InfoPath Dev

I need InfoPath to release the lock on a file without actually closing infopath.

My users use InfoPath to edit XML files. They want to view these files in a browser at the same time... Side-by-side.

Except once you save changes in InfoPath, InfoPath takes an exclusive lock on the file and nothing else can read the changes.

Is there any way to convince InfoPath to either not lock the file, or at least release the file without closing the app/doc?

Thanks,

-Mark

Hi,

Sorry but I don't think that is possible Infopath lock his files when he is open! It's rules for that the user can't modify it and make trouble!

Imagine that your user modify the xml infopath crash in all the case! I know that you wan't only see it!
What you can do is a button that send an image of your xml at this time!

or you can make a each change an onafterchange event that send the xml file in a webseervice and generate an aspx page that reload every times that the webservice is call!

But if you want to see the template.xml in each second you can forget!

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Thierry

I don't understand; why are you using InfoPath to edit XML?

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Matt Faus

Matt,
Isn't that what InfoPath is for? (sincere question) I mean it's a data editor, and XML is data. I have users that need to edit the data but have no experience with editing XML.

Is there a better "super-friendly" editor for XML?

The big picture is that the XML files contain structured "content." This content is created/edited by typists, not geeks. The content is stored as XML and then transformed with XSLT so that it can be viewed in a browser. Storing the content in XML allows us to completely separate the content from the design.

The fact that the editors can't quickly switch back and see their rendered content without closing Infopath is the only major flaw in our otherwise well-executed plan of making this part of the job easier.

I would be thrilled if there were a button in InfoPath to "Release" the lock... sort of like the "Apply" button we see on windows dialogs.

-Mark

Ok, now I see. When you said "edit XML files" I thought you meant you were reading in a file, displaying it in a textbox field on an InfoPath form, having users edit the raw XML and trying to save it back out. Nevermind, haha.



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Matt Faus

Anybody found a way how to release exclusive lock without closing Infopath.

Will appreciate any ideas or maybe custom code? Thanks