Developing Solutions with Microsoft® InfoPath™

Chapter 10. Forms-Based Workflow

This chapter shows how to build workflow processing into InfoPath forms using e-mail and Microsoft SharePoint. (If you don’t have SharePoint, you can substitute a shared folder to store your forms.) Implementing workflow logic in an InfoPath form is a simpler alternative to deploying a server-based solution such as Microsoft BizTalk. This chapter is an introduction to forms-based workflow using just InfoPath; Chapter 11 will address InfoPath support for BizTalk on the server.

In Chapter 2, we implemented a simple workflow example using e-mail, user roles, open rules, and default merge to create a book purchase form. The form included views for requesting, approving, and reporting book purchases. This chapter extends ...