Introduction

The recipes in this chapter explore the technologies and options available for creating electronic forms and workflows in SharePoint 2010. Understanding the technologies explored in this chapter is key to building no-code composite applications, which automate the business process.

SharePoint 2010 uses InfoPath 2010 to create rich, powerful electronic forms. InfoPath forms can replace the default forms used for SharePoint lists or act as custom forms that provide the user interface and business rules required to run a custom business process. The first two recipes of the chapter show you how to create, publish, and consume InfoPath forms in SharePoint.

When automating business processes, we automatically think of workflow. SharePoint 2010 supports many different workflow and task-management scenarios. There are a number of out of the box workflows that can be used to perform tasks such as to requesting feedback or approval for a document. Where these workflows don't suffice, they...