4. Working with Data
Getting Started
In the last two chapters, you learned about some of the basic features of InfoPath Designer that allow you to add visual flair to your forms and how those forms can be used through both InfoPath Filler and Forms Services. A visually pleasing and well-laid-out form may win accolades from your users; however, a form is not ultimately useful if it doesn’t gather the data in the format you need. In this chapter, you will learn about a form template’s data source by examining the Fields task pane. Now that you know a little about controls, we’ll show how they link to the data source through a mechanism called data binding. Recall that the data source is the behind-the-scenes XML that is created as users fill out ...
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