Can an infopath browser enabled for be rendered as email?

[jon]

I'm familiar with the feature of emailing an infopath form. I'm working in
an environment with MOSS, and am looking for some ways to allow workflow
alerts (email messages) to be more streamlined. Our form is deployed as a
browser enabled form to a MOSS form library.

Can the form generating the alert be embedded into the email message through
workflow? It seems like since it can be rendered as HTML that this should be
possible, I'm just not sure where to start.

We're using kerberos and have all MOSS locations set to automatically log
users on, so I'm thinking the workflow should be able to just render the form
directly in outlook.

Does anyone know if this is possible?

If not, can a hyperlink in the workflow kick off another workflow? (so, my
users are likely to do one of two or three things with the form...I could
make workflows to do those things if I had a way to initiate them from a
hyperlink in the email)

....and, I know...this seems kind of silly when users can just click a link
and open the form in the browser. Just trying to streamline the process!

 

[Clay Fox]

Hey Jon.

To render the form within Outlook is not really possible since it is not
actual HTML. The server has to render and translate the form so I do not
think there is anyway to place the form inside of Outlook, but there are
always way to streamline the process and you could possibly have hyperlinks
that performed functions.

Why don't you email me and we could look at some options.
I just completed a browser based form with workflow that may be a bit similar.
http://www.infopathdev.com/members/clayfox.aspx

 

[Gavin McKay]

Hi Jon,

If you are able to customise the email that is sent to clients, then I don't
see why you couldn't do one (or all) of:

1. create another InfoPath form that would kick off the next "process"
2. create a web app to achieve (1)
3. create a web service to achieve (1)

that way you can define which workflow process your user gets in their
email, and they are responsible for kicking off the next process. Of the
above, I think a web app would probably be the quickest (less InfoPath forms
to manage for one thing) but depends on what you need.

Gavin.