Developing Solutions with Microsoft® InfoPath™

Chapter 1. Customizing Sample Forms

In this first chapter, you’ll learn how to use the sample forms that ship with InfoPath to build your first InfoPath solution. The goal of this chapter is to introduce you to the InfoPath forms technology. We’ll create a form from the Meeting Agenda sample to help users organize and summarize meetings. The form captures meeting minutes and action items. We’ll add controls to the form to make it useful in a common engineering scenario—the specification review meeting. You will publish your new InfoPath form to a file server. (Or you can publish it to SharePoint.) Publishing your sample form and then sending a notification e-mail to your teammates are the first steps in familiarizing yourself and your team with ...