September 09, 2005

Sharepoint + InfoPath = WOW

DAMN YOU CHAD! I don't have enough time in the day to keep up with learning sharepoint as it is. Then you go and impress me in your presentation at SMB Nation on using InfoPath forms to post to Sharepoint.

In combination with web services, I can see how my own organization could use that as part of our onsite data asset risk assessment process with clients. Currently we use a paper form, and then input things manually. I wasn't looking forward to writing a web site to handle this sort of thing in the future as we refine the process. Now I know I can build an InfoPath form and have onsite personel fill it in, sign it with ink, and then submit it to our Sharepoint Intranet. Yes thats right, the InfoPath forms are Ink-aware! We can then query that data and generate reports as needed.

Man that's awesome. I hope I can figure out how to write Sharepoint extensions to generate a "dashboard" report for our assessment process. Now if Microsoft could just fix the stupid security model in Sharepoint on SBS... tie it to the damn security groups already!!!

Posted by SilverStr at September 9, 2005 04:38 PM | TrackBack
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I sure hope hope Chad publishes his presentation online soon. I was just talking to the Western Canada territory manager from Microsoft about something like this recently. I'll have to see if he can get me more information as well.

Posted by: Ken at September 10, 2005 02:45 PM

Chad has posted his slides.

Posted by: Mike at September 10, 2005 03:13 PM