Beginning InfoPath™ 2003

Chapter 17. Working with InfoPath and Windows SharePoint Services

One of the major features of InfoPath is that is it is a collaborative product, dealing with data from various sources including databases, XML, and Web services. You have seen how to use this feature throughout the book. Now get ready for another major collaborative feature of InfoPath: The ability to take advantage of integrating your InfoPath form with Microsoft's collaborative technology called Windows SharePoint Services.

Windows SharePoint Services enable companies to create collaborative Web sites that can be used for a number of different purposes that will be covered in this chapter. In this chapter you will:

• See what Windows SharePoint Services are all about.

• Take a look at a SharePoint Web site.

• Learn about creating your own SharePoint Web site.

• Look at ways to use InfoPath and SharePoint.

• Publish an InfoPath form to a SharePoint site.

• Fill in an InfoPath form based on a SharePoint site.

• Add a SharePoint Web component to your InfoPath document library.

To perform the tasks in this chapter, you have to have access to Windows SharePoint Services, which instalsl on Windows Server 2003. If you have a Windows 2003 Server you can use, then download Windows SharePoint Services from the following link: www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/techinfo/sharepoint/wss.mspx.