Opening a Infopath 2007 browser based form through a link in i.e. a links webpart is done by first opening the form manually, copying the complete URL, extracting the “&Source…” part from the URL and using the URL as a hyperlink. See example below:
I have a form which opens with this complete URL:
http://intranet/eforms/_layouts/FormServer.aspx?XsnLocation=http://intranet/FormServerTemplates/DeclCashSal.xsn&SaveLocation=http%3A%2F%2Fintranet%2Feforms%2FDeclaration&Source=http%3A%2F%2Fintranet%2Feforms%2FDeclaration%2FForms%2FAllItems%2Easpx&DefaultItemOpen=1
After I extract [...]
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Recently I was working on some infopath forms for a customer. At first I had made these forms in my own development SharePoint farm together with all the data connections (.udcx files). I had to move all the forms to the SharePoint farm of my customer. In this post you can find how I managed this and got everything working in the new [...]
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In this post I talked about user roles in browser-based forms. I’ve found a very extensive post on Clayton’s blog (here) about another way of using user roles in forms. Check it out, it is very good.
Also on the subject of webservice he has some interesting posts.
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Something I am looking for for quite some time is setting permissions in Infopath forms (browser based). For example, I am building a kind of timesheet form in which several fields might not be accessible by the users but only someone from the financial services department.
I tried several things until I found this blogpost at [...]
In a Infopath form I was building I wanted to get the Manager name of the person who opens the form but also the Email address of that manager, for later use in a Nintex Workflow. In the comments of Itak Shakury’s post I found the necessary info.
First I retrieve the User information I need [...]
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In my Infopath 2007 forms in my SharePoint site I want to collect some information about the logged in user who opens the form, like first name, last name, department, manager etc.
I found this blogpost of Itay Shakury which helped me a lot.
If you receive security errors please read this post of Jingmei Li.
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At the moment I am designing some forms for a customer. To let all forms have the same design and layout I use reusable form template parts.
Look at this post for a detailed description how to use this parts.
I blog about this error just as reminder for myself (and hopefully you also think it is helpfull). At the moment I’m building Infopath 2007 forms for a customer and I want to read from a database that is on a SQL server. At the database I made a SQL account to connect with and [...]
