Microsoft 2007 manual Business Processes

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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