Sunday, September 28, 2014

Upgrade Infopath Forms

RE-PUBLISH INFOPATH FORMS

  1. Download the infopath form from the current job library, on the upgraded site.
  2. Right click on the downloaded xsn file and open the form in design mode.
  3. Click on File -> Publish -> Export Source ( to a local folder).
  4. Access the local folder where the source is stored and locate the manifest.xsf.
  5. Right click on the manifest.xsf file and open it in notepad.
  6. In the notepad, find for the url of current site and replace it with the url of the upgraded site.
  7. For example:-
  8. Replace http://apdc.oneabbott.com/showcase/workflow/BTR2020 with http://team.oneabbott.com/showcase/workflow/BTR2020
  9. Save the manifest.xsf.
  10. Right click on the manifest.xsf file and open it in the design mode.
  11. Execute the below steps for each data source added to the infopath (from the Manage Data source section).
    • Click on Manage data source link form the infopath.
    • Click on the first data source and click Modify.
    • Continue to click “Next” until the dialog display the parameters to be passed to the web service calls.
    • Verify if the url of the current site is passed as one of the parameters. If so, then replace the url with the url of the upgraded site.
  12. Save the changes to the data source and also to the manifest.xsf.
  13. Click File -> Publish -> Sharepoint library
  14. From the publish dialog select the ‘Current Job” library and publish the form.


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