Newbie Questions

Re: Emailing Browser Enabled InfoPath Forms

infopathnewbie02 — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 20:15:51 GMT

Ok, thanks to both of you for your help.

Re: Emailing Browser Enabled InfoPath Forms

Patrick Halstead — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 19:03:24 GMT

IE supports XML and there are options to read the XML in the browser but it's not out-of-the-box. Editing forms requires SharePoint or another third party application.

Re: Emailing Browser Enabled InfoPath Forms

infopathnewbie02 — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 18:53:09 GMT

So you're saying a PC without InfoPath can't just open an .xml file in Internet Explorer or Firefox? Instead they need to be directed to a Sharepoint site?

Re: Emailing Browser Enabled InfoPath Forms

ErnestoM — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 12:14:16 GMT

If you email the xml form it will open with whatever the user's machine is set to open xml files. You'd need to check the file association for each machine.

You can't open an xml attachment in IPFS. In order to do that, the user needs the URL that points to the browser enabled SharePoint library.

Emailing Browser Enabled InfoPath Forms

infopathnewbie02 — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 17:36:20 GMT

I have created a form in InfoPath that I would like to email to a list of recipients as an attachment. Some of these recipients may have InfoPath installed and some will not. They MAY all have Outlook, but not positive about that either. Can I email the form as an attachment that will open in InfoPath if they have it, and in IE if not?