I am doing some research into migrating simple content from Lotus Notes to an InfoPath form in SharePoint. I can already transform the basic design on a Lotus Notes form to an InfoPath form. I can already do the content migration manually.
I am doing some research into migrating simple content from Lotus Notes to an InfoPath form in SharePoint. I can already transform the basic design on a Lotus Notes form to an InfoPath form. I can already do the content migration manually.
Hi rhrempel,
I need to create a InfoPath form programatically. i.e., I dont want to design through MS InfoPath GUI and from visual studio designing method. Could you please help me on this? Which way should I start and how? I think as you have already done the research, you know it. Please help me.
I have a Beta solution written in Lotus Notes that can transform a Lotus Notes form to an InfoPath form. It’s not perfect though. You would still have to finish it up in InfoPath: hide-when properties, code, minor formatting. I’m hoping my company (Binary Tree) will include it in the next release of their application migration product. So I can’t send it out to anyone just yet.
It took months to build this and make it work; so it’s not something that can be done easily.
If you like, send me a Notes form (in a Notes DB) and I’ll transform it quickly with the solution. Then I’ll send it back. You can let me know what you think.
Thank you for reply,
I do not need to migrate the lotus notes form to infopath. I just want to create any type of infopath template form programatically.
Regards,
Pradip Shrestha
Thank you for the clarification. You should be able to create a solution that automatically creates InfoPath forms.
You may want to look at the following posts I have:
How do I make a xsn file and what goes in it
What goes in the manifest.xsf file
Some other manifest.xsf entries
You need to create several xml and xsl files. Then zip them together like a cab file to make the XSN file. What goes into the xml and xsl files will be the difficult work. There is some good explanation in Microsoft’s MSDN site. I also have a good book titled Designing Forms for Microsoft Office InfoPath and Forms Services 2007 (Microsoft .NET Development Series).
I hope this helps.
Thank you rhrempel
Hello ramphal,
I have some problem regarding attachment. I think you can solve my problem. I have a image attached to the infopath document (form) in Form Server. I want to display this image in rich text field of same document. Can I do this? How? If you have some idea please share with me
I did not think it was possible to display an image in a rich text field in an InfoPath form using Forms Server. See the following link for details:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/infopath/HP100819451033.aspx
What you could do is upload the image separately into an attachment list and then embed the URL that references it into the rich text field. You might also be able to use the File Upload control.