InfoPath® with SharePoint® 2010 How-To

Chapter 14. Using Template Parts to Create Reusable Form Components

In This Chapter

• Create a New Template Part

• Add Common Data Connections

• Add Common Controls

• Save Your Form Template Part

• Add Your Template Part as a Custom Control

• Use Your Template Part as a Control

• Change the Name of Your Custom Control

• Change the Icon of Your Custom Control

This chapter explains how to create and leverage form template parts. Form template parts provide an easy way to create common controls, fields, and data connections that may be used across multiple forms.

If many forms in your organization require the same data connections and controls, for example, it makes sense to place all the common items into a form template part. Then, you can ...