Course Specifications
Course number: 084709
Software: Microsoft® Office InfoPath® 2007
Course length: 1.0 day(s)
Course Description
Information is a key to the success of any organization.
Gathering and sharing information within your organization, with clients and
customers alike, can also be an important task. Microsoft®
Office InfoPath® 2007: Creating InfoPath Forms is a product that gathers and shares information. In this
course, you will use InfoPath to streamline the process of gathering and sharing
information.
Course Objective: You will learn how to use InfoPath to gather and share information
by creating and implementing XML-based forms.
Target Student: Persons with web design experience, forms administrators, information
coordinators, Microsoft Office system power users who need to gather, reuse,
distribute, and collaborate using XML-based forms.
Prerequisites: Students taking this class should have proficiency in
Microsoft Office products, concentrating in forms development and experience
working in a tagged environment (such as, HTML or FrameMaker with SGML).
Delivery Method: Instructor led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.
Hardware Requirements
For this course, you will need one computer for each student
and one for the instructor. Each computer will need the following minimum
hardware components:
- Pentium IV 1.5 GHz processor (2 GHz recommended).
- Minimum of 256 MB of RAM; 512 MB of RAM is recommended.
- 10 GB hard disk or larger if you use Windows XP Professional
as your operating system. You should have at least 1 GB of free hard disk
space available for the Office installation.
- CD-ROM or DVD drive.
- Mouse or other pointing device.
- VGA or higher video adapter and monitor. Recommended monitor
resolution is 1024 x 768.
- Network cards and cabling for local network access.
- Internet Explorer 6.0.
- Sound card.
- Microphone.
- Projection system to display the instructor's computer screen.
For this course, you will need one computer to be a classroom
server:
- Pentium IV 2 GHz processor.
- 1 to 2 GB of RAM.
- 12 GB of free space.
- DVD drive, either local or network accessible.
- VGA or higher video adapter and monitor.
- Network cards and cabling for local network access.
Platform Requirements
- Windows XP
- Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition
Software Requirements
- Microsoft® Windows Server® 2003, Enterprise Edition.
- Microsoft® Office Professional Edition 2007.
- Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2.
- SQL Server 2000.
- Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0.
- Windows PowerShell (for Exchange Management Shell).
- Microsoft Management Console (MMC) 3.0.
- Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007.
- Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007.
- Windows Rights Management Services with SP2.
Performance-Based Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- create InfoPath forms.
- import and export form data.
- customize form layout.
- manage views.
- secure the forms.
- distribute forms.
- manage controls.
- work with databases.
Course Content
- Lesson 1: Creating InfoPath Forms
- Topic 1A: Explore the User Interface
- Topic 1B: Draft a Form
- Topic 1C: Add a Data Validation Rule
- Topic 1D: Test a Form
- Lesson 2: Importing
and Exporting Form Data
- Topic 2A: Import Forms into InfoPath
- Topic 2B: Export Form Data to Excel
- Topic 2C: Export Form Data to the Web
- Lesson 3: Customizing Form Layout
- Topic 3A: Format a Form
- Topic 3B: Customize Tables
- Topic 3C: Insert Graphic Objects
- Topic 3D: Create Optional and Repeating Sections
- Topic 3E: Merge
Forms
- Lesson 4: Managing Views
- Topic 4A: Create Custom Views
- Topic 4B: Modify a View
- Topic 4C: Create a Print Version for a View
- Topic 4D: Assign User Roles to a View
- Lesson 5: Applying Security to Forms
- Topic 5A: Protect InfoPath Forms
- Topic 5B: Restrict
Access to a Form
- Topic 5C: Set Security Zones
- Lesson 6: Distributing Forms
- Topic 6A: Publish a Form Template
- Topic 6B: Publish a Form to Email Recipients
- Topic 6C: Troubleshoot
Publishing Problems
- Lesson 7: Managing Controls
- Topic 7A: Data Source Concepts
- Topic 7B: Customize Controls
- Topic 7C: Bind Controls
- Lesson 8: Working with a Database
- Topic 8A: Develop a Form from a Database
- Topic 8B: Use InfoPath Forms to Add Records to a Database
- Topic 8C: Use InfoPath Forms to Query a Database
- Topic 8D: Populate Controls Using a Database