 – SPTechCon Panel Recap – InfoPath Is a Dead End: What Form Should Your Forms Take? We discussed the fact that InfoPath is eventually going
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STOP USING INFOPATH This is an interesting solution that we figured out. Here’s what the requirements are: The managers need to see a list in SharePoint of all of the tasks that are assigned to their subordinates. This is a bit tricky, because the manager field doesn’t exist in tasks. Also, I didn’t want to do a solution that would
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STOP USING INFOPATH This is just a quick little fun one. In this post, I’ll show you how to make your radio button text show as bold when that radio button is selected, like this. See, the “Approved” word is bold when selected. This can be done in any version of InfoPath, but these instructions are specific to InfoPath 2010
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STOP USING INFOPATH Do you want people to be able to quickly fill in a form on your site, over and over again? One option for this has always been datasheet view, but sometimes you have a more complex form. In this post, I’ll show how you can create a button that will save the current record and immediately go
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