Tribute to the "humble leave form" part 7 is out
Hi!
I’ve just noticed that Arno Nel over at SharePoint Magazine has published part 7 of my "Tribute to the Humble Leave Form" series on InfoPath and forms services.
Bye!
Hi!
I’ve just noticed that Arno Nel over at SharePoint Magazine has published part 7 of my "Tribute to the Humble Leave Form" series on InfoPath and forms services.
Bye!
February 12th, 2009 at 10:51 am |
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February 13th, 2009 at 11:41 pm |
Hello Paul,
Great post. I always love how well articulated your thoughts are and the images and humour make it a very enjoyable read.
I left a comment on the SharePoint Magazine post but it doesn’t seem to show up. I just wanted to suggest a perhaps better way of submitting to the form library.
Currently when you submit to the form library it saves it as a unique filename. This is great for the initial submission, but on review, updates, or anything in the approval/feedback process it would create another unique instance of the form on submission. So you can imagine in a typical approval process if the form is declined the user updates it, and now you have two vacation requests for the same time, taking up more resources, potentially confusing approves and users alike.
Instead what I would advise is creating a submit rule that saves the filename to a form field property (in the datasource). This way you can do a conditional check – if filename is blank create a new unique filename, and then submit using that property. Next if the filename is not blank just submit using the same filename. This ensures the filename is unique, but also ensures that only one copy of the file is stored and represented.
Hope this helps you and anyone else working with forms,
Richard Harbridge
February 13th, 2009 at 11:42 pm |
Just in case I did a terrible job explaining what I meant here is a blog post by Hannah Scott where she outlines the same process: http://bytelab.blogspot.com/2008/06/submit-infopath-forms-to-sharepoint.html
February 13th, 2009 at 11:59 pm |
That’s a terrific suggestion but just between you and me, I tend to prefer Infopath scenarios when the form is filled out just once 🙂
In fact (and what I will cover in the future) is I tend to get the form data from the form lib (via workflow) into a list and then do all the slicing, dicing and reporting from there.
But I will now address this suggestion when I get to that point in the series
regards
Paul
September 10th, 2009 at 9:25 pm |
Hi,
I have been reading your articles on the ‘humble leave form’ and have found them a very helpful introduction in understanding how I might automate the leave process within my team.
However, I cannot find any more additions to series 7. Can you possibly point me in the right direction?
thanks
Kieran.
September 11th, 2009 at 7:45 am |
Thats because I haven’t written them yet!
September 11th, 2009 at 4:09 pm |
Do you plan to release any more in the series?
September 11th, 2009 at 4:42 pm |
Yes I am. Sorry for the lull, but in between business and conferences time has been in short supply. Rest assured – more to come!
September 14th, 2009 at 5:58 pm |
Thanks. I don’t want to sound pushy, but have you a time in mind when you might recommence the series?
September 17th, 2009 at 5:08 pm |
October I will get back into this…
September 20th, 2009 at 3:24 am |
Hi,
Maybe you can provide me with some assistance in the interim.
In my annual leave form, I need the employee to select their manager from a list of domain users. Is there a built-in function/web service that will enable me to do this or will I need to create my own webservice? Any help would be much appreciated…
Thanks.
September 20th, 2009 at 9:03 am |
In this example series, I am using a contact list. In real life, we have an app that one-way syncs the user profile store to that contact list
September 22nd, 2009 at 5:03 am |
I am now playing around with custom workflow using Visual studio, but when I add a CreateTask activity to my designer, I can only select ‘workflowToken’ as the CorrelationToken (in the drop-down list), when I really want ‘taskToken’. Is there any reason why?
I know I seem like a pest, so again any help would be much appreciated…
July 27th, 2010 at 4:11 pm |
yappi! that’s a great post for me. That part 7 of my “Tribute to the Humble Leave Form” series on InfoPath and forms services.I like this magazine most.
December 16th, 2010 at 12:41 pm |
Una web muy interesante gracias por la informacion estare atento a nuevos post
February 24th, 2011 at 7:15 pm |
wow great series!!
I am just wondering if you are going to complete this as its been some time since this was posted
July 16th, 2013 at 12:12 am |
Hi I can’t get to any of the parts 1-7.
Link not working anymore.
Please help !
Marco
July 16th, 2013 at 12:13 am |
Links to humble leave form part 1-7 don’t work anymore.
Please help
Marco
July 16th, 2013 at 5:25 pm |
Marco, I am republishing these articles on this site… stay tuned…