InfoPath Dev

Hi all, 

I have developed a somple form that has a file attachment control.  The user can attach the form just fine.  When the form is submitted the department is receiving the form as we designed.  We have the field content embeded in the body of the message.   The prolem is that the attachment is not appearing.  The field control is there but no attachment.  What am I doing wrong?  Seems pretty straight forward.  Could it be getting stripped on the email servers?  If so what might a logical work around be.

Any assistance appreciated.

This would not be possible.

Embedded means it is just putting the view in the body of the email.

You would need to attach the form to the email, or what I prefer is to submit the form to SQL or Sharepoint and just send a hyperlink in the email.

The form would need to be opened in Infopath for the file attachment to be available.

Clay,

Thanks for the respose.   This makes sense.  So to confirm, you can still use the attachment control but set it so the file is an attachment along with the form.  Or, submit to a List.   I guess where I am puzzled is the email of the hyperlink after the attachment is posted to SP list.    How would you program this action on the form.  I just might be missing the logic :( 

Paul

Once it is submitted to sharepoint.

Switch to a new view which you create to be the body of the email.

Have a text field which has the URL to the form.

Concatenate the url to the library with the form name you are saving it with.

Then when it is received in email, Outlook will treat it like a hyperlink since it begins with http..

Clay, i am trying to implement your suggestion but the spaces in my file name are preventing the entire http:// string from rendering as a hyperlink. The link stops at the space. I have tried including a %20 in my concat string but it does not prevent the link from being formed incorrectly. Any idea on how I can fix this?

TIA
Dean

Hi,

Remove spaces from the file name while saving the form. Otherwise replace spaces with "_" in you file name while saving the form.

I have implemented this suggestion but now I have a new problem. The subject line is correct, but the Body of the email message is empty. I have tried this by switching to a new View that contains nothing but a Layout Table (Table w/Title) into which I put the text for the emial message and by putting text in the Introduction field of the data connection wizard. Neither of these approaches is working. Any idea why this text would not show up in the email?

TIA

Dean