R
Raul
Can someone help me? I don´t know if InfoPath is the right choice to help me
solve my problem.
I am new at InfoPath, in fact I've just heard of it this week and I´ve been
reading about it.
This is my current scenario:
The company uses 10 different request formats for financial services. Our
customers fill their request formats on paper and hand it personally to an
agent. From there, the request goes to different processes where the
information is fed to several legacy applications by different employees.
This process is slow, expensive and prone to error.
What we want is to automate this process using electronic forms. We want our
customers to be able to log into the Company's web site where they will be
able to fill any request and submit it to a WebService that will save the
information on a SQL DB. Then the agents can look for any request submitted
by their customers, review and approve it (triggering other processes on the
legacy backend systems). Also the customers must be able to print their
request (only the ones they have submitted). Additionally we know the
formats may change over time, new formats may be added and others deleted.
We are going to code much of this functionality in ASP. But I don´t know if
InfoPath can facilitate some of the problems like the process of adding,
deleting or modifying formats. (as opposed to building a WebForm for each
format we want); or facilitate de printing of formats (without the need of
using Jet forms, Reporting Services or any other printing/reporting
mechanism).
Is InfoPath the right choice? If not, do you know some other technologies I
may use for achieving this?
I know I have to use Office Forms Server in order to use web enabled forms
in InfoPath but I haven´t found information about what kind of interactions
can we have between an ASP page and an InfoPath´s Web enabled form.
Any help is appreciated
solve my problem.
I am new at InfoPath, in fact I've just heard of it this week and I´ve been
reading about it.
This is my current scenario:
The company uses 10 different request formats for financial services. Our
customers fill their request formats on paper and hand it personally to an
agent. From there, the request goes to different processes where the
information is fed to several legacy applications by different employees.
This process is slow, expensive and prone to error.
What we want is to automate this process using electronic forms. We want our
customers to be able to log into the Company's web site where they will be
able to fill any request and submit it to a WebService that will save the
information on a SQL DB. Then the agents can look for any request submitted
by their customers, review and approve it (triggering other processes on the
legacy backend systems). Also the customers must be able to print their
request (only the ones they have submitted). Additionally we know the
formats may change over time, new formats may be added and others deleted.
We are going to code much of this functionality in ASP. But I don´t know if
InfoPath can facilitate some of the problems like the process of adding,
deleting or modifying formats. (as opposed to building a WebForm for each
format we want); or facilitate de printing of formats (without the need of
using Jet forms, Reporting Services or any other printing/reporting
mechanism).
Is InfoPath the right choice? If not, do you know some other technologies I
may use for achieving this?
I know I have to use Office Forms Server in order to use web enabled forms
in InfoPath but I haven´t found information about what kind of interactions
can we have between an ASP page and an InfoPath´s Web enabled form.
Any help is appreciated