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Teched 2011 : Killer Real World PowerPivot Examples

This year I had the priviledge in presenting at the Tech-Ed Africa Conference for Microsoft for the 4th year running.. One of the sessions I presented was killer real world powerpivot examples. The session was origanally done by a “crazy” Australian ,Grant Paisley from Angry Koala, at the...

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InfoPath, SharePoint and Business Processes – Part 2

Posted by Kevin Coetzee | Posted in General, InfoPath 2007, Sharepoint 2007 | Posted on 03-09-2009

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Part 2 – The Conversion

In Part 1 of the series we really spoke about the process of wanting a simple way of implementing a Business Process such as the Leave process. In this part we’ll start by converting the already designed Leave form which is in word into an InfoPath form. We’ll also talk through the InfoPath environment and how from a Business User perspective, you can make a form fairly dynamic. We’ll also show some integration of InfoPath and SharePoint as a datasource. As per my Tech-Ed session, my main focus in this part is on the Business User, so I’ll do everything without coding. In a later part I’ll include items such as reading from Active Directory..etc.