InfoPath Dev

Hi,

I am currently using DBXL2.3.  I have several Document Types. 

One Document Type I connected to Sharepoint during the beginning of the application roll out.  During this time we created about 6 documents. 

I then deleted the SharePoint mapping as I could acheive what was requested another way. The documents stayed in SharePoint form library, but 6 documents have continued to be used via DBXL/URLs. 

The form library with the original 6 documents (which are now out of date) still exists although only accessible by me.  I thought I would tidy up. 

The SharePoint mapping in DBXL was deleted about 6 months ago.  So I thought it would be ok to delete the documents in SharePoint, without deletion in DBXL.  I have tried it with one of the documents and this is not the case. The DBXL document has been deleted - which is not what I wanted.  In fact I am in a panic about how to retrieve/rebuild the data....

How can I delete the SharePoint form library without losing any more of my documents?

Is there any way of retrieving the data (I think I know the answer to that one.... but am asking out of desperation :))

Thank you

Catharine

It sounds as if you had propogate deletes turned on for the SharePoint mapping.  The deletion is handled via the DBXL listener, and is not removed if you delete the mapping.  To prevent the deletion, you will need to re-add the SharePoint mapping, and disable propogate deletes.  It will update the SharePoint form library to disable the delete propogation and then you can remove the SharePoint mapping and save again. 

I suggest exporting your documents from DBXL before deleting from SharePoint as an extra precaution.

SharePoint has a recycle bin which you may recover the SharePoint copy.  But if the SharePoint copy is out of date, you would need to restore the DBXL document from a database backup.