InfoPath Dev

Hi, You should take a look at our Database Accelerator (DBXL) software for InfoPath and SQL.  DBXL is a generic webserivce that will allow you to easily map your data from InfoPath to SQL including the repeating data.  DBXL is a fast and easy way to do this and also a better way to integrate InfoPath and SQL compared to the native ...

Is it really an issue though?  Even if they edit the template they will do so locally, they don't have access to your SharePoint site so they won't be able to publish that template back to your SharePoint.  They will send you back an XML.  I guess the corner case here would be a user saving the template and editing and then ...

you might be able to use a calucated field or something to create the hyperlink though? 

Hi Phil, Take a look at Shirz's blog here: http://www.infopathdev.com/blogs/shiraz/archive/2007/08/16/best-way-to-launch-forms-from-web-pages.aspx I think the issue is that just a link to the template.xsn isn't ideal for IE/InfoPath.  In Shirz's blog he talks about the proper way to open a form that forces it to open in InfoPath ...

Hi Ron, We have a lot of customers who contact us about our Database Accelerator (DBXL) product which is a generic web service that will allow you to sumbit your InfoPath data to SQL, it handles the duplicate issue you are talking about. While what you want to do can be done with InfoPath (an possibly custom code) you might find an off the shelf ...

What version of SharePoint do you have?  If you have SharePoint Enterprise then you will have "InfoPath Form Services" which is a browser version of InfoPath. If you have the browser version of InfoPath your scenario should work.  You will want to add a people picker to your form and then promote that field so that your view ...

Are you using InfoPath form services (browser forms) in MOSS 2007?  There are some limitations with images in MOSS 2007 browser forms, perhaps that is the issue you are running into?

Hi David, Have you tried re-linking the documents in SharePoint after you publish the new template?  Ted

Hi dspayne, How many webservers are there in the environment where the install is returning this error? Does the admin account you are installing with on the other farm have permissions to create DB's in the target SQL DB? Ted

Hi, What you are running into is one of the limitations of SharePoint - the repeating data from your XML form can only be shown in the ways that you mentioned - if they are interger fields you can do some additional numeric functions (like total). What you need to do is to get that repeating data into a database so you can do the reporting on ...