Article:		Getting Started with Microsoft InfoPath 2003
Subject:		Microsoft InfoPath
Date:		2004-01-07 06:36:52
From:		rhinoguy23
Thank you for the article on Microsoft's InfoPath. The article definitely cleared up a few of the questions I have regarding this product. However, I'm still have questions about the functionality of InfoPath. Can the forms be edited and reused? If so, how? Can the forms be emailed? Does this product work best on an intranet web server, or on Microsoft's SharePoint? If I make a form, and want other people to use it (edit it), what do the other people need to edit the form? I'm thinking in a help desk scenario where people request software or hardware help. Could this product be used in such a scenario? Thanks.

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• Microsoft InfoPath
  2004-02-04 06:57:29  travisowens [Reply | View]
  
  
  The end user MUST have INfopath 2003 installed in order to use yoru form. The form cannot be exported as a HTML form or anything else.
  
  Forms cannot be re-used and if you make a change to yoru database structure, you MUST rebuild the form from scratch (sucks eh?).
  
  Infopath does let you make simply data entry apps in a pure GUI fashion in a mere hour, but as you can see it has some severe shortcomings.
  
  Hopefully MS can fill the database changes problem in the next version (almost makes you wonder if they did that on purpose to give us a reason to buy Office 2004).