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cyberpine
Posted: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 2:29:27 PM
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We are upgrading to SharePoint 2010 in the next few months.

We are also looking into using SharePoint Lists on mobile devices such as iPad2.

- Without having to develop forms in Infopath or using Surveys, is there any way we can add some branching logic and smarts to your List forms so that columns can be skipped based on entries?

- Are there any mobile components or features in this or products to enable integration between a mobile camera on a ipad and a picture column in a SharePoint List so that adding a picture to a list is just as easy as taking a picture with the mobile camera?

Thanks.
joe
Posted: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 3:14:54 PM

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Hi,

Depending on how tech savvy you are, a custom mobile app could be easily built to do the branching logic you are looking for. With our out-of-the-box form capability, surveys are the only place we implement conditional logic.

Mobile Entree is browser-based, so it cannot utilize a device camera. I am not sure if there are any apps that do what you are looking for. I would think that some of the native iOS apps can probably, at least, save a picture taken from a camera to a document library.

-joe
cyberpine
Posted: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 3:57:21 PM
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Thanks. Part of the challenge is that it will be an unlimited number of forms that non tech users will create and maintain. They started using some non SP mobile form product on the cloud, but now getting our data down and the fact that it's not secure in our network is a big problem.

If a product like this can't help, What we are now considering is two custom development projects.

1. With 2010 now supporting relational list feature, build a new SP solution that helps manage, wire and intercept forms in a particular set enabling the admin to change form behavior through configuration of the new app. So for example, if user enters FL or CA in state column of parent, take them automatically to another list to collect more information when they hit submit. All configurable by admin, no additional coding and no infopath design work.

2. Is an iOS client application that send pics from the camera to a sharePoint library automatically and sets the picture url location to the mobile clipboard so it can be pasted into a sharePoint list picture column. Something may already exist.

Does the above sound possible? I know it may be a bit amitious, but I gotta believe other shops are running into requirements like this.

Thanks.

joe
Posted: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 4:49:13 PM

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With regard to #1, yes it is possbile but would take up-front coding to create a mobile app that can interpret the forms and logic you are building. In essence, your custom development project would include Mobile Entree as the foundation for the mobile components you are building. You would then use the Mobile Entree API to develop the mobile app that can render your configurable forms.

#2; doubtful that this exact functionality exists out there, although I do think Moprise and SharePlus will customize the client for your needs in a services engagement with them.

-joe
cyberpine
Posted: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 5:02:19 PM
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For #1 we were thinking of an all Web form and event handlers on .net server side driven by some rule table or something. I'm not familiar with the ME platform. Just to get an idea about a possible client solution here How does ME communicate with list forms? via the XML web services interface? In that design, in what format and where would you store these new list rules that will drive jumping around lists?.. for example, if colx of lista contains (FL or CA) send user to listb after submitted. I'm imaging an application just to manage list rules, rather than having to code rules for every list/form.
joe
Posted: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 5:43:34 PM

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A mobile entree application is a .NET class, packaged in a Visual Studio SharePoint project. Anything you can do from .NET, you can access in a ME app.

See these videos for an idea of how this works:

1. Creating your first mobile app
2. Adding interactivity to your mobile app

The mobile apps from ME are served through the browser, so your "All Web Forms" design is preserved. And the same code logic you use in the full version of your web forms, you would implement in your mobile app, so your conditional rules would still be dynamic.

-joe
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