InfoPath Dev

G'day,

 I'm trying to use the versions webservice to get the current form's version history and display it in a read only format. Am I going about this in the correct way or is there a better way to accomplish my goal?

 Thanks in advance!

Hi The Todd and welcome!

What's your goal? Seriously, if it works for ya, great!

Thanks! I'm sorry, I'm trying to use the webservice, but I'm not having any success getting it to work correctly. That's why I was asking if there was a better way to accomplish this. I'm sure it's some little thing i'm missing. When I try to add the webservice connection it asks for a sample value. I've tried entering the filename and different forms of a filepath with no luck. It seems very straightforward. Devil's in the details right? haha

sample values I've tried:
http://servername/sitename/list/filename.xml
list/filename.xml
filename.xml

Also, when I changed the path. I changed the webservice address accordingly for example: (I wasn't sure if it would make a difference)

http://servername/sitename/_vti_bin/versions.asmx
http://servername/sitename/listname/_vti_bin/versions.asmx

Thanks again,

 Todd

From MSDN, for Versions.GetVersions:

Parameters

A string that contains the site-relative URL of the file in the form Folder_Name/File_Name.

So, your list/filename.xml should be correct, if that is the relative URL.

However, when I tried this, I found that I had to URL encode my relative path. So instead of Shared Documents/filename.xml, it had to be Shared%20Documents/filename.xml.

All that being said, just because we can create a data connection in InfoPath successfully to a web service, doesn't mean that we are going to get back anything that InfoPath can use - the data connection I created could probably have the returned data accessed programatically, but the XSD created by InfoPath just goes to a group level.

Thanks Hilary! That worked!

So now that I have the data connection.. I have a structure for the webservice that looks like this: (all icons in the tree are folders with locks on them except for the fileName, which has a file-icon)

• MyFields
• queryFields
• ns3:GetVersions
• fileName (file icon)
• dataFields
• ns3:GetVersionsResponse
• GetVersionsResult

Is there a way to pass the current filename into the service and pull the version history data out for that file?

I'm a bit new to this and I'm just trying to grasp how it works with the webservice.

Thank you