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Hello World: Creating your first SharePoint mobile workflow form

This demo creates a very simple workflow form that allows mobile users on iPad or Android to “send” an InfoPath form back and forth to each other with changed content. The reason “send” is in quotes? Nothing really moves from one user to the other …
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Posted on: 05-8-2012 Posted in: Formotus Cloud Console, General, InfoPath, SharePoint, Tips, Tricks and Training
Collaborate without Complexity: SharePoint mobile workflow forms for iPad, iPhone and Android

Formotus released a new version of its mobile business application platform with enhanced SharePoint integration and new mobile workflow capabilities. The growing ubiquity of SharePoint makes it an ideal anchor-point for mobile workflow and dispatch software on iPad, iPhone, and Android tablets and smartphones. Formotus …
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Posted on: 05-2-2012 Posted in: Formotus news, Mobile Industry
Tech tip: Using email to submit forms to SharePoint

Configure SharePoint 2010 to receive incoming email Note: SharePoint Online (Office 365) does not support email submit. If you need to configure Central Admin to enable libraries to receive email, find instructions here. Publish your InfoPath form to a SharePoint library. Open the library where …
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Posted on: 04-19-2012 Posted in: General, InfoPath, SharePoint, Tips, Tricks and Training
New Formotus platform training now offered by partner Forms on Fire

Forms on Fire, a Formotus authorized training and consulting partner, recently announced availability of their new introductory class “Formotus Essentials.” The online class runs two and a half hours and for the time being is offered at no charge. This class is intended for new …
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Posted on: 04-15-2012 Posted in: Formotus Cloud Console, Formotus news, General, InfoPath, Tips, Tricks and Training, UI Design
Advanced workflow and collaboration forms for iPad and Android

[Updated March 31, 2012 with new screenshots] Formotus forms are already a powerful platform that lets you create mobile applications without coding, deploy one design across platforms, work offline on mobile devices, connect directly to your data storage (Formotus never hosts your data), and include …
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Posted on: 03-31-2012 Posted in: Formotus news, General, Mobile Industry
How to make InfoPath dial your phone and perform other mobile feats

The following InfoPath template parts are provided free for your convenience to enable handy mobile-oriented functions within your forms. They are tested and known to work on the Formotus platform, but they may also prove useful in browser-based forms or on laptops running InfoPath. For …
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Posted on: 03-28-2012 Posted in: General
Dispatch, workflow, collaboration: Control and empowerment when mobilizing business processes

We’re getting ready to roll out a new feature on our mobile application platform, and it has me thinking about workflows. The scenario that originally inspired the feature was dispatching mobile workers to job sites. Dispatch as a simple workflow A dispatch scenario is a …
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Posted on: 03-21-2012 Posted in: General, Tips, Tricks and Training, UI Design
Tech Tip: How to show the Views pane in InfoPath 2010

If you used InfoPath 2007 you might find yourself missing the Views pane in InfoPath 2010. If you started with InfoPath 2010, you don’t know what you’re missing. It’s so handy to easily switch views no matter what tab you find yourself on. The good …
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Posted on: 03-7-2012 Posted in: InfoPath, Tips, Tricks and Training
Figuring the costs of using paper forms

Everyone knows using paper forms is an outdated, inefficient and costly way to do business. But it’s not easy to find hard data to support calculations of return on investment (ROI) for switching to paperless processes. Unsubstantiated claims about the cost of paper forms There …
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Posted on: 03-2-2012 Posted in: General, Mobile Industry
Figuring the costs of custom mobile business app development

(Updated May 7, 2012) General app development costs Forrester Research took an early stab at estimating the cost of developing an iPhone app, and said most apps take at least six months of full-time work and cost between $20,000 and $150,000 to develop. That’s a …
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Posted on: 02-21-2012 Posted in: General, Mobile Industry