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Thank you for being part of our Qdabra family. Our
quarterly newsletter includes new and exciting happenings at Qdabra
Software.
– set
to launch in late October/early November
Our
most anticipated new release is the launch of our new forms hosting
service. After over 3 years of development, Qdabra is excited to launch
FormsBoard Beta this fall. FormsBoard provides a free library of forms
for the InfoPath community. In addition, FormsBoard offers private
domains and monthly hosting plans for your Internet forms users. No
installation is required, but users must have Microsoft InfoPath
installed to edit forms.
FormsBoard
value:
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Find InfoPath forms for your business - Qdabra's
InfoPath MVPs will highlight the best forms
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Share InfoPath forms with your Internet users - free
domains and accounts for your Internet InfoPath users.
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Test drive Qdabra tools and products for your local
intranet. No installation required.
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Reuse out-of-box InfoPath solutions (form packs) that we
have developed over the last 10 years for our consulting clients
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Create private domain to host your Internet forms
solution. Low monthly rates based on storage needs.
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Scalable service hosted on Amazon Web Services. Our
service expands as your needs grow and move around the globe.
DBXL
- Qdabra's Database Accelerator Web Services
version
2.3 hot fixes - available now
The
following hot fixes have been released for Qdabra's flagship Web
Service Suite (DBXL) since July 7th
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SharePoint Designer filtering for large doctypes for
forms with many promoted columns]
Target
release is now November 2009. Here is a brief summary of the new
features:
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Clustering support – install DBXL on multiple front end
servers with one backend database. Benefits:
o Easier integration with load-balanced environments
o Enables scalability for cloud environments (like AWS)
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Forms Viewer integration – quickly view XML documents in
your Web browser. Benefits:
o View data without InfoPath (for example, from your cell
phone)
o Supports custom “downlevel” views to fit your most
common browser resolution
o Supports displaying images, rich text sections, and many
other controls
o Supports simple submit without XML validation. More
support planned for future releases
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SharePoint mapping improvements – asynchronous submit
improves submit performance
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Event log notifications – get e-mail when there’s a XML
to SQL mapping error
o Sends e-mail to an administrator when any DBXL error
occurs.
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Versioning – make a big change to your schema without
leaving old data behind. Details:
o Create a new doctype to map your new form’s data to same
SQL tables used for your old form
o Old form data opens in the old form template
o New form data opens in the new form template
o Add a convert button that upgrades an old form to open
in a new form
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Offline forms – support e-mailing people who are not
always online. Benefits:
o Supports URN-based solutions
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Workflow notifications – send email from server when
assigning an InfoPath form
o Set triggers based on assignment or due date
o Send recurring “statistics” on active documents in the
doctype
1.
How many are overdue?
2.
Etc.
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Convert images to links – reduce size of XML forms by
converting images to http links
o Built-in support for converting images to http links.
XTP provided.
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QueryDB performance – get the row count of a query
before getting the contents. Benefits:
o Prevents large queries from freezing up InfoPath
o Limit the amount of data you let your users download
o Support “paging” of data
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Active Directory Web Service changes
o Get users in group or domain
o Find users by name or alias
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New qForm template eases integration with Qdabra’s
FormsBoard service
o Requires InfoPath client. No support for browser forms
due to object model and task pane
o Task pane support for simple workflow, history, taxonomy
and “templates”
version 1.8 – released!
qRules
was our most popular download last month. We continue our efforts to
improve qRules for InfoPath forms creators. Here are some of the new
features in qRules 1.8:
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Browser-based forms support
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Better error handling
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Now browser-compatible!
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New commands:
o IsNew
o IsReadOnly
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Changes in existing commands:
o Insert command now allows inserting before or after
o Added Error and Success nodes to qRules schema. Error
messages are now being returned in the Error node instead of message
boxes
o Modified error checking for validating secondary data
sources so that we are able to return our custom error message
o Improved error handling
version 2.0 – coming in October
qRules 1.8 is our last free version. Download it today and take a survey to qualify for a free
upgrade to 2.0. qRules 2.0 contains important new integration with
SharePoint to enable reporting on repeating data and dynamic filtering.
Here are some of the features in qRules 2.0:
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Map repeating tables to one or more SharePoint list
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Dynamically filter SharePoint data using owssrv.dll
queries
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Auto submit to originating form library
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SetValue command for filtering the target field - this allows you to specify the field to set using XPath filters
Blog
highlights over the last 3 months:
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Qdabra Tools
o Qdabra
Vertical Tabs Template Part
o Create
an InfoPath form that switches views
o InfoPath
template parts that inherit color scheme from the destination form
o Configure
the Electronic Signature template part to work in browser-enabled
forms
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Qdabra Web Services
o How
to use QuerySharePoint with data that contains special XML characters
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Conditional
SQL mapping with DBXL v2.3
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How to use the QuerySharePoint Web Service in Repeating Tables
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Qdabra Tips and Tricks
o
Debug
Managed Code in VSTA -- For the Accidental Programmer
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How To Deploy A Form To Multiple SharePoint Libraries
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A mutually exclusive radio button in a repeating section
Thank you for your continued support!
Qdabra Software: The InfoPath Authority - Streamline
data gathering to turn process into knowledge.™
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