InfoPath 2010 Cookbook 2: 101 Codeless Recipes for SharePoint 2010 is for semi-technical professionals who have already mastered the basics of designing form templates in InfoPath and who are familiar with the basics of SharePoint 2010, but who have yet to start integrating InfoPath forms with SharePoint.
InfoPath 2010 Cookbook 2 extends the skills acquired from InfoPath 2010 Cookbook: 101 Codeless Recipes for Beginners by showing you how to integrate InfoPath 2010 primarily with SharePoint 2010 and secondarily with SharePoint Designer 2010, Excel, Access, and Word without writing a single line of code.
InfoPath 2010 Cookbook 2 covers the basics of designing SharePoint list forms, SharePoint form library forms, SharePoint workflow forms, and document information panels. In addition, you will learn how to work with SharePoint lists to provide sorting, filtering, and paging, as well as how to create SharePoint Designer 2010 workflows that make use of, create, or interact with InfoPath 2010 forms.
All solutions in InfoPath 2010 Cookbook 2 are codeless (without code) and include:
- 3 Ways to sort and 4 ways to filter SharePoint lists.
- Automatically convert an InfoPath form into a simple Word document.
- Query SharePoint lists to retrieve exact, wildcard, and between matches.
- Create SharePoint Designer workflows that create and fill out InfoPath forms.
- Start a SharePoint workflow by clicking on a button on an InfoPath form.
- Create an InfoPath survey form to merge and summarize responses afterwards.
- Use SharePoint search within an InfoPath form.
- Several solutions for working with the person/group picker control.