Hey Gang:
I am investigating the possiblity of customizing/extending a soon-to-be-rolled-out Sharepoint application. I am writing to ask any members of Tech Republic’s esteemed user community for guidance in the search for solutions or solution providers.
The solution I am investigating is an Infopath/Sharepoint widget that would allow users to have MS Word-style “track changes” functionality *inside* Infopath forms, rather than rely on tracking changes through Sharepoint’s “version history”. I am looking to develop a custom-coded solution inside Sharepoint or Infopath, or both, that may be able to help us build such functionality.
Does anyone know of any solutions to this, or solution providers? We are running WSS 3.0 on SBS 2003, and will be using Infopath 2007 as front end…
I am wondering if such a solution would take the form of some sort of server component (like a Sharepoint list, MS Access database, or custom web part or service) that stores older form entries, and XML code inside our forms that will analyze any differences stored on this server component — and then render the ‘differences’ (such as comments, edits, who authored them and when, etc.) alongside new form values each time updates are submitted…much like Word does when one enables the ‘track changes’ feature.
I hope to hear from anyone who knows of a solution, or a solution provider. Thanks for reading — and please post a reply or shoot me an email if you can help!
Yours,
N