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Chapter 39: Using Microsoft Office InfoPath with SharePoint Products and Technologies 1065
In the form template, an OnLoad() event handler checks whether the user is
online, calls a GetMyProfile() method to obtain all information related to the user,
and then programmatically prepopulates the appropriate form fields with this
information.
The illustration of this process is shown on Figure 39-15, as follows:
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1. A user starts InfoPath in the Fill Out Form mode and points to the form template
in the form library on the SharePoint site. Alternatively, the user can click
Fill Out Form on the form library’s page.
2. The form is downloaded to the client computer and put in the local cache.
3. InfoPath opens the form and executes OnLoad() event handler that calls the
GetMyProfile() method of the Profile Web Service on the SharePoint Portal site.
4. The required data is returned to InfoPath. The form fields are populated with
the returned data, and the form is displayed to the user.
5. The user fills out the rest of the form and saves it back to the form library.
InfoPath in
the Fill Out
Form mode
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SharePoint Portal Server
Windows SharePoint Services
Form
Library
Profile Web
Service
User profile
database
Figure 39-15 Prepopulating InfoPath form with data from user profile database
More Info For a working code sample that shows prepopulating an InfoPath
form with the data exposed by a custom Web service on portal site, plus a
detailed explanation of this code, refer to the article “Integrating Microsoft
SharePoint Products and Technologies and Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003,”
located at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library
/en-us/odc_sp2003_ta/html/sharepoint_integrating_sps_and_infopath.asp.