SharePoint Designer (SPD) has been free from Microsoft since April. In those two months, some lines have been drawn in the sand. Some users are of the opinion that it should be completely locked down and not allowed in the organization. Others have the view that it makes everything better. Still others aren’t even sure what value it could possibly bring. It is free, so you get what you pay for, right? Not always!

The Project and Requirements Form does not have to be complex, just gathering the basic information needed. In most cases, the business problem being addressed and the proposed solution are the initial pieces of information gathered. Follow along as we create this form and publish it to a site for use by anyone.

What that really means is that InfoPath is a powerful set of tools that you can use to accomplish all of those things and more. When you combine InfoPath, MOSS 2007 (Enterprise), and SharePoint Designer, you have the ability to create solutions quickly and without writing any code.

This is Part 3 of Laura and Lori On the Go. In this segment, Laura describes a Policy Management System she implemented using lists, site columns, site content types and publishing HTML fields.

This is the second video in the Laura and Lori road trip saga. In the last episode, we left off when the cellphone rang. Let’s see what happened next…