re: Allow Offline Use of a SharePoint List by Caching Locally

Matt Faus — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:58:50 GMT

Hi Lalato,

Sorry for the late reply. One catch with this tutorial is that data stored in a secondary data connection is not saved across sessions. So, each time you open InfoPath, the data in the 2DS is reverted to how it was when the template was originally created.

There is no way to edit the template to include the new data at runtime, so the only way you could refresh the data in the 2DS is to design the template, update the 2DS, and then publish the new version.

This tutorial is best for lists that do not change much, or when offline is not a terribly common scenario. However, if you are using InfoPath 2007, there are some built-in mechanisms that allow offline functionality without all the heavy work described above!

office.microsoft.com/.../HA101569041033.aspx

re: Allow Offline Use of a SharePoint List by Caching Locally

Lalato — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:08:21 GMT

Matt, when I try this it works great. However, the new data does not seem to stay. When I open the form again, the old data is there and I have to hit refresh again.

Is that the way it's supposed to be?

re: Allow Offline Use of a SharePoint List by Caching Locally

Lalato — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:04:25 GMT

This is great. Thanks!

--sam