Eric Richards and Team - First look at InfoPath 12 | scobleizer

wacko

great stuff, but I never understood why people where so big on InfoPath when you can do the samething in Adobe Acrobat for years

scobleizer
I'm the video guy

wacko wrote:
great stuff, but I never understood why people where so big on InfoPath when you can do the samething in Adobe Acrobat for years

I was a top Adobe Acrobat tester, but I disagree that you could do the same stuff. Acrobat was designed as a print-interchange format, not as an XML forms engine. Yeah, one of those was bolted on later, but the two are not the same.

And, look at the demo. InfoPath forms now work in Firefox without an add-on. Acrobat can't do that.

rasx
Programmer/Analyst III, Emperor of String.Empty

Yeah! But I am wary of any SharePoint dependencies for showing forms in Web browsers…

Gberg

ummmm....i think you have an extra clip at the end of this...did someone forget to erase the tape?

scobleizer
I'm the video guy

Yeah, I just noticed that myself. Yikes. It'll be down soon. That was an old Scott Swanson video.

codputer
Don't you know what a cod is?

Wow - the web stuff looks really cool - do we know the price point and licensing requirements yet?

Filip

I'm running a bit ahead of your video's here, but I have a special request for the Powerpoint 12 team. In Powerpoint 2003, they included this really cool feature of drawing boxes, and then making them 3D. It may have been there before, but I only recently noticed it.

There is only one problem with it: when you enter text or an image (which is almost always), and then tilt the boxes, the text/image does not turn along with the boxes.

I can see how tilting the geometric shape is easier, but when I see Avalon tilting items so easily, I really wonder if now is the time to upgrade this feature so that we can all make cool 3D block diagram with tilted text and graphics on it, right from within Powerpoint.

Oh, and if you have time to spare: transparent reflection below, as if it is standing on a shining surface would be cool. Hell, while you're at it, why not just allowing XAML objects to be inserted into Powerpoint, and let us create that fancy tilt with transparency using Expression. But I'll definitely settle for the ability to tilt text and graphics (grouped with boxes, same angle).

EricRi

Hi everybody! We just touched the surface on what InfoPath is and all the great features we're adding based on customer feedback.

Note that you can find the PDC PowerPoint slides on the InfoPath Office 12 topics off of Erika Ehrli blog entry Office and SharePoint PDC slides - http://blogs.msdn.com/erikaehrli/archive/2005/09/19/officesharepointpdcslides.aspx

Specifically:

OFF306 "InfoPath 12": Creating Browser-Based Forms for Enabling Data and Application Integration. This goes into greater detail about the new server features:

http://216.55.183.63/pdc2005/slides/OFF306_Bath.ppt

OFF319 ''InfoPath 12'': Developing Forms for the Smart Client and the Browser. This

http://216.55.183.63/pdc2005/slides/OFF319_Friend.ppt

(you can find more slides, of course, via http://commnet.microsoftpdc.com )

Cheers,
Eric.