I’ve done Infopath all day and found some limitations I would like to share. I’m designing some browser based forms so they have limitations I know off but today I found out about some unpleasant features (at least for me and my ideas how to build the forms). I have not encountered them before.
I wanted [...]
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 [...]
Continue reading about Infopath 2007 howto: open a form through a link
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 [...]
