InfoPath Dev

Hi,

I have uploaded a data connection file (UDCX) to my sharepoint server's Central Admin using STSADM. 

However, in the InfoPath form designer when I go to Data Connections >> Add >> Search for connections on MOSS >> http://MossServer:8000  no data connection files are found.

 Am I missing something? How do you reference a centrally managed data connection file?

Many thanks

Is the data connection library at this top level? Can you see it in SharePoint?

You should be able to browse but would need to navigate to the correct level.

I have exactly the same problem

my sharepoint server : serverx with the central administration on serverx:8000

my database server (sql server 2005) : servery

I upload udcx file to 'application management > Infopath Forms Services > Manage Data Conecction Files' and check the 'Allow HTTP access to this file'.

I open infopath and i go to Tools > DataConnections then i add 'http:serverx:8000' for searching udcx file but this message is show :

No data connection libraries were found on the specified site.

It's been a while since I fixed this, but this is how I went about it:

1. Created my local InfoPath form. 
2. Created the connections
3. Made the connections UDCXs
4. Using advanced options, made them centrally managed UDCXs
5. Uploaded the UDCXs to central admin's DCL
6. Uploaded the InfoPath form to Central Admin and activated it to the selected site collection
7. I don't think the form will be able to contact the UDCX when you're designing it locally, think you have to test it when deployed to sharepoint
8. There's probably more faffing about than I can remember, but that should in theory work

Hope that helps somewhat.

Data connection files are completely useless.  They do give you the ability to update a web service URL without republishing your form.  However, they lock you into the location of the data connection library... FOREVER!  Just try to update the location where a form references a data connection file.  You can't do it.  Republishing will not help you here.  The only way you can change the location is to delete the connection, add a new one, and rebuild all form logic related to the connection.  You can get around this at runtime by using a centrally managed library, but at design time, InfoPath will always look for the file in the original local library where you first referenced it.  That means any time you need to update a data connection, maybe to add a field, the original library on the original development box has to be accessible.  If the original library is not there, you can trick InfoPath into thinking it is by using the Hosts file.  Is it just me, or does this defeat the point of using a config file?