InfoPath 2010

Re: Publishing form with code to site collection vs central administration

rmakto — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 18:48:17 GMT

Hi Hilary, Thank you for reading my long post and replying to me. I appreciate it. I uploaded one of the forms last week and experienced the same thing you said. Now, I know how it's done. Have a nice day! rmakto

Re: Publishing form with code to site collection vs central administration

Hilary Stoupa — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 15:50:24 GMT

Hi - if your template is published to Central Admin and then activated to various site collections, you will find a copy of the form template in each site collection's Form Templates library. Updating the template in Central Admin will then update the template in each site collection. The date difference you see has to do with when the feature was activated to the site collection, I believe.

You should update the template by redeploying to Central Admin. You should not need to reactive to each site collection - that should happen automatically.

Publishing form with code to site collection vs central administration

rmakto — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 17:36:15 GMT

Hi,

We have a SharePoint 2010 farm where we have many site collections with InfoPath 2010 code-behind forms, and I'm trying to update them based on requirements. The only environment we have is Production, so I'm afraid to experiment there. I didn't publish these forms myself and I'm new to publishing forms with code, so I'm trying to find out how they were published and how to make changes to them.

So, I have a few of questions regarding this.

1. I see that there are the same form templates in Form Templates library in every site collection and in Central Administration > Manage Form Templates. The only difference is the Modified date. It seems that it's different for the same form across all site collections. What is the difference between these two libraries? How and where a form with code is published? Can it be published in both places or only in one place?

2. I read that you can upload a form template to Central Administration and then activate it to a site collection. What happens when upload the new version of the form template and what happens when you activate it only to one of the site collections that have this template in the Form Templates library? I'm really confused about this. Can someone explain?

3. I have a requirement where I need to add new fields into the form and I see that they are not going to affect the code inside the form. Is there an easy way to just publish it directly to the site collection where I need it after I update the form, instead of uploading it to Central Administration and re-activating it to the site collection?

I appreciate your help!

rmakto