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MS Office Forum / General MS InfoPath Questions / October 2007User Drawing Area In InfoPath
We currently use Excel to pass a good deal of data from offices to the production floor. While most of this, say 80%, is just text type data, the rest is visual. In Excel, our people insert images from clients and then use the Excel drawing tools like lines and arrows, to show its relative position to other items. This requirement seems to keep us locked into Excel. I used form controls inside Excel to streamline this as much as possible. However, Excel just isn't that great at handling forms. Infopath seems like a perfect solution. I just need to know if you can have a drawing area on a form where the user could place images and use drawing tools like in Excel. If so, does this require very advanced programming experience? I have written some VB code and used forms controls in Excel. I have also written a few simple databases in Access and SQL server express. Thanks for your help! There are a couple different ways to possibly architect an Infopath Solution. Infopath would be a better form than Excel as you said. You can have images in Infopath. They have a control for attaching and displaying the images in your form. With Tablet PC you can ink on top of the images, I have worked on a couple different solutions with this. I believe now with Vista, since the inking is included, that you could get this same functionality. This would just be drawing on the image and making annotations. You would not have the draw toolbar if that is what you were used to. The other option is editing your images in another peice of software and then embedding them in the form if the inking is not pratical or feasible. You can also have your forms and their data saved into a database, this can help security and performance but also gives you the ability to report and analyze the form data. Check out the Database Accelerator for more information. http://www.qdabra.com  SignatureThanks Clay Fox Qdabra Software http://www.qdabra.com InfoPathDev.Com The Largest InfoPath Forum in the World http://www.infopathdev.com > We currently use Excel to pass a good deal of data from offices to the > production floor. While most of this, say 80%, is just text type data, the [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Thanks for your help! That's what I was afraid of. The users are VERY used to the Excel drawing tools and creating a new method or re-inventing the Excel drawing tools both sound like dead ends. Could a blank drawing area in Infopath open another application when clicked and then return the drawing from that application to replace the blank drawing space? Thanks for your help! > There are a couple different ways to possibly architect an Infopath Solution. > [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] > > > > Thanks for your help! Yes you could probably use some code to automate the process and make it more seamless. You may even be able to create an activeX control which included the drawing tools inside the Form. SignatureThanks Clay Fox Qdabra Software http://www.qdabra.com InfoPathDev.Com The Largest InfoPath Forum in the World http://www.infopathdev.com > That's what I was afraid of. The users are VERY used to the Excel drawing > tools and creating a new method or re-inventing the Excel drawing tools both [quoted text clipped - 39 lines] > > > > > > Thanks for your help! |
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