Microsoft 2007 manual Business Processes

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Business Processes

Microsoft Office Forms Server 2007 helps organizations streamline forms-driven business processes with easy-to-use, intelligent, XML-based electronic forms that integrate smoothly with existing systems. This security-enhanced, client/server platform provides rapid-solution creation and deployment, centralizes form management and maintenance, and helps to extend business processes to customers, partners, and suppliers.

Feature Area

Feature Description

Built on the XML Industry

Forms created with Microsoft Office InfoPath® 2007 are based on

Standards

XML schemas that you define to control the structure of the data

Enhanced

captured by the form. A completed form is an XML file that

 

 

complies with that structure, making it highly actionable.

 

 

Browser-based Forms

Microsoft Office Forms Server 2007 makes it possible to design

New

Web-capable forms in Office InfoPath 2007 and distribute them

 

 

on corporate intranets, extranets, or the Internet. Users can fill

 

out forms in a browser with no download or client components

 

needed.

 

 

“Design Once”

Forms designers can design their forms once and deploy them for

Development Model

use both within the rich Office InfoPath 2007 client program and

New

through a Web browser. Office Forms Server 2007 automatically

 

 

converts the form into ASP.NET Web forms, with no additional

 

work from the designer.

 

 

Form Import Wizard

The designer in Office InfoPath 2007 provides an easy way to

New

convert forms designed in Microsoft Office Excel and Microsoft

 

 

Office Word into rich Office InfoPath 2007 forms. The Form

 

Import Wizard handles the conversion of form fields, repeating

 

tables, rich text boxes, and other elements, dynamically

 

generating the underlying XML structure for the new form.

 

 

Advanced “No-code”

The designer in Office InfoPath 2007 helps forms designers define

Form Features

validation, calculations, conditional formatting, and rules

Enhanced

declaratively, without having to write any code.

 

 

 

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