SharePoint Integration

Re: Form Library fields not updating when I re-publish updated form template to SharePoint…

Hilary Stoupa — Thu, 22 Sep 2016 14:57:45 GMT

If you need to rename columns, you'll have to remove the promoted properties and re-add them, unfortunately....

Re: Form Library fields not updating when I re-publish updated form template to SharePoint…

Rehab — Thu, 22 Sep 2016 09:07:51 GMT

I've have the same issue. I need to edit the form library without losing the library columns.

Could we've a solution.

Rehab,

Re: Form Library fields not updating when I re-publish updated form template to SharePoint…

Gennady Vanin (Геннадий Ванин, Новосибирск) — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 04:45:07 GMT

First of all, I would have published a new template with another name as well as backup-ed existing XML existing data forms because you might loose data in them.

Tim5590:
My issue is that I’m trying to update several fields (names) in my browser enabled form template and re-publish them to the form library that my forms are stored in

And in order to update previously saved XML data forms according your new template, you should

relink previous XML forms to a new form template

and then re-save all previous XML data forms.

Form Library fields not updating when I re-publish updated form template to SharePoint…

Tim5590 — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 19:39:12 GMT

Hello everyone,

My issue is that I’m trying to update several fields (names) in my browser enabled form template and re-publish them to the form library that my forms are stored in.

Background Information:

Form template (Browser enabled) created by MS InfoPath 2007 and is published to a SharePoint (MOSS 2007) Form Library. I was unable to save the template as a content type!! The data source consists of fields that I created within InfoPath. The template itself has over 250 fields in it. All of those fields are then published to my SharePoint Form Library.

With that said, there are several fields that I need to delete and others that I need to change the field names. Example: “CBNA” field needs to be changed to “UCCB.” All the fields I need to update (change the field name) are check box controls. Check box properties are as follows: Value when cleared = No and Value when checked = Yes. I need to do this without losing the previous data that is already in the submitted forms.

I recently did a test by changing the field name of “Credit Bureau” and changed it to “Credit Bureau CBR”, but after I published the from template and looked at the form library columns it did not publish the “Credit Bureau CBR” field. I opened a form that had “Credit Bureau” checked previously and the box was unchecked. However, when I checked the updated field “Credit Bureau CBR” and saved the form, it shows “Yes” in the old Credit Bureau field/column in the form library. Any suggestions on how to update these fields without getting errors opening previously submitted forms and have the updated field names publish to the form library correctly?

FYI… I do not use SPD and I don’t have programming experience. Only out of the box InfoPath and SharePoint.

Thanks,

Tim