The audience for Professional InfoPath 2003 is the professional corporate developer with programming experience. This can include Word, Access, and Excel VBA developers and corporate XML programmers. This is purely a corporate market as Microsoft plans to only distribute InfoPath to the large corporate Office license customers, who incidentally, make up the vast majority of Office licensees.

Contents

Introduction.
Chapter 1: About InfoPath.
Chapter 2: Form Template Architecture.
Chapter 3: Key Form Elements.
Chapter 4: Meta Data Elements.
Chapter 5: Integrating Secondary Data Sources.
Chapter 6: Adding Business Logic.
Chapter 7: Back-End Services.
Chapter 8: Component Types and Controls.
Chapter 9: Upgrading Forms.
Chapter 10: Security.
Chapter 11: Customizing Forms.
Chapter 12: Introducing the Case Study.
Chapter 13: Input Data Structures.
Chapter 14: Implementing the Template.
Chapter 15: ADO Scripts for Rates.
Chapter 16: ADO Scripts for Posting.
Chapter 17: Output Data Structures.
Appendix A: InfoPath XSF Schema.
Appendix B: InfoPath Form Definition Reference.
Appendix C: InfoPath Object Model Reference.
Appendix D: References.
Glossary.
Index.

Ian Williams (Surrey UK) received his education through the armed forces technical education. His professional experience includes more than 10 years in commercial publishing and more than 10 years in the software industry. For the last 5 years he has been an independent designer and technical writer with recent projects including XML documentation and tools development for Nokia and Reuters. He evaluated XDocs beta 1 (now InfoPath) for some documentation tasks at Reuters and is currently working with InfoPath for metadata and topic map application