Reusing data from last year’s form - InfoPath Dev Sign in | Join | Help in Newbie Questions InfoPath (Entire Site) InfoPath Dev InfoPath Dev is dedicated to bringing you the information and tools you need to be successful in your Microsoft Office InfoPath development projects. Home Blogs Forums Photos Downloads InfoPath Dev » InfoPath » Newbie Questions » Reusing data from last year’s form Reusing data from last year’s form Last post 06-19-2007 07:30 AM by Diana Griffin. 2 replies. Page 1 of 1 (3 items) Sort Posts: Oldest to newest Newest to oldest Previous Next 06-15-2007 01:42 PM Diana Griffin Joined on 06-15-2007 Charleston SC Posts 2 Reusing data from last year’s form Reply Contact I created an InfoPath form that collected employee information such as work experience and education, is there a way to pull that information into a new form so that the employees don’t have to re-type all of that again? The current forms are being stored on SharePoint and the old InfoPath form is corrupt so I have to make a new form. Thanks for your feedback Diana Griffin Filed under: infopath, sharepoint 06-19-2007 12:09 AM In reply to Ted Fitch Joined on 02-27-2006 Posts 567 Re: Reusing data from last year’s form Mark as Not AnswerMark as Answer... Reply Contact Hi Diana,Yes you can use the old SharePoint library as a secondary data source for that information.Why is the form corrupt? Have you tried to extract the xsn from SharePoint to see if you can recover that? Or is that where it is corrupt? 06-19-2007 07:30 AM In reply to Diana Griffin Joined on 06-15-2007 Charleston SC Posts 2 Re: Reusing data from last year’s form Mark as Not AnswerMark as Answer... Reply Contact we had to add a dll and the form is not accessible. What are the steps to use the old SharePoint library as a secondary data source? Diana Griffin Page 1 of 1 (3 items) Copyright © 2003-2019 Qdabra Software. All rights reserved.View our Terms of Use.
I created an InfoPath form that collected employee information such as work experience and education, is there a way to pull that information into a new form so that the employees don’t have to re-type all of that again? The current forms are being stored on SharePoint and the old InfoPath form is corrupt so I have to make a new form.
Thanks for your feedback
Hi Diana,
Yes you can use the old SharePoint library as a secondary data source for that information.
Why is the form corrupt? Have you tried to extract the xsn from SharePoint to see if you can recover that? Or is that where it is corrupt?
we had to add a dll and the form is not accessible. What are the steps to use the old SharePoint library as a secondary data source?