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Re: Infopath 2013 Submitting to a network folder

Denny — Sat, 18 Jul 2015 06:23:15 GMT

I'm new to InfoPath and interested on submitting a form to a network file system , so I played around and I was successful. I've created a data connection to a sharepoint, then modified the path with a \\network\xxx path which is a mix NAS share location that can be access from windows and Unix file systems. I've executed the form and recieived the xml file in the shared location many times. Here is my problem, after few successful tests, I decided to replace the path with another NAS share location and got "... is not http or https " errors. then I could not replicate the initial results any more even putting the same NAS path that worked before. Any ideas?

Re: Infopath 2013 Submitting to a network folder

Patrick Halstead — Sun, 02 Feb 2014 19:44:55 GMT

Hi Neil,

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If you purchase a pack, please email support (at) qdabra (dot) com with a copy of your form's template (XSN) along with instructions on when you would like the form to save to the network path and where that path is.

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Re: Infopath 2013 Submitting to a network folder

Neil Gabriel — Sun, 02 Feb 2014 19:11:33 GMT

How much code are we talking if be quite happy to have a go if I could find any info on it How would it cost me to use you guys ?

Re: Infopath 2013 Submitting to a network folder

Patrick Halstead — Sun, 02 Feb 2014 19:07:30 GMT

Hi Neil,

Well, you could just ask your users to manually save it there. :)

If it's a SharePoint document library, you don't need code either - just Submit to it.

You can also save to a file system location or network share using code and full trust setting (instead of qRules), but you'd have to write that yourself or hire us to do it. Probably less than one hour of work.

Cheers!

Re: Infopath 2013 Submitting to a network folder

Neil Gabriel — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 00:05:32 GMT

Is there really no other way to do this using infopath I find that hard to believe surly it's standard to want to send to a network location

Re: Infopath 2013 Submitting to a network folder

Hilary Stoupa — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 23:15:22 GMT

When your trial expires qRules will stop working in your form - so, give it a try, if you like it and it works for you, you can buy it and re-inject your template with the full version, no changes needed. If you aren't a programmer, it is a great way to add code-like features to your forms. We use it on all our internal forms here, rather than writing code for every form. It can save you a ton of time.

Re: Infopath 2013 Submitting to a network folder

Neil Gabriel — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 23:08:45 GMT

That's great thanks I will give this a go Do I have to purchase this to integrate it with info path after the trial ends

Re: Infopath 2013 Submitting to a network folder

Hilary Stoupa — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 22:58:09 GMT

You should try qRules - free trial here: http://www.qdabra.com/en/products/download/qRulesTrial.aspx

Then you won't have to write custom code - it has a SaveToPath command that could be used for this.

Re: Infopath 2013 Submitting to a network folder

Neil Gabriel — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 22:43:06 GMT

I thought as much Could you help me with the code sorry I am not a programmer :)

Re: Infopath 2013 Submitting to a network folder

Hilary Stoupa — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 22:37:54 GMT

The only way I know to do this would be to use code - and that is going to require your form be full trust, I'd think, since code that writes to the file system in InfoPath is only allowed in full trust forms.

Re: Infopath 2013 Submitting to a network folder

Neil Gabriel — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 21:56:59 GMT

Hummmm interesting surly there must be a way you can do everything else within this dam software :)

Re: Infopath 2013 Submitting to a network folder

kgf187 — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 20:01:30 GMT

Relatively new to InfoPath myself but I tried it and had the same results as you. My guess is that the reason that you don't get the option to configure a submit button to send the form back to a network folder is because you just as easily put it in a network folder by doing a "save as." Just my guess though.

Re: Infopath 2013 Submitting to a network folder

Neil Gabriel — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 19:22:00 GMT

Hi again thanks for your help I have totally grasped how to enable the users to fill out the form the only issue I am having is saving the form to a network folder The only options I get are sharepoint and a number of other options all I want is to save it too a basic folder on my network no more than that and it doesn't give me that option when setting up the buttons If you can prove me wrong feel free I don't have any experience in info path at all but I really need to get this working I spent a whole day on it yesterday and I am still none the wiser

Re: Infopath 2013 Submitting to a network folder

kgf187 — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 19:10:53 GMT

Using this method, users will have to navigate to the folder and select the form in order to fill it out. How the form is submitted depends on how you set up your submit options. You can set it to have the completed form distributed via email, to a SharePoint server etc. If you want to save it in a network folder, simply select save as.

Re: Infopath 2013 Submitting to a network folder

Neil Gabriel — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 17:52:50 GMT

Doesn't this method publish the form to enable users to access on the network drive I want the form to be sent to the relevant users via email which is fine and this this working however when the submit button is selected I want to save it to a shared folder on our server so this can be monitored Can this be done any ideas ?