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

9.6. Defining InfoPath Views

InfoPath allows you to define multiple views in the same form against different subsets of the data. Views can serve multiple purposes including the following:

• You have a very large form and decide to divide it into smaller pages to make it more manageable to those entering data.

• You have a workflow attached to the form and the approver needs read-only access to most of the fields, with perhaps the ability to update a comment field and to accept or reject the form.

• You have different people who work on different sections of the form, and they only need to see the part of the form they are responsible for.

• You have different people who have access to the form, but who do not need to see all the data in the form. Perhaps ...