SharePoint Designer

Articles, tips & tricks, and guidance on how to use SharePoint Designer to create workflow solutions that make use of InfoPath forms.

Top 10 questions about InfoPath file attachments

A compilation of the 10 most popular queries about InfoPath file attachments, including using InfoPath attachments with SharePoint document libraries, SharePoint lists, and SharePoint workflows.

Use a custom SharePoint Designer workflow activity to upload images from InfoPath to a SharePoint Picture Library

Learn how you can use an InfoPath browser form, file attachment controls in a repeating table, and a custom SharePoint Designer workflow activity to upload and store images in a SharePoint Picture Library.

Top 10 bestsellers among InfoPath and SharePoint books in 2009

Learn which InfoPath, SharePoint, and SharePoint Designer books were bought in 2009 and read by visitors to BizSupportOnline.NET.

Trick: Create InfoPath forms using a SharePoint Designer workflow

Learn how you can change the settings and default template on a SharePoint Form Library in such a way that it enables you to use a SharePoint Designer workflow to automatically create InfoPath forms in that SharePoint Form Library.

Use a custom SPD action to extract an attachment from an InfoPath form and add it to a SharePoint document library

Learn how you can create a custom SharePoint Designer activity that can be used as an action in a workflow that runs on InfoPath forms to extract an attachment from an InfoPath form and upload it as a file to a SharePoint document library.

Archive or move InfoPath forms in SharePoint

Learn how you can use a SharePoint content type and a SharePoint Designer workflow to move InfoPath forms in SharePoint from one library to the other as a way of archiving InfoPath forms in SharePoint.

Send email from SharePoint based on values in an InfoPath form

Learn how you can access InfoPath form fields from a SharePoint Designer workflow and use a condition in the workflow to take action based on the value of a field in the InfoPath form.

How to retrieve InfoPath form data in a SharePoint workflow

Learn how you can retrieve data that is stored within an InfoPath form either in a SharePoint Designer workflow or in a Visual Studio workflow that runs on that InfoPath form in a SharePoint form library.

5 Ways to submit an InfoPath form to a SharePoint list

Learn which workarounds are available if you want to submit the data from an InfoPath form to a SharePoint list.

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