Indruducing Infopath2003 by Roger Jennins - ROCKS!!!

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Alex Irazabal

This book just saved my butt! The chapter on Master/detail and how selecting a filter removes duplicate entries saved me about 3 day's worth of work!

Kudos to you Roger...
Alex
 
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Roger Jennings

Alex,

Thanks for the kind words on the book.

Glad it helped you out.

--rj

Alex Irazabal said:
This book just saved my butt! The chapter on Master/detail and how
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selecting a filter removes duplicate entries saved me about 3 day's worth of
work!
 
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Alex Irazabal

No sweat. I would like to see more scripting. It's good that you emphasize the tool's capabilities so as to minimize the scripting part, but as you know scripting will be eventually required to customize things like special validation or aggregating multiple secondary sources and so on. One thing I thought was obscure in all the documentation I have seen is the ability to call script using xdExtension: tags. So I still think your book ROCKS, but if you are going to have a 2nd edition or maybe write an "advanced" Infopath I would like to see the scripting side (and integration with Dev Studio, managed code, etc...).

Cheers,
Alex
 
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Roger Jennings

Patrick Halstead, Vani Mandava, et al. have a developer book for MSPress in
the works. (See the left frame at http://www.infopathdev.com.)

Page count limitations prevented covering JScript/VBScript and managed code,
so I opted to cover SP-1 features and provide VB.NET examples in the last
three chapters.

I agree that most production InfoPath forms will need script or managed
code; my preference is the latter.

There are two examples of the use of xdExtension calls in Chapter 17. The
examples are trival (and can be done without code in SP-1), but show the
general principles of calling code from the view.xsl file.

--rj



Alex Irazabal said:
No sweat. I would like to see more scripting. It's good that you emphasize
Click to expand...
the tool's capabilities so as to minimize the scripting part, but as you
know scripting will be eventually required to customize things like special
validation or aggregating multiple secondary sources and so on. One thing I
thought was obscure in all the documentation I have seen is the ability to
call script using xdExtension: tags. So I still think your book ROCKS, but
if you are going to have a 2nd edition or maybe write an "advanced" Infopath
I would like to see the scripting side (and integration with Dev Studio,
managed code, etc...).
 
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