Edit Form & Relink SharePoint form library

[Nottslanding]

I edited a form, adding a field. I published it to the SharePoint library. I
relinked all forms. The forms work properly, but all my views got wiped out.

#1 - did I need to relink all the forms in order to make that field
available to all views, filters, etc?
#2 - I had to mark the check box for each form to relink. Is there any way
to mass-relink?
#3 - The publish itself to the form library really wiped out my views. I
had to recreate all views. Can you think of something that I might have done
wrong there?

 

[Anuma (GGK Tech)]

HI,

In sharepoint2007, all promoted Properties will be refreshed when ever we
publish the new Build to the library. Because of this all views will be wiped
out. We have one option to overcome this issue. Please follow the steps below
while publishing Build to sharepoint site.

1.Take the backup for your “template.xsn†file from published location.
(build which is already there in the SharePoint)
2.Open template in design mode and extract files.
3.Open manifest.xsf in editor mode.
4.Search for the keyword "listPropertiesExtension".
5.Copy the complete node for "listPropertiesExtension".
6.Open the new manifest.xsf in editor mode
7.And replace “listPropertiesExtension†node with old
listPropertiesExtension node(Which is copied in step 5).
8.Saved new manifest.xsf and close.
9.Open manifest in design mode and publish to SharePoint.

Note: Make sure that we are changing in manifest.xsf we have one back up
file. If something is wrong then we can use back up manifest.xsf file.