Infopath 2007 - A new PATH to INFOrmation gathering

                  Do you want to develop windows application for just get information from the user and stored in the database and retrieve the information and make some reports.  That is simply done by you using Infopath without or with minimum programming knowledge.

                  Infopath is software comes along with Microsoft Office 2003/2007/2010.  It is used to develop the electronic form by using drag and drop methods.   The layout are easily develop by a person by using predefined table layouts.  Zero coding in need for simple operations like addition, multiplication....

                  The added advantage is all data saved in XML format so it is easy to portable to anywhere.  Easy to connect with MS-Access, MS-SQL server or any database you need.   Very simple to retrieve the data from the database by using drag and drop.

                   It provide search facility, filters and edit and update at preview mode of data.   The design of the form is totally separate from data.

                  It had rich set of tools like calender controller, multi-selection box,etc...  It also supports to the activex controls.

Behind the Boundary

                   Infopath forms also used in the websites by using Sharepoint Services.  It is mostly used for the form with large amount of fields.  mostly infopath is used in Government offices and banks to fill the form in  long duration.   Example consider a customer entry form had 40 inputs that all are entered by the office at once because that all are in different criteria.   In ASP dot net website there no need to save the partial entered form because the mandatory field is not allow you to save.   So we use Infopath form because it is working at offline also.  We can save infopath form as a draft in our local system.  Then we click submit whenever the form completes.

                    Infopath supported with WebServices.

                    Infopath supported with form templates of Sharepoint.

                    We can develop workflow forms with infopath.
                 

             

                     

MOSS a Perfect Web Content Mangement System

                     Web Content Management System (WCMS) is a tool to administrating and authoring a website from anywhere.  It is enabling the users to create web pages without having knowledge about programming.  It is facilitate to face more than one user to edit single content like Wikipedia.  WCMS also comes along with content database which is used to save the data and the metadata of the website.

 

                     Microsoft Sharepoint Server(MOSS) is a Web Content Management System.  It is the continuation of the Microsoft Front Page.  We can create webpage only with basic HTML knowledge. The author can add or remove and change a content in online from anywhere.

                     Sharepoint comes along with predefined set of group like approver, designer, site owner, viewer  so you are not bother about the providing rights to its users.

                     Sharepoint is Tailer Made that is it along with some predefined templates like Team site, Publishing Portal, Wiki Site, Blogs you just create the sites and use it.   It you want different like for branding your site use Sharepoint Designer 2007.

                     Webpart is one more advantage of sharepoint we can design a webpart and add in n number of times in our site.  For example the Address list is necessary for 10 sites you had code it and check it only once.  The advantage of webpart is customizable at online we can change the width, length and CSS files also.

                      Document Security is perfectly manged by Sharepoint.  It avoids the modification clash for example you had post a word document in your sharepoint site that is opened by developer1 then that document is locked if developer2 will tried to open that document will open in read-only mode.