InfoPath Dev

Hi, Yes the permissions need to be managed in the SharePoint document library.  I believe you should be able to customize permissions for the document library so that users can ADD new items only and have no other rights (like edit or delete).  There is a way to customize permissions in SharePoint. Ted

Did Hilary's question help solve this issue?

The 255 charachter limit causes problems in SharePoint, Access and other MS products.  This may be a bug in Excel actually or it could be by design for some reason.  Glad you have a workaround though.

Hi Kasper, Are you exporting directly from InfoPath to Excel or from SharePoint to Excel? Also, after you "fix" the issue in Excel does all the text actually show?  Ted

Hi Purri, While the file attachment control in InfoPath is a great feature it can really cause performance problems in your forms.  What you are experiencing is due to the file attachments in the form and connecting over the WAN (higher latency with your mobile users).  InfoPath is going to store those file attachments as base64 ...

Hi, Have you reviewed this article from Microsoft that explains how to deign your form for offline use? http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/infopath-help/design-a-form-template-for-offline-use-HA010211739.aspx The offline scenario is one of InfoPath's big advantages! Hope that helps Ted

Hi arangas, I too can repro this in Chrome.  I have asked one of our developers to look at this and see if we can enable it although it may be out of our control! Ted

Hi Holland, with a web service like DBXL you can submit your XML blob files to the DBXL web service and then using the mapping tool included with DBXL map the data to SQL. DBXL can be used with mobile forms.  While it is a 3rd party tool this is a viable solution for many of our customers who need to get XML data into SQL.  You can find ...

Since you are using SharePoint the user can export to Excel right from the document library in SharePoint. If you have repeating data in your form though you will need to use a web service to submit the from XML to a SQL DB to do reporting (and then export from SQL to Excel) We have a tool called DBXL which can help you get the data into ...

Could you add SharePoint only to calculate the value for that library? You could then add the field to the form and onload copy that from the library in SharePoint into the form (if you need it in the XML) otherwise you could just have one colum in SharePoint with the calucated value.