Re: Separating attachments from InfoPath 2007 browser enabled forms

ligeshkoshy — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:42:20 GMT

Thanks for your replies . I got some workarounds from it and built my solution.

Workaround

Add a attachment control in the InfoPath form. I had a submit button which submits the document in a specified document library and returns a link from it which gets added up in a textbox in the InfoPath form . In the design mode the textbox is changed to hyperlink. When it form is deployed we can see the textbox is viewed as a hyperlink.

Bits of code to detach the file, place it in document library , get a link value to the hyperlink converted textbox.

char[] charFileName = System.Text.UnicodeEncoding.Unicode.GetChars(fnBytes);string fileName = new string(charFileName);

fileName = fileName.Substring(0, fileName.Length - 1);

// The file is located after the header, which is 24 bytes long

// plus the length of the filename.

byte[] fileContents = new byte[attachmentNodeBytes.Length - (24 + fnLength)];for (int i = 0; i < fileContents.Length; ++i)

{

fileContents[i] = attachmentNodeBytes[24 + fnLength + i];

}

string SiteAttachURL = _strDocLibURL + strReqID + "_" + fileName;

Add it to document library

SPSite siteCol = null;

SPWeb curSite = null;

siteCol = new SPSite("url of root site);

curSite = siteCol.OpenWeb();

curSite.AllowUnsafeUpdates = true;

curSite.Files.Add(SiteAttachURL, fileContents);

Add link in the hyperlink converted textbox

XPathNavigator nav1 = MainDataSource.CreateNavigator().SelectSingleNode("/my:myFields/my:secContentView/my:secContent/my:secAttachments/my:templateURL", NamespaceManager);

nav1.SetValue(SiteAttachURL);

Code to Detach document from the InfoPath attachment control can be follwed from the below link

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/ssa/archive/2008/01/15/infopath-delete-file-attachments-programmatically-c.aspx

Please check whether you have appropriate permissions to add a document to the document library and add AllowUnsafeUpdates = true;

Re: Separating attachments from InfoPath 2007 browser enabled forms

Anuma — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 07:24:30 GMT

Hi,

Can you verify below link.

http://www.infopathdev.com/files/folders/examples/entry29401.aspx

http://www.qdabra.com/en/products/qRules.aspx

Separating attachments from InfoPath 2007 browser enabled forms

ligeshkoshy — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 06:14:31 GMT

We have a requirement in the project to separate the attachment embedded in the InfoPath 2007 browser enabled form to be saved in a MOSS 2007 document library with only the link between them saved in the InfoPath form to improve performance.

We need to have the approach like Opening a Excel template or a Web form(aspx page) on button click. Can it be done through XMLFormView , and will it have improved performance than embedding the attachment in the InfoPath 2007 form itself.

Any input is appreciated.

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