CHAPTER 3Tour of the InfoPath Designer

This chapter will tour the InfoPath designer, cover some of the basics, and generally try to fully cover all the design features of InfoPath. It will cover some basic design concepts and tour the InfoPath form designer features. This is the entry point for building everything from basic data entry forms to powerful enterprise e-forms.

Introduction to InfoPath Form Design

InfoPath forms are all XML-based. Understanding this is critical in designing forms, as it will help explain some of the form behaviors that you should take into consideration while you are laying out a form. The form definition is a schema, whether the form is designed against an arbitrary schema or a blank form is laid out (in which case ...

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