Chapter 11. Using secondary data sources with forms InfoPath Script Developer Task
Secondary XML documents
Databases
SOAP Web services
In the previous chapter, we learned how to use scripts to perform custom validation and calculation functions on the data in forms.
But the data in a form isn't the only data that's relevant. There is external data in documents, databases, and Web services that can help in form completion, validation, and process integration. In this chapter we'll show you how to work with these secondary data sources.
Skills required
This chapter builds on the InfoPath script-writing skills that were introduced in the previous chapter. You'll also need some background in Web services (see Chapter 19, "Web services introduction", on page 414 and Chapter 23, "Web services technologies", on page 484) and XPath (see Chapter 17, "XPath primer", on page 384 and Chapter 24, "XML Path Language (XPath)", on page 498).
