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Programmatically retrieve a form template from a SharePoint library.

So an InfoPath form is deployed to a SharePoint server. It gets deployed through central admin and then activated to a particular site collection. This site collection has a forms library with the appropriate content type for the activated InfoPath form. Using the object model, how can I retrieve the form template back out of SharePoint...

How do you change Data Connections with Jscript in Infopath

How can you change the Data Connection of a control in JScript for Infopath 2003? ...

Infopath - Repeating sections

I have struggled with this for 2 days and posted this question at a couple of other sites but with no luck. I am creating a form as follows. I have an "outer" repeating section in which the user enters a work item id and then selects as many names as he/she wishes from a series of drop down lists. When the user clicks a button (also in...

problem with Infopath Form services

I want to have some url for my infopath form and give that link to user instead of going to form library and click new...how is it possible? Also when I created Infopath form I have given some text fields and button, I don't want the Infopath services buttons(Save,save as...) how I cna remove those? Any suggestions would really be app...

Editing repeating table INfoPath Form in form library?

I created repeating table and I added two fields in it.while publishing its not giving me option to edit those properties in my document library...when we generally publish we get the option to edit those properties in document library but its disable while creating repeating table any suggestions how to do that? ...

XPath does not pass brower compatibility checks in InfoPath 2007

Why do the targetField attributes below fail the browser compatibility checker in InfoPath 2007. Is there another way to write the statement so that it will work on Browser Enabled forms? <xsf:ruleSets> <xsf:ruleSet name="ruleSet_1"> <xsf:rule caption="Rule 1" isEnabled="yes"> <xsf:assignmentAction targetFi...

Windows SharePoint Services Workflow updating InfoPath form

I have developed a custom Visual Studio 2008 Sharepoint (WSS 3.0) state machine workflow that is initiated when an InfoPath 2007 form (published as a content type) is created in a form library. A requirement is that the InfoPath form needs to be updated at several points in the workflow (i.e. approvers and dates approved, purchase order ...

InfoPath2007 - Contact Selector - Form tab index is lost after selector resolves names on blur

I'm working with an InfoPath2007 form developed to be filled-out through the browser on a SharePoint 2007 site, and I'm testing using Internet Explorer 7. It's a straight-forward form, with a number of text fields and two Contact Selector controls. The issue I'm encountering is with the Contact Selector control, where if the actor only...

InfoPath Getting SharePoint Group Information

I have an InfoPath form embedded in an aspx page on a SharePoint site. How do I bind the SharePoint user groups to a drop-down list on my form? What I've tried so far is to create a data connection to a web service (method GetGroupCollectionFromWeb) to pull the data. Next, I open the list box properties, select "Look up values from an...

Can I use custom Document Information Panel with SharePoint services (not MOSS)

I know it is possible by using MOSS + InfoPath to create and use custom Document Information Panel. However is it possible to write custom InfoPath XML schema and then add it to Content Type definition programmatically or declaratively... Is that possible? Maybe somebody tried something like that? ...

Infopath forms in standalone application

We want to use Infopath forms in stand alone application. How can we use Infopath forms in standalone application? ...

Optional Fields in InfoPath; Getting the XML node with VB

I use VB to get data through my form. I have some optional fields in my form and I have a problem with the following code: MsgBox(myXPathNavigator.SelectSingleNode( _ "/my:Status/my:Questions/my:Questions1", Me.NamespaceManager _ ).IsNode.ToString) When the optional field 'Questions1' is inserted into the form I get the value 'true'...

WSS 3.0 - Add xml to InfoPath Form Library using standard web service

Maybe it is quite easy but I am new and discovering SharePoint (WSS 3.0). I just created a InfoPath Form Library. It has its standard functionality but I also like to create new InfoPath documents (XML) in this library by using a web service. But here I am asuming a web service will be created for each WSS object (list, Doc lib, etc....

InfoPath browser form call to webservice not refreshing data source

I've created an InfoPath form that consumes a query webservice using rules: on click of a button the form populates the webservice data source with the query parameters, queries using the data source, then populates a field in the main data source with the results. The problem that I'm encountering is that on first click, this works fin...

Infopath Attachment Field; Submit in SQL Server

Hi all, Is there a way to get the attachment from the form to an SQL Server column using VBA? There are some examples about encodind and decoding attachments, though is this the case? Does SQL server support attachments somehow? Thanks in advance, Sun ...

Use a push button to add a section in an InfoPath form?

I'm working on an InfoPath form that's going to be run with InfoPath Forms Services on a SharePoint server. For a number of reasons -- mostly so that the customer can update the form without involving an administrator -- this can't be a form containing .NET code. The form has a repeating group, and we have users who are a bit confused a...

Extract Rules from InfoPath Form

Is there a way to automatically grab the rules, in their original, human readable format from an InfoPath 2007 form (probably the manifest.xsf file, they're not human readable here)? A commercial tool would be fine, even. We're looking to build a summary of the rules as they appear in the design form for easy browsing by a maintenance ...

Remove the blank item from ListBox

Hi all The ListBox/Dropdown list use a external datasource(sharepoint list) as a datasource to populate the items. But there is one problem, the first item is a blank item, can we remove it? Best Regards, ...

InfoPath with SharePoint list

Is there a way to check if a value is already in a SharePoint list from an InfoPath form without code behind? The form is browser enabled so I can not use scripts or managed code. ...

Filling rows of a repeating table on opening the form

Hey everyone, In my Infopath form I use a repeating table. On opening this form on sharepoint I would like to have some rows of the repeating table filled out using information from an other list. I use content types. What i am working on is a Timesheet system where the user can register how many hours a week he worked on different pro...