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jgilmore - 03 May 2006 20:50 GMT

I have never used infopath before and would like to know if it would work for
a project I am working on. If I design a form in infopath, can it be used as
a "database" so to speak, in which it would automatically assign a sequential
number to the form each time a user filled it out? Would I then be able to
take all the forms and search by specific fields and compile reports by each
field?

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Adam Harding - 05 May 2006 15:01 GMT

jgilmore

Once a form linked to a database is submitted it can assign it a unique ID.

In answer to your second question as long as you connect the form to a
database, and add query fields to your "search" form and then query the
datasource you can search on ANY field you have added

Cheers Adam

> I have never used infopath before and would like to know if it would work for
> a project I am working on. If I design a form in infopath, can it be used as
> a "database" so to speak, in which it would automatically assign a sequential
> number to the form each time a user filled it out? Would I then be able to
> take all the forms and search by specific fields and compile reports by each
> field?

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