InfoPath Managed Form Templates Deployment Tool for SharePoint

This tool is an effort towards helping all those who are working on InfoPath Forms with SharePoint. It helps to upload/install, re-install, upgrade a form template with just a click of the button. The tool also can help in generating a script/batch file so that you can run it manually later on. Also, the tool [...]

InfoPath Managed Form Templates – upload status stuck or remains forever in ‘installing’ or ‘deleting’ state

The standard approach to upload any managed form template is to go to central admin and select ‘Manage form templates’ and upload the form template. The process isn’t complete, the ’status’ column should show as ‘Ready’, only then we can activate it to a site collection. Once we upload the status shows as ‘Installing’ and [...]

How To: Choose between InfoPath Browser Forms and Custom ASPX Forms

Choosing between InfoPath forms and ASPX pages, depends totally on the nature of the problems we are solving on one side and level of skill set we are investing in solving that problem on the other side. Usually, in most cases, any manager or developer would want to use InfoPath Forms part of Office 2007 [...]

InfoPath Forms – Minimize and Maximize Sections or Collapsible Sections

Recently, I have been working on a project, in which we used InfoPath extensively for designing various forms. Many of the forms has repeated information which we categorized as Header, Footer, Tracking Details etc. InfoPath template parts helped in this aspect.
Having solved that, the form still looks a little bit huge with many fields most [...]

InfoPath Forms Code Error: Schema validation found non-data type errors

As per Microsoft InfoPath blog this error occurs when we are trying to set a nodes element value and the node has an xsi:null attribute. So, before setting any value check if the node has the xsi:nil attribute and if so delete that attribute. Belowcode snippe is from the same blog which can be used [...]

How To: Access Contact Selector control data in infopath forms code behind and Microsoft.Office.Workflow.Utility not found problem

To access the contact selector we need to use the Contact class for which we need to add this line into our code file:
using Microsoft.Office.Workflow.Utility;
The next question is where does this library sit and how to add reference to it. Well, just as any developer does I too opened up the Add Reference window but [...]

Using stsadm to deploy, upgrade, update InfoPath Forms Templates with Managed code behind

This post talks about using stsadm and batch scripts to deploy InfoPath form with code behind which usually is called as InfoPath forms with managed code or the InfoPath forms managed templates.
The problem: If it’s just a couple of InfoPath forms with simple code behind we can deploy the form using the InfoPath Forms Client [...]

How to show the forms library item data to which workflow is attached in the infopath based task form

I have an infopath forms library list in my SharePoint site. (Forms library is basically a document library whose content type is of InfoPath forms type or xml document type) This list holds the request forms which end users submit using the browser based infopath form.
I have my custom workflow developed in VS 2005 attached [...]

InfoPath cannot connect to a data source when viewed in browser – Cross Domain Issues – Universal Data Connection

InfoPath cannot run the specified query.
InfoPath cannot connect to the data source.
Access is denied.

One of the big issues with InfoPath Forms is its error reporting. It could sometimes piss you off. It says there is a problem that is it! We have to spend lot of time clicking and clicking and clicking buttons all over [...]

InfoPath Forms 2007: Web Service – Change URL – Fix URL – URL Problem

Today I had this weird problem: I downloaded a custom workflow sample which has an InfoPath form. The infopath form has a data source which retrieves using a web service. Since the form was already designed the web service URL used to set up the ‘Retrieve data source’ was some what like : http://localhost/_vti_bin/ExternalSystemService.asmx?WSDL
Even [...]