infopath - Comments

[Guest]

Merry Christmas to all of you!

Went through all the Labs available on MSDN - Greatt Stuff.

My question is - Wwat is the advantage using Infopath and webservices
against a frontend in VB or MS Access used on Terminal Services? Are there
any? No sorting, filtering and no user defined functions on a click of a
button triggering an event! Are we reinventing the weehl? Just for XML
(avoiding primitive data like INT, Float, String etc.?
Where is the reporting part left?
How to integrate into logon scripts?

With my Best Regards
Harry Duddek
IT Manager Asia Pacific
Halcrow Group

 

[Arvin Meyer]

My question is - Wwat is the advantage using Infopath and webservices
against a frontend in VB or MS Access used on Terminal Services? Are there
any? No sorting, filtering and no user defined functions on a click of a
button triggering an event! Are we reinventing the weehl? Just for XML
(avoiding primitive data like INT, Float, String etc.?
Where is the reporting part left?
How to integrate into logon scripts?

I've often thought the same thing. I see little, if any advantage when you
have a LAN or TS connection. I believe that the real advantage of InfoPath
is in the area of the disconnected data. You can store information locally
until it is reconnected to the database. You could always do this with an
Excel spreadsheet, and because much of what I do is on a PDA, that's the way
I still do it. But InfoPath puts a form interface to it, along with some of
the advantages a of a "thick" client (like complex validation). You might
get a better answer to this in an InfoPath newsgroup where they have far
more knowledge of the product.
--
Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVP
Microsoft Access
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