Does anyone work with InfoPath at the professional level?

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

I am starting to use the program for more and more, and I was just wondering if there was someone that uses the program for professional purposes. I would just love to see what a professionally developed form looks like anyway.

Just a thought or try. 🙂

 

[Aikouka]

Yes and I hate it.

 

[Pacemaker]

I've made quite a few forms for the company I work for using infopath. It's not nearly what it should be, but it gets the job done and accomplishes what they want it to do (eliminates paper running).

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Originally posted by: Aikouka
Yes and I hate it.

🙂 Sorry. What format or method do you prefer?

 

[Aikouka]

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
🙂 Sorry. What format or method do you prefer?

To be as obscure as possible out of necessity, something that doesn't unnecessarily complicate what I'm trying to do.

 

[Pacemaker]

Originally posted by: Aikouka

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
🙂 Sorry. What format or method do you prefer?

To be as obscure as possible out of necessity, something that doesn't unnecessarily complicate what I'm trying to do.

Really Microsoft should have built libraries to handle Infopath instead of having you use the default XML manipulation. Unfortunatly, there really isn't another tool (that I have found) that does what Infopath does.

 

[Aikouka]

Originally posted by: Pacemaker
Really Microsoft should have built libraries to handle Infopath instead of having you use the default XML manipulation. Unfortunatly, there really isn't another tool (that I have found) that does what Infopath does.

Well, I still want to be vague, but it helps everything be uniform and forces things (as much as they can...) to follow the guidelines. The problem is that Infopath is slow and if you do things such as add new sections in dynamically, trying to select a bunch, copy, then try to paste, it may not have even copied! You can tell when I'm working in Infopath if you hear me slam on the keyboard a bunch of times, because I'm actually hitting CTRL+C to copy something as it takes like 5 times to hopefully guarantee that it goes through.

It can be good for following a standard, but I'm a big stinker when it comes to wasting time and I feel that Infopath wastes my time. I created some psuedo-code language that could be translated into the XML that Infopath makes and it took me about 15-20 seconds to create the same thing that it took me 10 minutes to do in Infopath. That is the reason why I find it completely worthless for what I do.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Originally posted by: Aikouka

Originally posted by: Pacemaker
Really Microsoft should have built libraries to handle Infopath instead of having you use the default XML manipulation. Unfortunatly, there really isn't another tool (that I have found) that does what Infopath does.

Well, I still want to be vague, but it helps everything be uniform and forces things (as much as they can...) to follow the guidelines. The problem is that Infopath is slow and if you do things such as add new sections in dynamically, trying to select a bunch, copy, then try to paste, it may not have even copied! You can tell when I'm working in Infopath if you hear me slam on the keyboard a bunch of times, because I'm actually hitting CTRL+C to copy something as it takes like 5 times to hopefully guarantee that it goes through.

It can be good for following a standard, but I'm a big stinker when it comes to wasting time and I feel that Infopath wastes my time. I created some psuedo-code language that could be translated into the XML that Infopath makes and it took me about 15-20 seconds to create the same thing that it took me 10 minutes to do in Infopath. That is the reason why I find it completely worthless for what I do.

Interesting. I am currently using InfoPath and OneNote to maintain lists of information for personal use. I wish I could do some scripting in OneNote--I have yet to find a single book on the subject of OneNote 2007 though. But for now I'm working on learning InfoPath better.

 

[UCJefe]

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo

Interesting. I am currently using InfoPath and OneNote to maintain lists of information for personal use. I wish I could do some scripting in OneNote--I have yet to find a single book on the subject of OneNote 2007 though. But for now I'm working on learning InfoPath better.

OneNote Developer Portal has some videos, articles, and reference to the COM extensibility API. Granted there is not a lot of documentation but there are enough code samples to hopefully get you going if you're interested. You should also at some of the blogs linked from that page for more info.

 

[Evadman]

I really like the premise of infopath. I spent a while working with it, but in the end, I could do what I needed much faster without using infopath, and they ran must faster. I think in a few more generations it will be a process to be reckoned with.