IP2010 Form with parameter - best option?

jboggs326 — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 03:29:39 GMT

Hello everyone!

Thank you for hosting this forum and allowing me to learn a lot about InfoPath. I've been able to learn and solve my newbie questions from reading the forums, but I am currently stuck and could really use some help. Here goes:

I’ve created an Infopath form in IP2010 which receives a parameter when invoked correctly, queries an access database, and displays one record for the user to edit. There's a Submit button that allows the changes to be updated to the access database. The form works great and is exactly what I need.

Now, I am trying to send out emails to my project managers (programmatically from Access2010) that will have a listing of their projects, each with a custom hyperlink to invoke this IPform. The hyperlink references the IP xsn file that has been published, with one parameter that indicates the project. I can’t get the hyperlink to work consistently.

I tried to publish the form to a network location and send the input parameters via a /inputparameters flag on the command line. I have come to learn that hyperlinks do not handle parameters at all.

I have tried to publish the IP form to my sharepoint server, and then use a call to the formserver.aspx to render the xsn ip form into Infopath Filler. When I invoke the hyperlink from a Word document (for testing purposes) it worked. When I tried to include the same hyperlink into a HTMLBody of an Outlook email, the formserver errors, with either “The form is Closed” or “This form must be a web enabled form”

The only reason I am going to the option of using the formerserver.aspx option is because it seems to be the only option that will accept a input argument that I can grab from the custom code in my form. The other options don’t seem to allow for me to pass a parameter.

Questions:

1) I would prefer to have my form on the network and hyperlink to the form with the /inputparameters flag. Can that actually work?

2) Why does the hyperlink work in Word, but won’t work from a HTML outlook email?

3) Is there an easier way to do this?

Thanks, in advance, for any assistance you can provide.

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IP2010 Form with parameter - best option?