InfoPath Dev

I have an InfoPath 2007 form (not browser-based) published to a form library on a trusted MOSS 2007 site along with a SPD workflow that generates tasks.   When clicking the link to the form from within the form library, the InfoPath client form opens up just as expected and desired.   However, when clicking a link from another MOSS page (such as from a task completion form opened from within the task list) to the exact same form (the url from the task page is the same as the link to the form within the form library), I am prompted with the "Do you want to open or save" dialogue box.

Similarly, from the form library, when I right-click the form link and attempt to open it in a new tab, I am also prompted with the "Do you want to open or save" prompt.  Yet, when I simply left-click the link, the InfoPath client form loads up seamlessly.

Does anyone know of a solution for preventing the open or save dialogue?   I'd like to be able to have the InfoPath client form load up seamlessly from a link that I place on any page within my MOSS site...not just from the form library.

 Help Please!!

Under Toos -- > Form Options -- > Security and Trust -- > Use Full Trust and Sign this form template.

Thanks for the reply Eddy....the form actually is already signed and published with full trust.   Any other ideas? 

Does the xsn reside on the same library? If you open the xml on notepad on the top do you see something similar to:

 All I could think is that is does not find the template.

<?xml version="1.0"?><?mso-infoPathSolution productVersion="12.0.0" PIVersion="1.0.0.0" href="https://site/ny/yourxsn.xsn" name="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:infopath:Work-Authorization-Document:-myXSD-2007-03-14T19-33-50" solutionVersion="1.0.0.712" ?>

 

The site is https://mysite/sites/MI Req --  the xsn located at https://mysite/sites/MI Req/mireq.xsn -- the form library is at https://mysite/sites/MI Req/mireq.

The form's xml is:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><?mso-infoPathSolution solutionVersion="1.0.0.1569" productVersion="12.0.0" PIVersion="1.0.0.0" href="https://mysite/sites/mi%20req/mireq.xsn" name="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:infopath:mireq:-myXSD-2009-03-21T02-43-19" ?><?mso-application progid="InfoPath.Document" versionProgid="InfoPath.Document.2"?><my:myFields

I'm sure the xsn is found since when you click "open" from the "do you want to save or open" dialogue, the form opens just fine.   I just want to prevent the open or save dialogue from appearing in the first place....just as it doesn't appear when opening the form from the form library it's published to.

Thanks for all your help Eddy!

I'm only able to get the "Save Dialogue" when I re-publish the form without Full Trust.

Try the following.

1) Open the xsn on Design mode 2) File --> Fill Out Form  and Select the template on the center. Now try again. Wondering if is caching an older version of the xsn.

I've done as you suggested with the same result.   The form is definitely published with full trust (just re-published it and tried again) however the selected cert is self-signed.....do I require a code-signing cert perhaps?

I'm also using self signed certs, so that would not be a problem.

I never asked but are you opening the forms from the server or your local device? Do you get the same result from different locations? You might have to reinstall Infopath.

The forms are on a public-facing MOSS 2007 server and I'm accessing from a client PC.  I'm using basic authentication with SSL. 

The same InfoPath app is also on a client's MOSS server in their corporate environment (a new from-scratch install on a newly imaged server) .... they get the "do you want to open or save" prompt there as well however the app is published with domain trust.   I'll republish in their environment tonight with full trust and a self-signed cert to see if the problem persists.    With luck it's only within my environment!

Do you have a proxy like ISA? that could be blocking it.

No proxy either!

 

I published with a self-signed cert and full trust to my client's freshly-installed corporate MOSS server.....unfortunately it has the same result.   Not sure if this is an Infopath issue at this point or whether it's a MOSS/IIS issue.

Eddy, if you get a chance, can you check what happens in your environment if you right-click an InfoPath document link from the form library and select "Open in a new tab" or "Open in a new window"?   In my environment, I also get the "Do you want to open or save..." dialogue popping up.  It would seem to me this result is likely related to why I cannot open the link to the InfoPath form from the MOSS task list or any other page in my site.

Any other ideas?

 

If I click on the infopath document from the library, I do not get prompted with the Open or save dialog. If I right click on the infopath doc. and open on new tab I get prompted to Open or save the xml.

If you are on MOSS Enterprise why not use form services?

The specific form in question requires cascading dropdowns and embedded picture images that forms services unfortunately do not support.   I had considered forms services knowing I'd have to use custom web services (or other code-based solution) but when I looked at the available options for handling embedded images, the available solutions were far from optimal.   Sooooo, ended up sticking with client forms.

I believe 2010 supports cascading dropdowns so hopefully it will better handle embedded images in browser-based forms!

I don't have an aswer for you.. but a work around to the problem is have the client open the form using Firefox. The new tab option works fine using Firefox.