What Is Infopath?

Like most people, you probably fill out business forms on a regular basis, including expense reports, time cards, surveys, or insurance forms. You may even be responsible for designing, distributing, and maintaining these forms in your organization. We can use InfoPath to both design and fill out electronic forms.

You can use InfoPath to collect business data from the people whom you work with, including your colleagues, partners, suppliers, and customers. For example, you can use InfoPath to create a form template for expense reports for the people in your organization.

Benefits

Wider access to forms - Share business forms with a variety of users, including employees, customers, suppliers, and partners.
Office system integration - Works withMicrosoft Office Outlook, Microsoft Office Excel, and Microsoft Office Access.
Reusable data - The data that users enter in an InfoPath form doesn't have to remain locked inside that form forever; it can be reformatted or reused in a variety of ways.
Consistent, accurate data - InfoPath includes a number of features that help users avoid data-entry errors and fill out forms more quickly.
Low overhead - Unlike paper forms, which have to be reprinted when a change occurs, InfoPath form templates can easily be modified and republished.
Offline support - InfoPath forms don't have to be filled out while a user is connected to a network.
Fewer forms - Instead of distributing and maintaining multiple paper forms for the same business process, you can create a single form template in InfoPath that includes multiple views.
Flexible controls - These types of controls let you design a flexible form template that accommodates your users.
Tablet PC support - If users have a Tablet PC, they can use a tablet pen (tablet pen: The pen that comes with a Tablet PC and is used to interact with the tablet screen.) to write directly in fields on a form. InfoPath then converts that ink into text.

With InfoPath Forms Services, GeoAge will design a browser-compatible form template that runs on a mobile device. GeoAge will design a browser-compatible form template that is exclusively for display on the small screen. Alternatively, we can create a dedicated view (view: A form-specific display setting that can be saved with a form template and applied to form data when the form is being filled out. Users can switch between views to choose the amount of data shown in the form.) for mobile users in your browser-compatible form template and create other views for people who fill out the form in InfoPath or in a Web browser. In either case, it is best to know exactly which mobile devices you are targeting so we can optimize your design to suit that environment.