InfoPath Dev

Hi,

I have created some forms using Infopath2007 and published them to sharepoint server2007 where office forms server is running. I have created a portal(in Java) from which I need to access these forms.

My form has got some fields and a submit button which submits the form to a webservice. That means, I'm not saving the filled form instance to sharepoint server; just submitting the form to webservice so that I could do some manipulation with the data. But I need to display these forms to users. Is there any way to merge the form data(the field values) with the template so that the filled form is displayed.

I'm new to this and any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance
Jenz

Hi Jenz,
You could add a dual submit to the Web service first and then to SharePoint. Or, you could send the entire form as an xml string to the web service and have it archive it in a database or on SharePoint (our Qdabra DBXL accelerator web service does this). You can also use the merge option to display the data onload. That will require a custom xsl. We've done a couple of those before. If you only have 5-10 parameters, I'd say that's viable. Otherwise, I'd go with the roundtrip since then you have 100% datatype fidelity. Otherwise, the parameters coming out of the Web service will be slightly different and that could cause problems especially if you want to stream back something like an image attachment later.

I hope this helps!

Thanks a lot. I'm new to this and so i request your help again. Based on your answer, I have a doubt.

1)How do we use the merge option to display the data onload?
I have the template and the values of each field in the template. I need to merge the field values with each field in the template.

Will you please explain the steps required.

Thanks in advance
Jenz