Programming Experience Level with this product

E

elyse

Hello,

Q-1: We have 170 fillable forms located in Novell's InForms software. The
extension of the objects are (WPF). Is WPF a WordPerfect form?

Q-2: I'm interested in re-creating these (.WPF) fillable forms using
InfoPath. These forms will only be fillable forms that can be printed. And
I'd like to create a menu where endusers may select the form that they would
like to view/fill in. However,
my programming skills are not that of an expert. The most programming that
I've ever done was some VBA. Are expert level programming skills required to
re-create fillable and printable forms using InfoPath?
 
K

Kalyan Reddy

Hi Elyse,
You dont require expert programming skills just to create Fillable forms and
printable forms.
You can start building your forms with the Controls available.
 
A

Adam Harding

I am not a programmer either and yet in six months i have developed workflows
and repeating cascading lists and all sorts of complicated stuff i never
would of dreamed of.

Infopath is more like a DTP product in the look and feel and is quite
intuitive to understand and especially to fill in.

On Office's main site are some good training materials that can get you
started and explain what controls, views, fields and roles are which will
soon get you on your way.

Best place to start is to install infopath and look at how the sample forms
are put together. Then start with a black form and open the controls tab.
Make sure the tick box at the bottom of the tab is ticked called
Automatically Create Data Source. Then you can forget about that for the
time being.

Drag different controls onto the form like text boxes, drop-down list boxes
and then click on PREVIEW FORM to see how the user will interact with the
form.

Experiment a bit more and then start looking at Rules, conditional
formatting and validation.

Rules can do things like set a value, show a message, send an email etc
based on a trigger if you want. EG if Value is over £100 then show warning
message.

Conditional format can hide or disable a control based on a trigger, for
example, if Value is over £100 then shade the Value field RED

Validation is used to prevent errors on the form. Ie you could set the
validation on the Account field to accept only accounts with 8 digits. If it
is shorter or longer then it won't let them print the form, that type of
thing.

I hope this helps

Cheers Adam
 
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