August 2004
Intermediate to advanced
312 pages
8h 30m
English
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Kick-Start InfoPath
The list we just created on SharePoint isn’t perfect. Some of the items in the topic column are inconsistent and the docstring text could use a bit of a rewrite. You can edit the list directly in SharePoint or Excel, but those tools aren’t best suited to editing paragraphs of text or maintaining consistency among entries. A better solution is to use InfoPath to create a data-entry form for the list’s XML.
To see how this works:
From Excel, export the list as XML data (choose Data → XML → Export). Name the exported file ExcelObjectList.xml.
Start InfoPath, choose Design a Form then choose New From XML Document or Schema in the task pane. InfoPath starts the Data Source Wizard.
Specify the file you just exported, click Next, then click Finish. InfoPath creates a new empty form template with the schema generated from ExcelObjectList.xml displayed in the task pane.
Drag the name, introduced, topic, and docstring elements onto the form as shown in Figure 1-24.
Right-click the docstring field on the form and select Text Box Properties. Set the display properties to allow paragraph breaks and wrap text (Figure 1-25).
Figure 1-24. Creating a form in InfoPath
Figure 1-25. Setting text properties in InfoPath.
Click Preview Form on the InfoPath toolbar. InfoPath displays ...
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