Summary

This chapter gave you a good taste of the power and flexibility of InfoPath forms. Although covering an entire application in a single chapter is impossible, this chapter brought you the good stuff, giving you an essential overview of how InfoPath works so that you know the lay of the land when using it. The chapter explained the essential steps for designing a form template, including creating the template, adding layout items, adding controls and setting their properties, adding data source fields for a form connected to an existing data source such as a database, and saving and checking the form template before publishing it.