Forum Discussion
Enabling InfoPath for SharePoint Online
I am more of a PowerApps develloper than infoPath developer. I have to say I am helping a company move from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 365 cloud. I opted to modify their forms using PowerApps and was very disappointed to see PowerApps does not support some basic SharePoint controls such as radio buttons, checkboxes and even large text areas. The radio and checkbox controls were forced into drop-down menues. The multiline boxes were collapsed into one line. With these limitations in PowerApps, I can see what SharePoint users want to continue with InfoPath as sad as that is. Microsoft needs to fix these PowerApps limitations ASAP. In fact, I would say PowerApps is not ready to replace InfoPath at this point. I wish it was...
So one other big problem with PowerApps vs InfoPath. How do you save a great powerapp form as part of a site or list template? You could do this with InfoPath and a form Library... but PowerApps are still weak in support of building real enterprise type apps.
- I agree that MS Forms is can be another option in various cases - if you need the database control, you could create a flow that populates a SharePoint list whenever an MS form is filled out.
- MS Forms as in the simple survey / quiz maker? lol, we need databound controls at minimum, with some basic capacity for logic and code; a business tool. Not sure why they named it Forms, should have been called MS Poll Maker.
Chad WoodwardMicrosoft Forms can be used with anyone and could be a good replacement for some InfoPath forms.
...and external users cannot view/use powerapps forms. Not a big deal for some, but we work on major projects with multiple partners and organizations. Until MS figures this out powerapps is dead to us. If/when they permanently retire InfoPath we would have to jump to Nintex or other.
