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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Power User Cookbook

By : Adrian Colquhoun
Book Image

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Power User Cookbook

By: Adrian Colquhoun

Overview of this book

The power of Microsoft SharePoint as the Enterprise collaboration platform is ever-growing; due to the wide range of capabilities it offers, SharePoint 2010 can help transform your business so you can quickly respond to the changes and challenges that you face. For End Users, SharePoint helps you and your team work "better, faster, and smarter". This book will take your SharePoint knowledge further, showing you how to use your skills to solve real business problems. While many other titles might be characterized as "SharePoint Explained", this cookbook contains advanced content that goes beyond that found in other SharePoint End User offerings: it is "SharePoint Applied". It provides recipes walking Power Users through a range of collaboration, data integration, business intelligence, electronic form, and workflow scenarios, as well as offering three invaluable business scenarios for building composite applications. The cookbook begins by providing a comprehensive treatment of SharePoint essentials, while quickly moving forward to topics like Data Integration, Business Intelligence, and automating business processes. At the end of the book, the information presented in the earlier recipes is combined to create three example SharePoint 2010 "composite applications" for Human Resources (HR), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and Project Management. Composite applications are the "unique selling point" of SharePoint 2010 and understanding how to create them is the key to unlocking the business value of the product.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Power User Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating an InfoPath Form for a SharePoint List


You can replace the default SharePoint list forms with an InfoPath form on any SharePoint list. This gives you much more flexibility and control over how you edit and display the data.

Getting ready

This recipe works for:

  • SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Edition

  • Office 365 (SharePoint Online)

You will need a SharePoint List where you want to create an InfoPath form.

You will need the Design or Full Control permission level to run this recipe.

You will need InfoPath Designer 2010 installed on your client machine.

This recipe uses a SharePoint 2010 Team Site with a contacts list added for illustration. You can add a Contact lists to any site using the recipe Creating a SharePoint contact list and connecting it to Outlook 2010 in Chapter 2 of this book.

How to do it...

  1. Open Internet Explorer and navigate to your SharePoint 2010 Team Site.

  2. Select the Contacts list from the Quick Launch menu.

  3. Select the List tab of the List Tools ribbon.

  4. Select the Customize Form...