Programs to design electronic forms

I've been asked to put together a project on fileshare management for my company with regard to SOCS compliancy and I have to implement an electronic form system that is compatible with exchange 2003

Any recomendations ?
So far I've been told to use Infopath, any body know whether it would be ideal for this or has anyone had any experiences to share?

Actually this prob suited more to here
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=9
Can someone move it?

neon_glows

im not familiar with exchange 2003 but if its a web type form you are trying to put together then microsoft frontpage or macromedia might be applications you could look into using.

Otherwise if its an application type form you could use visual basic, or finally you could find a computer savvy person and pay them to do the work for you, that way you get a nice looking and functionally end product that will blow your company out of the water,

also nearly forgot to mention the easiest programe of them all to make forms with check out microsoft access.

Capt'n Midnight

depends on what you mean compatible
you can do forms in outlook and store them in exchange , but it won't ever be a database
http://www.slipstick.com/addins/mssampleapps.htm

The forms designer is built into all versions of Outlook. You can launch a design session with the Tools | Forms | Design a Form command. Alternatively, open any Outlook item in Outlook 2003 or earlier and choose Tools | Forms | Design This Form. In Outlook 2007, to design a form derived from an open item, you must first turn on the display of developer commands, and then look on the Developer tab in the ribbon for the Design This Form command.

Every form is based on existing form. The closest thing to a blank form is the post form.

Forms can have VBScript code behind them to react to user actions -- validating data, synchronizing it with databases, creating new Outlook items, etc. To add code, once you're in form design mode, click the View Code command on the toolbar or ribbon.

In an Exchange Server environment, custom forms are typically stored in the Organization Forms library, so that everyone has access to them. They can also be published directly to a folder. Personal forms are published either to a folder or to your Personal Forms library. Only published forms can run code.

If using access watch out for licensing, unless everyone has access it could be expensive.

Fileshare - as in who can see what OR is this to be a document management system OR are you looking at WorkFlow ?

jhegarty

Ms Infopath... comes with office , and compatible with exchange....

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/infopath/FX100487661033.aspx

Who has access and what level etc and it will be linked to a database

I have a full team behind me so I just need to organise this and delegate tasks

Ginger

Use Sharepoint & Infopath forms and they are fine and dandy hooking into Exchange. Also maybe take a look at MOSS 2007 and Forms Server

Because Sharepoint sits on a SQL server and the Forms can used again SQL as well you should fine. As for plugging into Exchange what type of integration are you looking for? We use a lot of the newer stuff in MOSS and have been using Infopath for quite a while for this sort of thing.