Publishing Data-Bound InfoPath Templates to WSS

You can share InfoPath templates and forms with WSS users by publishing the TemplateName.xsn file to a document library of a WSS site. It's a good practice to create a new form library for each template. The library stores each form that users generate and save.

To publish the NWCustEdit.xsn template you created in the earlier "Designing an InfoPath Query and Data Editing Form" section or one the sample templates from your Program Files\Seua11\Chaptr26 folder, do the following:

1. Open the TemplateName.xsn template in InfoPath design mode.

2. Choose File, Publish to start the InfoPath Publishing Wizard. Click Next.

3. In the second Wizard dialog, select the To a SharePoint Form Library option, and click Next.

4. In the third dialog, accept the Create a New Form Library option, and click Next.

5. Type in the fourth dialog the URL for your WSS site, http://localhost for this example, and click Next.

6. Type the name and a brief description of the template in the fifth dialog, and click Next.

7. The sixth dialog lets you specify query or data columns as column names on the WSS site. This feature isn't required, so click Next to publish the template.

8. The seventh dialog lets you send email announcements to users about the new form's availability. Mark the Open This Form from Its Published Location check box, and click Close to dismiss the Wizard and open the new form library page.

9. Click the Fill Out This Form button, and acknowledge the two "ADO Warning" messages to open an empty form. For this example, execute a query to populate the form.

   Tip

   Reset IE's Security options for the Intranet Zone to Low if you want to prevent the two "ADO Warning" messages from appearing each time you click the Fill Out This Form button or open a form.

10. Press Ctrl+S to open the Save As dialog, which incorporates parts of the form library page (see Figure 26.50).

    Figure 26.50. Type a filename for the form in the Save As window.

    

11. Click Save to add the form to library and click the All Forms link to refresh the list.

12. Open the drop-down list for the form to display the available WSS form operations (see Figure 26.51).

    Figure 26.51. After you click the All Forms link to refresh the form library, the form you saved appears in the list.