The Customize Form button in the List Settings page lets you customize the list form using InfoPath 2010 (if InfoPath 2010 is installed on your computer and you are running SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise). If this button is not working, your site is not trusted by your computer and that’s why it is not letting you open up the form in InfoPath. Check out the animated image below to see how you can add your site as a trusted site.

If you are new to SharePoint 2010, the v-Article on introducing SharePoint 2010 will help you get started.

What is a v-Article? Check out the explanation here.

A written article can only convey so much information. As they say, an image is worth a thousand words. Building on that saying, my belief is that a video is worth a thousand images. At http://www.SharePoint-Videos.com, we have 174 videos so far (and more being added every week) which total up into dozens of hours of video tutorial based training.

Since our videos are task based (about 8 – 12 minutes for each video), we needed a way to tie the videos together to have it flow like an article. In addition, we also needed a Wikipedia style way of linking the articles together. So we have decided to combine the story telling power of articles with our videos. Each article has links embedded within it to relevant videos. Also, when appropriate, articles refer to other available articles much like Wikipedia does. We call these Video Articles (or v-Articles). To see an example of how a video article works, check out the ones already available on the Video Categories page. More will be coming soon.

On Thursday, June 3rd, we conducted a webinar on How and Where to Deploy InfoPath 2010 forms. In this webinar, it was demonstrated how to use InfoPath in a variety of ways with SharePoint – making list forms, library forms and even rendering it within the InfoPath form web part.

You can watch the recording of the webinar in its entirety by clicking on the Webinar video on this page:

http://www.sharepoint-videos.com/free-sharepoint-sharepoint-designer-and-infopath-2010-videos/

I’ll be presenting the session “What’s new in SharePoint Designer 2010″ today (Tuesday, 6/8) at 1:30pm – sorry for the late notice. The session will be in room 349. The session code is OSP09-INT. In the session, I’m going to be cramming a lot of SPD goodness. The planned topics are Workflows, XSLT List and Data View web parts, External Content Types, Restricting SPD and more if we have time. Since it’s an interactive session, I’m hoping to have a good discussion with the attendees. Also, I’ll be distributing 25 copies of a free SharePoint Videos DVD (first come, first serve). Hope to see you there!

Come stop by the SharePoint / Office TLC (yellow) booth in the exhibit hall at TechEd to pick up a free copy of the SharePoint Videos Demo DVD.

There are limited quantities of the DVDs available. If you don’t see any at the SharePoint 2010 booth, they will be replenished at around 3pm today (Tuesday, 6/8).

I was notified today that my profile was highlighted on TechNet as a featured SharePoint MVP:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ff400167.aspx

Thanks Microsoft

The InfoPath 2010 Video page is now ready. We now have 13 videos already on the page and more to come in the future. Check it out here:

http://www.sharepoint-videos.com/infopath-2010/

Topics include the following:

• Introduction to InfoPath 2010
• Converting Microsoft Word documents to InfoPath 2010
• Enhance InfoPath 2010 form with Rules (Validation, Formatting and Action Logic)
• Use cascading drop-downs in InfoPath to display parent-child information
• Create a SharePoint List form using InfoPath
• Publish InfoPath form through a site Content Type
• Fetch data from Databases and SharePoint Lists into InfoPath form
• And more…

Among the multitude of conferences that cover SharePoint, there is one which focuses on the Best Practices in SharePoint. Now that is a definite big plus in my mind since there are so many ways to build solutions the wrong way in SharePoint . Mindsharp and Summit7 systems are the ones putting together this conference in Washington DC, Aug 24 – 27, 2010.

I’m planning on presenting the following subjects at this conference:

How and where do I deploy my InfoPath 2010 forms to get the most bang for the buck?

Creating SharePoint List Forms – When to use InfoPath 2010 or SharePoint Designer 2010

In addition, I’ll be participating in the Ask the Experts session as well. Hope to see You there!

On Thursday, May 13th, we conducted a webinar on Making the Best use of SharePoint Designer 2010. In this webinar, I started with an explanation of why you would want to use SPD 2010 instead of the browser to create your site components. Then I dug deeper into showing how you can create powerful workflows. Then the last thing I demonstrated was how easy it is to fetch data from a database and show on a SharePoint page. Along the way, there were many good questions that attendees asked and I attempted to answer as many as I could in the allotted time.

Due to overwhelming request, we decided to record the webinar and make it available to everyone. You can watch the recording in its entirety here:

http://www.sharepoint-videos.com/sp10-webinar-make-the-best-use-of-sharepoint-designer-2010/

This webinar recording will be available for everyone until May 26th. It will then be moved to the subscribers only area.