I'm experimenting with creating an add-in for Infopath 2007. The documentation is very skimpy. What I'm trying to determine is what kind of actions an add-in can take while designing a form. Most of the discussion and samples are for when the user is filling out the form. Can I, for example, add a new field to the form in the designer? Add a new item to the schema? Move a form field on the design surface? It doesn't appear so, but I can't find anything definitive.
There is no Object Model for the InfoPath designer.
I believe the closest that you can get is the exposed API for the Visual Studio hosting that InfoPath supports; but I don't believe that this will give you the programatic control of the designer that you'd like.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa813327.aspx#office2007infopathVSTO_InfoPathDesignerAPIIntegratingInfoPath2007VisualStudio
Sorry Kevin.
Unfortunatly Bryan is probably right.
And I have tried to make a VS plugin for use with InfoPath development. It is very restrictive and hard to use. Not very effective for quick scripting work.
I have found AutoHotKey to be the best ad hoc scripting tool for use with InfoPath. It doesn't integrate directly with InfoPath, but I have found key+mouse automation to accomplish most of what I have needed.
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We are migrating old SharePoint 2010 On Premise code to SharePoint Online.
Part of the SharePoint 2010 on premise code has custom list forms developed with visual Studio.
Thought of using JSLink for custom forms while migrating the code to SharePoint Online but it seems that JSLink is only supported in classic experience and not in modern new experience.
Is there any way we can develop custom list forms on SharePoint Online with modern new experience? Is it possible with SharePoint Framework?
Note:
Tried by adding forms to list instances on SharePoint Hosted Add In but it targets the AppWeb lists and not the lists on HostWeb.
Well you can use react in modern web part to build any custom form. We can reuse components.
Another option is to use Power Apps similar to info path to design and add validation on list form.
https://abdulazizfarooqi.wordpress.com/
Another option is to use Content Editor webpart and add bootstrap html forms.
I hope it may help u.
Coding in Classic View is the only solution to your query. Once you are done coding in classic, you can switch/migrate to Modern View Experience.
In this way, your form will be visible and lists will also be consumed.
Nope!.. Modern sites are totally different development model So JSLink is not possible but you can use SharePoint framework extension to achieve the customization for the list.
Please follow the link below
JSLink to SPFX extensions
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I have a requirement to develop a custom control for use in InfoPath 2010 web browser forms, I've looked in all the usual sources (MSDN, InfoPathDevelopers Centre, SO etc.) but I haven't been able to find any reference or tutorials on how to do this.
Most of the documentation I have been able to find has been InfoPath 2007 specific and uses Active X for custom controls, a practice which is no longer supported.
In this particular case, the requirement is to add Captcha to whichever forms require it, but I'm expecting similar requests in the future.
Does anyone know of any resources for InfoPath 2010 custom control development, or even if this is supported?
Many thanks
Tim
As far as I can make out this feature is no longer supported, it was previously possible using Active X (so not usable outside of IE) but now that support has been discontinued.
I am a .Net developer and I need to get started with SharePoint 2010 and InfoPath 2010 for a new project.
I believe I don't want too much SharePoint just the basic configuration and how to host an InfoPath form there. For InfoPath I need to know how to design forms and program it using VS2010.
I appreciate if you can provide me with some links/books to get started with SharePoint and InfoPath (with more emphasis on InfoPath development).
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I really need some personalized advice instead of an entire website to surf. I will be totally lost like this.
As John alluded to - the path to learning really depends on your project needs.
My recommendation would be to learn InfoPath first. You don't need SharePoint and you don't even need Visual Studio to utilize the majority of InfoPath. You might be able to accomplish your goals right there without even delving into anything else.
If that is not enough start looking at the other things. You will need advanced programming (Visual Studio) if you are trying to customize the form experience for the user, adding functionality that is not available directly in InfoPath. Start looking down this path if you run into roadblocks with how you want your InfoPath form to work.
You will need SharePoint if you need a delivery mechanism, forms storage, tracking for the users. Start looking down this path if the forms start being complicated to manage on a file share (or if you need extra functionality like change tracking etc).
In general - start with Infopath and progress to the other things based on your needs. Programming is for the form (singular) experience, SharePoint is for the forms (plural) experience. Note also that they are not mutually exclusive - usually you end up needing both.
I've been brought in as an intern to develop a SharePoint site. My team won't authorize the budget for Visual Studio and I don't have physical or remote access to the SharePoint server (running Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 a.k.a. WSS) on the back-end.
So what exactly can I do? I'm familiar with web technologies like PHP, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. However, since the environment is SharePoint, I'm stumped trying to figure out how much control I have with Microsoft's definition of "Full Control".
If I can write some C#, I'm pretty sure that would be sufficient, but as I said no Visual Studio for me.
Any good ideas of features that people will use on a site built with the limited functionality of WSS and SharePoint Designer with "Full Control"? Can I somehow manipulate the default Web Parts into something cool or useful? Are there Ajax tricks I can do to accomplish something on the back-end?
Thanks in advance, I'm new to StackOverflow and eager to get involved here!
You can actually accomplish a LOT in SharePoint outside of a custom .NET solution. Some recommended learnings are:
JavaScript/jQuery - Know how to interface with a WebService using jQuery. SharePoint exposes a number of very useful WebServices in the /_vti_bin directory. Click here for a list: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms479390.aspx. For example, I recently built a scrolling slide-show webpart entirely using jQuery and SharePoint's built-in webservices that pulls from a provided picture library.
DataForm Web Parts. Do some searching around on what these are and how they work in SharePoint. The tl;dr of these is that they're databound webparts that are bound to an SPDataSource and then rendered using XSLT to format the bound data. You can work with these in SharePoint designer, completely through the markup of your aspx page.
Do some searching on "customizing sharepoint list forms." The NewForm, DispForm and EditForm of any list or library can be customized to have behaviour or content added to them.
Those are just off the very top of my head...
EDIT:
I forgot to also mention http://www.muhimbi.com/Products/SharePoint-Infuser-%28Free%29.aspx
I've been meaning to check this out, since the concept is sound. I haven't tried it out myself but it will save you a lot of hassle when it comes to adding custom script that encompasses your entire site.
I'm reading Professional Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Workflow Programming.
This book provides some detailed info on how SharePoint works, but not the procedures to create workflow.
I wonder how to create a ASP.NET association form (instead of InfoPath form).
Thanks in advance!
You might want to have a look at http://www.codeplex.com/wss3workflow
This project provides some templates for creating an assoication form. Even if you don't continue to use them, they might help you learn how to create them.