Office and SharePoint 2007 User's Guide: Integrating SharePoint with Excel, Outlook, Access, and Word

10.5. Building Custom Workflows for InfoPath Forms Using SharePoint Designer

While SharePoint Designer is not a part of either the WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007 installation, nor is it included with any of the current versions of Microsoft Office, it is a great tool for working with SharePoint that most administrators and designers typically will require. While SharePoint Designer can trace its roots back to the days of Microsoft FrontPage, it provides much more functionality than FrontPage. One of those areas of new functionality pertains to the creation of workflows for InfoPath forms published to a web page.

10.5.1. What Is a Workflow?

Let's begin by first briefly defining the term workflow. A workflow is a repeatable process that uses specific resources ...