Publish vs. Upload

J

Jeffshex

I see that publishing creates a "template" along with a whole bunch of other
junk in the folder, where as just uploading the form works almost the same.
I have a status report that people will fill out. It will need to go on the
sharepoint site, but i don't quite get the difference or benefits of
publishing and uploading.
Any advice?
 
A

Alex [MSFT]

In order for your users to be able to fill out the form, it must be
published. Simply uploading it won't work - it will not create the form
library.

I'm not quite sure what you mean by "publishing creates the template along
with other junk". What kind of junk are you referring to?

Thank you,
Alex
 
J

Jeffshex

It has the template and a few other files as well when you publish it, plus
you can only do one template per folder otherwise it tries to overwrite it.
If I just upload it, when users open it up, it opens under the fill out mode
and people can fill it out and submit it.
It seems weird publishing it...I don't understand the point of the template
and the other files..how are people supposed to know what to click on to open
up the form?
That make any sense?
 
R

Renee in Juneau

Wow, that's pretty odd. When I publish a form to sharepoint, only the
form shows up.

It sounds like, when you publish, you're getting all the components of
the XSN package stored separately...welcome to bizarro world!

You *are* publishing the form to a form library, right?

Try publishing it again, to a new form library, and let the publishing
process take care of creating the form-lib.
 
J

Jeffshex

Now when I try to publish to the form library, Infopath says it completed,
but now there is nothing there at all?
What's going on?
 
J

Jeffshex

I see in explorer view that it created a form folder that contains the
template and other files for it....but it didn't put the form people fill out
in the Folder it created.
hmm.
 
R

Renee in Juneau

Yes, there should be a number of files in the "forms" subfolder if
you're looking at it in explorer view. The one you care about right
now is called "Template.XSN". If you see that in "Forms", it should be
okay.

Everytime somebody fills out a form (by clicking on "Fill Out This
Form" from the toolbar) it should default to being saved to this
library. When a new item is created, it'll show up as an XML file in
the explorer window.....so you don't see anything in the main library
dir because nobody has filled out the form yet.

Check it out by filling out a sample form (AND saving it) to see for
yourself.
 
J

Jeffshex

Ok, I see. I'm thinking my folder will be empty, because I disabled the save
feature on my Infopath form. The form submits directly to a database so I
should be good to go.
Thanks for your help.
 
I

Ivor Davies

I have a somewhat similar situation. I have a user who has completed InfoPath
forms (with data - about 80 of them) that were saved to a file share on a
server (UNC Path).

I have recently created a sharepoint site for the user and published the
form template to a forms library.

The question is how to I get the existing forms that have completed with
valid data into the same forms library.

Do I upload OR do I open each one up and publish the form (with data) to the
same forms library?

Please advise...

Thank You very much...

Ivor
 
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