InfoPath Dev

I am using the Form services buddled with Sharepoint 2007.  The Infopath has been published to the Form Library successfully and everything has been working fine; however, the only way to initiate the Infopath form in a Web browser is to create a new form in a Form Library of Sharepoint.  I am wondering if there is any way i could create a new instance of a Web Infopath form shown on a Web browser without using Sharepoint.

Anyone has any idea?

Thanks 

InfoPath only works in Browser mode from within SharePoint. You cannot run it outside of SharePoint. If you want the users to not have to navigate to it via SharePoint, then just copy the link genereated from SharePoint when createing a new browser form, and then paste that into some other web page.

Yes, you could paste the unique InfoPath URL from SharePoint as a link on an another page. However, the resulting submissions can still be tracked using the SharePoint library if required.

Thanks for your further input!

Hi Dankwanca,

If I am not mistaken, You really wanna to Open a published Infopath form outside Sharepoint Environment, Right?

Yes, You can do Open the Infopath forms inside .aspx pages.

XMLFormView is a special server control, that can display an infopath form(Published in any Location) inside .aspx pages.

You can get lots of documentation on XMLFormView control especially on MSDN .

Seem to have a problem getting the URl being talked about here to work .............When I move cursor over the New Item. the link i see is

https://remote.domain.com:987/ami/Timesheets/Forms/AllItems.aspx#  when i click it it opens the same page.

Am I missing something here ???

Open the form in the browser first, then get the URL.  It's a completely different URL that is derived by Forms Services.

Ahh ........Well that is one thing ...Does this require configuring Form Services at Central administration....................I ask this since I am running WSS 3.0 and I read somewhere online I cannot configure form Services and need a Enterprise version................. I am running this on Small Business Server 2008.

 The way I have uploaded the form is directly publishing to the form library on Sharepoint through MS Infopath 2007

Is there something I can (or cannot) do

Thanks

Uh, yeah, WSS is free.  Browser-enabled forms are only with MOSS Enterprise, which is 2 set of CALs above what you're doing.  The only other option is to purchase and install Forms Server, but I think that requires MOSS Standard.  You are pretty limited with free software.  I'm not sure that SBS08 is any restriction, though.

True.....i guess then thats it huh .......... i will have to deal with the  "New" button in the form Library ........and yeah it doesnt look like I am in for purchasing the Form server for now..........Later may be.

Thanks Man !