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Category Archives: InfoPath

Webcast recording on Migrating Notes Applications to SharePoint with Fewer Development Resources

3 Comments Posted by on December 5, 2011

Last week I recorded a webcast with SharePoint Technical Strategist Ira Fuchs from Microsoft.  We talked about fully leveraging the awesome “declarative development” capabilities in SharePoint and InfoPath for rebuilding complex Notes applications.   75% of the presentation was about the concepts in Ira’s book for “Creating Enterprise Class Applications in SharePoint without Code”.  The rest [...]

Design Migration, InfoPath, Training

Migration basics: Migrating to Document Libraries

4 Comments Posted by on July 25, 2011

From the perspective of a migration specialist, a library is very similar to a list. The main difference is that in a library, each “document” is an actual binary file with various data properties associated with it. Therefore, migrating a Notes database to a SharePoint document library could be as simple as extracting binary file [...]

Document Libraries, Document Sets, Domino.Doc, InfoPath, PDF, Tech Notes, Word

Choosing the Type of InfoPath Form to Use in an Application

Leave a Comment Posted by on July 6, 2011

Attention all application migration personnel!  Please read this white paper by Microsoft SharePoint Technical Specialist Ira Fuchs:  InfoPath 2010 Enhanced Integration with SharePoint Server 2010 and Its Implications When Designing Forms for Applications.  This paper does an excellent job describing how the new InfoPath List Forms and how they relate to the “classic” XML Document-based [...]

InfoPath, Notes Migration Projects

Migrate Properties to Files Alternate Locations

8 Comments Posted by on April 25, 2011

First of all, in case you missed it, Notes Migrator for SharePoint gives you the ability to send images, attachments and embedded objects to alternate folders and/or alternate libraries.  To do this, simply add a Target Data Definition field of type “File” and specify the “Alternate Library” and/or “Alternate Folder” property.  Then anything you map [...]

Document Libraries, InfoPath, Metadata, Notes Migrator for SharePoint, Pages, PDF, Tech Notes, Word

Getting Started with Migration to InfoPath List Forms

2 Comments Posted by on April 7, 2011

One of the most important aspects of migrating a Notes application to SharePoint is form design.  InfoPath is, of course, Microsoft’s primary solution for building data entry forms for complex business documents.  Many Notes customers see InfoPath as the best choice for migrating Notes forms that contain user-friendly field layouts, non-trivial data validation rules, and [...]

InfoPath, SharePoint 2010, Tech Notes, Version 6.0

Cool stuff in SharePoint 2010 that Notes customers will love: InfoPath everywhere

5 Comments Posted by on January 26, 2011

One of the biggest barriers to moving large numbers of Notes applications to SharePoint is the cost of rebuilding the complex applications.  As covered previously this cost is often overstated and can be mitigated by a good understanding of how to leverage out-of-box SharePoint features and code reuse, but it is still a very real [...]

InfoPath, Version 6.0

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