SharePoint Integration

Re: Migrating InfoPath forms

tenbao — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 23:20:28 GMT

That's too bad. It's a bit of a hassle, but not too much. Was just curious if there was a way to avoid it. Thanks for looking into it.

Re: Migrating InfoPath forms

Hilary Stoupa — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 17:27:33 GMT

Sorry, I missed your follow up. Actually - yes, that is a problem and one I didn't think to talk about, I'm afraid. I don't know of a good way to prevent this - in the past, I've manually updated the GUIDs in the manifest (sounds awful but is really just a matter of getting the Prod template down and then copying the GUIDs to the dev template prior to publishing). In the project I'm referencing in the video we are using admin approved browser forms and haven't had an issue with the promoted properties because of this - if admin approving is an option it may reduce this headache for you.

Re: Migrating InfoPath forms

tenbao — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 17:09:29 GMT

Hi, does my description sound familiar?

Re: Migrating InfoPath forms

tenbao — Tue, 07 Oct 2014 18:43:58 GMT

I'm migrating the form from our DEV SharePoint server to our PROD SharePoint server. I noticed that when I publish in the past, the meta data for the fields are gone. When I look at the Field Promotion screen right before publish, it says that it will create new fields for each promoted field. So to prevent the loss of meta data, I go into each promoted field and map the InfoPath field to the SharePoint field. Hope that makes sense.

Re: Migrating InfoPath forms

Hilary Stoupa — Mon, 06 Oct 2014 22:01:49 GMT

Hi, I'm so glad you liked the webinar. What do you mean when you say "remap fields"? In my recent project where I used the SharePoint management shell to copy my site collection my workflow copied over as well and it just worked. It was so lovely. :)

Migrating InfoPath forms

tenbao — Mon, 06 Oct 2014 21:58:42 GMT

Hello, I just saw the Qdabra webinar "Create Forms That Move Easily from DEV to PROD: Qdabra InfoPath Webinar" taught by Hilary Stoupa and it was great. I was using the relative UDCX references, but never thought about using a relative config.xml file. I wasn't able to attend the original session, so I hope my questions can still be answered. 1. When a form template is updated in DEV and then published in PROD, I have to remap fields. Is there a way to avoid this? 2. What's the best way to migrate SharePoint designer workflows? Thanks for your help.