OFC311 Developing Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 Solutions: Technical Drilldown Part 1 Tudor Toma Group Program Manager Office Microsoft Corporation

Customer challenges inefficient data gathering process Custom data gathering solutions can be expensive Data is hard to reuse across business processes Addressed by InfoPath User-friendly environment for entering data Easy and rapid design of rich “forms” Built natively on top of XML InfoPath 2003 Vision “Enable information workers to easily gather and re-use information as part of a business process.”

Today’s Topics InfoPath 2003 Platform Services The Manifest File XML Structural Editing Data Validation Multiple Views Task Pane

Today’s Topics InfoPath 2003 Platform Services  The Manifest File XML Structural Editing Data Validation Multiple Views Task Pane

Form Template.XML Manifest(XSF) Views(XSLT) Schema(XSD) DefaultData(XML) Business Logic (JS, DLL) InfoPath Form Template (XSN) URL or URN

Manifest File

XML Structural Editing Building an XML Document demo demo

Today’s Topics InfoPath 2003 Platform Services The Manifest File  XML Structural Editing Data Validation Multiple Views Task Pane

XML Structural Editing Building an XML document salesReport customers customer items item actions customer items item

XSF – Structural Editing …

XML Structural Editing InfoPath Form = sections of data Sections may be Optional Repeating Replace with Contextual UI Form always valid per schema Adding/removing sections =XML tree operation

Today’s Topics InfoPath 2003 Platform Services The Manifest File XML Structural Editing  Data Validation Multiple Views Task Pane

Data Validation Schema-based, Declarative, Script-based demo demo

Data Validation Developers can write Event handlers attached to events on XML DOM changes DeclarativeConstraint XML Schema Script-based Expressive Power ExpressivePower Complexity UI and programmatic changes must conform to the XML schema Developers can define custom validation rules on any node expressed as XPath predicates

Data Validation Declarative constraints in the XSF <xsf:errorCondition match="/…/ Address" expressionContext="." expression="not(contains(., <xsf:errorMessage type="modeless" shortMessage="Invalid address"> Please insert an address

Data Validation Script-based XSF: <xsf:domEventHandler handlerObject="msoxd__item“ match="/salesReport/customer/items/item" /> Script.js: function msoxd__item::OnAfterChange(eventObj) {... }

Data Validation Script-based: DOM Editing Events ROOT items Totals item item totalunitPrice sold Bubbling trace Updated node Xml Tree Editing events item::OnValidate() item::OnAfterChange() item::OnBeforeChange() DataDOM Event Site = item Source = sold Operation = Update OldValueNewValueReportErrorReturnStatusReturnMessage

Today’s Topics InfoPath 2003 Platform Services The Manifest File XML Structural Editing Data Validation  Multiple Views Task Pane

Multiple Views XML DOM XSL-T 1 XSL-T 2

Multiple Views demo demo

Multiple Views Defined in XSF … …

Today’s Topics InfoPath 2003 Platform Services The Manifest File XML Structural Editing Data Validation Multiple Views  Task Pane

Task Pane demo demo Adding a custom Taskpane

TaskPane Defined in XSF <xsf:taskpane caption=“My Task Pane“ href="taskpane.htm" />

Summary InfoPath 2003 provides… Structural editing components that enable complex XML tree operations through an easy to use UI for end-users Declarative and script-based Data Validation beyond what schema-based validation provides Multiple XSL based views on the same XML data tree Customizable Taskpane

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Office 11 Is the Premier “Smart Client” for XML Web Services Data Analysis  Tabular, largely numerical data for calculations and analysis  Data best presented in a grid Content Authoring  Large areas of text or mixed content  Flexible layout and formatting with XML markup Reporting & Storing  Numerical or textual fields  Relational tables in databases Information Gathering  Highly structured, grouped information  Form-like with few paragraphs of formatted text AccessExcel WordInfoPathFrontPage Data Driven Web Sites  Tabular or hierarchical data inserted into web pages  Expanded data reach

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